MTB Project: Oregon - An excellent directory of all the best mountain bike rides and trails in Oregon. This smart-phone friendly website recently sponsored by REI includes user ratings, trail data, detailed trail descriptions and maps, current trail and weather conditions and much more!
The construction of Timberline Bike Park is now complete, and the park is open for business pending current COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. For current information, click on the link below.
Tickle Creek Trail - This 1.8 mile packed gravel trail is an ideal off-road path for a leisurely family ride. Riders can use wide-tired commuter type bikes and kids bikes as wll as mountain bikes. The trail was completed by the City of Sandy in late summer 2011 to serve as a crosstown multi-use transportation corridor for cyclists and pedestrians. It is designed as an easy ride intended for all skill levels. This trail also has a lot of foot traffic, so please yield to pedestrians.
The Mount Hood National Forest (MHNF) contains over 1 million acres of some of the country's most beautiful terrain. The Government Camp Trail System is a collection of MHNF single-track mountain biking trails in the Zigzag Ranger District near the resort town of Government Camp on the south flank of Mount Hood. This system provides about 26 miles of trails, mostly in the easy to intermediate skill range, and includes access to Timberline Lodge, Trillium Lake, the old Barlow Trail and the Village of Rhododendron.
Originally constructed in 2009, the Sandy Ridge Trail System is one of the crown jewels of mountain biking in the Pacific NW. More than 125,000 mountain bikers visit the Sandy Ridge Trail System every year now, and the complex has become so popular that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management will soon add almost 200 acres of land, 2 miles of new trails and double the size of the parking lot to keep up with capacity The Sandy Ridge complex currently contains 10 separate trails totaling over 15 miles of single-track goodness at varying skill levels for your riding pleasure.
