Keweenaw Adventure Co is located across the street from Copper Harbor's renowned trail system with over 40 miles of mapped singletrack trails including cross-country, flow and gravity trails. Rent a premium enduro full suspension, hardtail or fat bike to experience the unique and scenic mountain biking in upper Michigan.read more
Teresa's Bike and Hike tours is a local outdoor adventure company located in Los Barriles, Baja California, Mexico. Their mountain biking tours and hiking adventures extend from the beautiful white sand beaches of the Sea of Cortez to the majestic and rugged Sierra de la Laguna mountain range. read more
Located in downtown Hood River, minutes from incredible Pacific NW bike trails, is the Pacific Northwest's premiere mountain bike demo shop - Hood River Bicycle. Rent a bike or demo a new model explore the epic Pacific NW trails. read more
Bike Truckee is located downtown Truckee, CA in the beautiful north Lake Tahoe area. Whether you are looking for mountain bikes for Tahoe's infamous MTB trails, or cruisers for our scenic paved trails, Bike Truckee will has the bike rental for you.read more
No transport required - Trailhead Mountain Bike Rentals
Bighorn Mountain Biking provides Moab riders with the most convenient way to rent mountain bikes by having locations right at the two most popular Moab trailheads for beginner and intermediate riders. Choose from a Marin hardtail or full suspension with easy pickup at Moab Brand (Bar M) trailhead or Dead Horse State Park! They provide personalized service, route recommendations and terrain and bike safety tips to ensure your Moab biking adventure is absolutely unforgettable. read more
Mountain bike rentals at Dead Horse State Park
Bighorn Mountain Biking provides Moab riders with the most convenient way to rent mountain bikes at Dead Horse State Park. Choose from a Marin hardtail or full suspension with easy pickup at the trailhead! They provide personalized service, route recommendations and terrain and bike safety tips to ensure your Moab biking adventure is absolutely unforgettable. read more
Improve Your MTB Skills on the World's Best Trails! The Sedona Mountain Bike Academy offers personalized mountain bike instruction designed and conducted on Sedona’s iconic singletrack and headed by a premier team of certified mountain bike instructors. Whether it’s your first time on a mountain bike or you are an advanced rider, SMBA has an custom adventure for you. read more
Pagosa Mountain Sports is a bike shop and outdoor store nestled in the beautiful downtown Pagosa Springs, Colorado surrounded by the San Juan National Forest. Bike rentals for every two-wheeled adventure: road, mountain, townie bikes, kids bikes, e-bikes and more!read more
Virginia Key Outdoors Center provides mountain, cruiser and kids bike rentals for your Miami excursions. With over 9 miles of trails just outside the shop, there's a lot of riding to do!read more
So, you’re ready to go mountain biking and ready to take it on as an adventure, but how do you figure out where to go?! We’ve put together a list of ways to find mountain biking near you!
Here is the method that we use when riding new mountain bike trails.
The best way is to visit a local bike shop and get information and then confirm those details online by finding your local trail building and maintenance organization or using one of the trail finding apps.
Ask a friend that mountain bikes and find out what your best options are for finding mountain biking trails and other mountain biking tips. But, make sure you use other sources of data to validate your friend’s recommendations. We’re not questioning your friendship but an ”easy trail” for your friend or colleague that has been mountain biking for 15 years may not be so easy for you as a beginner or the ”obvious right turn at the big rock” may not be so obvious.
There are a number of great apps to use to find and choose mountain bikeing trails and systems. Here are some of our favorites:
Singletracks.com is not only one of the top mountain biking blogs, it’s one of the best resources for finding mountain biking trails. While you’re there, you’ll want to subscribe to them as you’ll get lots of mountain biking inspiration, how-to guides, product reviews, and more. They also have their own trail finding app that you can use as well.
TrailForks.com is probably the most downloaded app as it provides in-depth trail information. You can download the trails and get offline data when you’re out riding to make sure that you never get lost. Like Singletracks and other apps, the data is an opensource database that provides information from fellow riders that have ”been there ridden that” and gets verified by admins for accuracy.
MTBProject.com is one the oldest mountain bike route and trail finding app and works very similarly to Trailforks. We have all 3 of these apps downloaded and have offline maps downloaded when we are finding new mountain biking near us.
Strava is a fitness app that also has the ability to search segments close to you which you can use to find trail networks, although this isn’t our preferred way.
With all of these apps, it is important to have the trail downloaded for offline use before you head out. It’s easy to lose signal in the mountains and you can’t just ‘Ask Siri’ for the quickest way back to your car.
See our “best of” compilation of our favorite mountain bike towns in the U.S. Some are well-known destinations, others are barely on the radar – but we feel they are all very worthy of the title. Is your favorite mountain bike destination on the list?
To recap, here are the best steps for finding mountain biking near you.
Some best practices when riding new trails:
Finding the right gear for mountain biking is easy! TripOutside features the best local shops for mountain bike gear rental, trips and tours. Whether you are looking to demo a brand new model before buying, or you are taking a trip to a renowned destination like Moab or Sedona, TripOutside has the gear you need for your mountain biking adventure in over 50 top biking destinations.
There are so many different types and categories of mountain bikes. Here are a couple of the most popular.
Hardtail mountain bikes have suspension only in the front. They are great for climbing mountains, since they are light and efficient. They work well for both cross country and trail riding.