The Best Mountain Biking Trails in Bay Area

Redwood Regional Park serves as a popular escape from the concrete of the city for both hikers and bikers. Unfortunately, in keeping with the East Bay’s pervasive anti-mountain bike sentiment, the mountain bike loop through Redwood Regional Park takes place entirely on doubletrack and fire roads....

"Skeggs Point (El Corte de Madera Creek Open Space Preserve) is one of the top candidates for the 'best mountain biking location' award in the Bay Area, and might just be my personal number one,” writes BayAreaRides....

The rugged coastline at Wilder Ranch is the main attraction for hikers, but the hills and canyons above are the the allure for mountain biking. The web of trails has a lot of variety, including fire roads, singletrack, flow, and technical....

Soquel Demonstration Forest, or "Demo Forest" for short, has long been one of the must-ride trails in California. In 2015, a new addition to this iconic network was completed: the Flow Trail....

While trail access laws in the Bay Area are generally very anti-mountain bike, the East Bay is arguably the most restrictive area. The rampant spread of signs proclaiming “no bikes allowed” throughout the region makes Joaquin Miller such a diamond in the rough....

Soquel Demonstration Forest, or "Demo Forest" for short, has long been one of the must-ride trails in California. The classic Demo Forest trails can be best characterized as old school freeride descents....

Soquel Demonstration Forest, or "Demo Forest" for short, has long been one of the must-ride trails in California. The classic Demo Forest trails can be best characterized as old school freeride descents....

This route serves as an optional extension to the more common loops found at El Corte de Madera Creek Open Space. Dubbed the “Outer Reaches” for lack of a better term, not only are these trails much more remote and less-defined than their cousins to the north, but you’ll also find the most technical trails in the network here....