Utah

Mountain Bike Trail Guide

In my honest opinion, Utah is the most beautiful state in the USA, tied with Alaska. There is more beautiful riding, hiking, and just hanging out than anywhere I've been. I am starting with Moab, since it's the most popular area to ride. My favorite rides there are the Slickrock Trail and Porcupine Rim.

Utah General and Statewide Links

• Bike Utah's trails page
• A list of trails throughout the state (from Singletracktreks.com), also in an alphabetical list of trails
• mbronline.com
• Cycling Utah Mountain West Bicycling Journal
• Bert Nelson's Mountain Biking in Utah page
• more Utah trail descriptions

 

East

• Canyonlands National Park
  • Holiday Expeditions with four tour itineraries.
  • Mountain biking areas in Canyonlands
  • A wide variety of dirt road rides in Canyonlands
  • The famous White Rim Trail
    • a four-day itinerary with maps and mileage
• Moab
  • Moab Fruita March 2005 - Pictures from the Ogre Hut trip to Moab and Fruita March 2005.
  • Moab Area Trails from UtahMountainBiking.com. A little old, but well organized and easy to use.
  • Road to Moab
  • Philip Greenspun describes a trip to Utah, including a ride on Moab's famous Slickrock Trail
  • Utah.com on the Slickrock Trail
  • Arches, with a note on biking Moab from GORP
  • Moab advice from Outside Online
  • Slickrock and Porcupine Rim by Keith Flood
  • Altrec insider's guide to Moab
  • Moab for intermediate riders from Outside Online
  • gpstrailmaps.com free GPX format maps: Moab, Utah (Mecca for mountain bikers and 4 x4 drivers)
  • A nice road trip diary through Colorado and Moab by a coupla Kiwis!
  • Pics and write up from several trips to Moab by Mike Greiner (a bit old)
  • An even older Moab trip write-up by Tom Swenson
  • Undated, but old feeling, Moab trip write-up by Mark Weaver
  • 99 year history of Moab weather (archived at archive.org)
• A guided MTB tour from Grand Junction, Colorado to Moab from 1995

 

Southwest

• Southern Plateu Trails from UtahMountainBiking.com
• Brian Head
  • Brian Head Resort: The official web site
• Bryce Canyon National Park
  • Bryce-Zion Mountain Biking Trip report from 2001
• Cedar City
  • The Valley of the Gods loop at Cedar Mesa in southeastern Utah
• Panguitch
  • Mountain Bike Heaven's Panguitch trails page
• St. George
  • St. George Area Trails from UtahMountainBiking.com
  • Pete Fagerlin's pics and video from a Gooseberry Mesa road trip

 

North Central

• Price
• San Rafael Swell
• Utah Valley Area Trails from UtahMountainBiking.com

 

North

• Ogden
  • Ogden/Logan Area Trails from UtahMountainBiking.com
  • The Skyline Trail, near Ogden
• Park City
  • Mid Mountain Trail in Park City, Utah is on IMBA's list of epic trails
• Salt Lake City
  • Salt Lake City Area Trails from UtahMountainBiking.com
  • The annual 24 Hours of Soldier Hollow race in Wasatch County. Looks like it might not be happenin' anymore.
• Utah Valley Area Trails from UtahMountainBiking.com

 

South Central

• Capitol Reef National Park (dirt roads only; no singletrack):
  • National Park Service page
  • GORP page

 

North East

• Vernal
  • Vernal Area Trails from UtahMountainBiking.com
  • Several rides near Vernal (north-east corner of Utah) Dinosaur National Monument

 

South

• Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
• Mountain biking in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (southern Utah)

 

Guided Tour Descriptions

• Gay Mountain Biking Vacation to Utah
• Western Spirit
• MTB with Rim Tours

 

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