Mountain Biking
Source-verified mountain biking pages from 435 Alliance.
Barrel Roll
Barrel Roll starts where Cottonwood Drive ends in north Santa Clara — the pavement turns to dirt, the houses stop, and the slickrock starts.
Bear Claw Poppy
Bear Claw Poppy starts at a dirt pull-off on Bloomington Drive in the south end of St. George, drops into a wash, and starts the most-ridden in-town descent...
Bone Shaker
Bone Shaker is the trail that earns the name. Three and a half miles of rocky singletrack cut across the southern edge of the Santa Clara network, with a...
Brian Head Bike Park
Brian Head Resort is one of two lift-served mountain bike parks in Utah. From mid-June through early October, the Giant Steps Express chairlift runs in...
Bunker Hill Trail
Bunker Hill is the OHV trail that runs east of Hurricane through low desert ridges, and the surface reflects what side-by-side traffic does to dirt.
Church Rocks
Church Rocks is the trail you can ride on a long airport layover. The trailhead sits a quarter-mile off I-15 exit 22 outside Leeds, and the four-mile loop...
Cobble Crusher
Cobble Crusher earns the name in the first mile. The trail drops off the upper Church Rocks terrace and runs through repeated sections of cobbled rock —...
Coral Canyon Trails
Coral Canyon is the master-planned community in Washington City built around the Coral Canyon Golf Course, and a network of informal dirt singletrack runs...
Cottonwood Trail (Red Cliffs)
Cottonwood Trail starts at the Red Cliffs Recreation Area trailhead off I-15 exit 22, the same trailhead that serves the Three Ponds hike and the Babylon...
Dead Ringer
Dead Ringer is the third descent off the Hurricane Cliffs rim, a 3. 5-mile black-grade line that asks more of a rider than JEM or More Cowbell.
Dixie Rock Bike Approach
Pioneer Park, also called Dixie Rock, is the sandstone outcrop in the middle of downtown St. George — vault arches, a slot-walking maze, the carved "Dixie"...
Gooseberry Mesa
Gooseberry Mesa Road climbs five miles of washboard off UT-9 west of Virgin, gains about 1,000 feet to the rim, and dumps you at a BLM trailhead with no...
Goulds Trail
Goulds is the connector trail that links Hurricane Rim's top to JEM's top, three miles of plateau-top singletrack along the rim of the Hurricane Cliffs.
Grafton Mesa
Grafton Mesa is the descent that ends at a ghost town. The upper trailhead sits on a mesa above Rockville, the trail drops 1,400 feet through rocky...
Guacamole Mesa
Guacamole sits between Virgin and Hurricane on the same slickrock terrace as JEM, on the south side of UT-9. The trailhead is a pull-off near Sheep Bridge,...
Hurricane Cliffs Network
The Hurricane Cliffs Network is the trail system that runs along the eastern edge of the Hurricane Valley — JEM, Hurricane Rim, Goulds, More Cowbell, Dead...
Hurricane Cliffs Rim Trail
Hurricane Rim is the trail that pairs with JEM. If JEM is the shuttle descent, Rim is the way you earn the descent without paying for the van.
Hurricane Mesa Trail
Hurricane Mesa is the higher mesa north of Hurricane proper, distinct from the Hurricane Cliffs that hold the JEM network on the south side.
Iron Hills
Iron Hills is the network you ride when you have an hour, a bike, and a downtown Cedar City address. The trail set covers the low foothills along the...
JEM Trail
JEM is the trail that built Hurricane's bike economy. Nine miles of nearly continuous descent down the back side of the Hurricane Cliffs, it drops from the...
Kanab Creek Trails
Kanab Creek runs through Kanab on its way south into Arizona, and a few miles of informal singletrack run along the creek and the surrounding BLM benches...
Lava Flow (Cedar Mountain)
Lava Flow on the Markagunt Plateau is a high-country alternative to the desert trails that anchor Washington County. The 12-mile loop sits at about 9,000...
Little Creek Mesa
Little Creek sits across the Hurricane Valley from Gooseberry and looks, on a map, like its twin — a slickrock mesa, a perimeter trail, white dots on red rock.
Mansard Trail
Mansard is the in-town Kanab mountain bike trail. The trailhead sits at the north end of Kanab's Main Street, and the trail climbs through a dirt corridor...
More Cowbell
More Cowbell is the rowdier sibling to JEM. Same shuttle, same general direction off the Hurricane Cliffs rim, but a steeper grade, more rock features, and...
Navajo Lake Trails
Navajo Lake sits on the Markagunt Plateau east of Cedar City, a small alpine lake at about 9,000 feet on the UT-14 corridor.
Owens Loop
Owens Loop is the family-friendly trail at the Red Cliffs Recreation Area. A mile and a half of mostly-flat dirt with short slickrock benches, the loop sits...
Paradise Rim
Paradise Rim is the photo trail of the Santa Clara network. Four miles of slickrock running along a cliff edge above the Santa Clara River canyon, the trail...
Red Bull Rampage Venue
Red Bull Rampage is the freeride mountain bike event held annually on a stretch of private cliffs north of Virgin, Utah.
Red Cliffs Network
The Red Cliffs Network is the third of Washington County's three flagship bike networks — fifteen-plus miles of trails accessed off I-15 exit 22 outside...
Sand Hollow Trails
Sand Hollow State Park is mostly known for the red water reservoir and the OHV access to Sand Mountain, but a network of mountain bike trails runs across...
Santa Clara River Reserve Network
The Santa Clara River Reserve is the umbrella name for the BLM and city-managed land north of Santa Clara that holds the in-town bike network — Barrel Roll,...
Sheep Bridge Trail
Sheep Bridge is the historic crossing of the Virgin River that gives the trailhead and trail their name — a footbridge built originally to move livestock...
Sidewinder
Sidewinder runs the low desert between the Sheep Bridge JEM trailhead and the Guacamole Mesa approach, four miles of intermediate singletrack that twists...
Sky Mountain Trails
Sky Mountain is the residential community and golf course at the north edge of Hurricane, and a small set of informal bike trails runs the perimeter and the...
Smith Mesa
Smith Mesa Road climbs north out of Virgin off UT-9, switches up the cliff band, and tops out on a flat plateau between the Virgin River and Zion's western...
Snow Canyon Scenic Loop (Whiptail Trail)
Snow Canyon's Whiptail Trail is the paved bike path that runs the length of the state park from the south entrance to the upper end near the Lava Flow Trail.
Stucki Springs
Stucki Springs is the climb half of the standard south St. George loop.
Suicidal Tendencies
Suicidal Tendencies is the black-grade descent in the Santa Clara reserve, four miles of slickrock and rocky singletrack that drops off the upper Barrel...
The Rim Trail (Virgin)
The Rim Trail above Virgin is a small four-mile route that runs along a low cliff edge above the town. The rim view looks south across UT-9 toward the...
Three Peaks
Three Peaks Recreation Area sits west of Cedar City off Midvalley Road, a stretch of BLM ground at about 5,500 feet that holds Iron County's primary in-town...
Three Ponds
Three Ponds is one of the few trails on the Red Cliffs side that's regularly hiked and biked by the same crowd. The trail starts at the Cottonwood Trail...
Thunderbird Mountain
Thunderbird Mountain is the named butte rising west of Cedar City — one of the local landmarks any first-time visitor to Cedar notices on the drive in from...
Turtle Wall Trail
Turtle Wall sits at the west edge of St. George off Snow Canyon Parkway, in the same parking area as the Chuckwalla and Turtle Wall climbing crags.
Wire Mesa
Wire Mesa is a small flat slickrock mesa east of Virgin, off a short dirt access road from UT-9. The perimeter is one well-marked 7.
Yankee Meadow Trails
Yankee Meadow Reservoir sits in the Dixie National Forest north of Parowan at about 8,500 feet — a small alpine reservoir surrounded by aspen and forested...
Zen
Zen runs across the upper Santa Clara reserve as a connector between the easier Barrel Roll loop and the harder Suicidal Tendencies / Paradise Rim trails.