Ride Reports
09 | 20 | '16
Good news is that the trails are in great shape and we saw very little mud despite the recent rains. The bad news is that two cars had windows smashed out in the parking lot, in the middle of the day, on a Tuesday. Luckily, someone pulled...
Submitted by paulcall on 9/20/16
09 | 17 | '16
09 | 16 | '16
To be brief I would give this ride a big thumbs down.
I am currently getting ready for cyclocross season and so the official description of seemed to be on the money for what I wanted, that is a fire road with some elevation, somethin...
Submitted by andrewbowerman on 9/16/16
09 | 10 | '16
Trail in good shape, but dry and brittle on exposed edges.
Submitted by MOMconnected on 9/11/16
09 | 07 | '16
Trail is in good shape(thanks EMBA) considering the shape it was in after all the winter wind storms. Ranger has a couple easy over trees and one blown out switchback you have to dirt climb up/down. Palisades just keeps getting better and...
Submitted by jackd49 on 9/8/16
08 | 28 | '16
First of all, the 500' of advertised elevation gain is simply the elevation change from the trail low point to it's high point. Actual riding elevation total gain from Salmon la Sac, out the Pete Lake Trail, and return is 1500'. The Cooper River trai...
Submitted by BeckyBr on 9/7/16
09 | 05 | '16
Did the point-to-point shuttle up road 8500-8440. Such an great ride! Trail was in mint condition, super duffy with needles and ultra-narrow singletrack. This is a stunningly fun and gorgeious ride, I can't believe more people don't...
Submitted by JustinVP on 9/6/16
09 | 05 | '16
My daughter (16) and I rode these trails for the first time today and had a great time. The trails are not marked at all so remember to print and bring the trail map. We did a loop as shown in the picture attached. It took us 90 minutes but we took o...
Submitted by FrancisL on 9/6/16
09 | 03 | '16
We tried to do the loop clockwise starting at the Goat creek trailhead, which is northwest of the loop (trails 205, 218 and 217). I read it was just under 18 miles. However, as soon as we got from trail 205, 218 was LITTERED with blown down branchy t...
Submitted by juliansammons on 9/4/16
09 | 03 | '16
Started at the North end from Duthie Hill Park Saturday morning and about 3.4 miles in, a little ways past the 3rd bridge I had just about crested the hill and stopped for a moment to drink some water and take off my second shirt. I heard somet...
Submitted by Fenton on 9/3/16
09 | 02 | '16
Rode this trail with the family, really easy if you want, we stayed on the main trail 10. Had a good time hope we go out & do some more biking.
Submitted by RKCRWLR on 9/3/16
08 | 31 | '16
As a FYI, the following trails have been cleaned up:
1) 7 Bridges
2) Peace
3) 3rd Line
4) KC Parks has cleaned up most of the trails on the west side of Maple Valley HIghway (new parking lot) between the highway and the creek....
Submitted by mcniemi on 8/31/16
08 | 28 | '16
Right before the first "roller coaster" structure there's a big paper wasp nest in a tree to the right of the trail. It's at the intersection where you can go left to skip the structure or right to ride it and add a little more trail. I got stun...
Submitted by jennlesh on 8/29/16
08 | 08 | '16
Trails are a little loose and gravelly for most of this ride, and you will definitely roll through horse poop. There is... a lot of horse poop. I'm pretty sure I was the only mountain biker in the park, which is a little different from the Saturday p...
Submitted by rhin0rj on 8/28/16
08 | 26 | '16
i rode up the Palisades, and reached Noble Knob. The whole route was in excellent condition. I only remember one tree that required hiking around. And of course lots of steep switches I had to push. (This time). Coming down off the top of Noble Knob...
Submitted by mikegaul on 8/27/16
08 | 25 | '16
Had a mountain biking colleague from Sweden in town and wanted to take him someplace where he could get a sample of our backcountry riding without having to drive for 3-4 hours or camp over night. Esmeralda fit the bill. I last rode this...
Submitted by woodway on 8/26/16
08 | 18 | '16
Rode Flowtron climbed to Middle OGDH then over to to Midtown to Lower Crazy Ivan. Flowtron has some blackberry whipper surprises, OGDH dried out nicely, Upper Midtown dry and dusty, Lower Midtown completely overgrown with blackberries...
Submitted by Timmer on 8/26/16
08 | 17 | '16
Rode the Dungeness trail to Gold Creek & back starting at the old trailhead at the bottom of FS 230. You can get there with an SUV or truck with some clearance. Someone has cleared the sticks/brush so you can drive down close to the old parking...
Submitted by msteingrebe on 8/26/16
08 | 21 | '16
On a cooler clear day we shuttled to the end of FS Road 6210, which is the top of Chikamin Tie and headed up 1409.1 towards Mad Lake. We stayed on 1409.1, but if you want to add some climbing and southerly views you can turn left at the first interse...
Submitted by Kasperilio on 8/24/16
08 | 21 | '16
Decided to go see the slide at Oso and go up to the lookout for a little excercise. For the ride, I parked at the Whitehorse Park ball fields and then rode the 13 miles up to the lookout for the nice views. The road is paved for 2.8 miles then turns...
Submitted by tomvale on 8/22/16