The Best Mountain Biking Trails in Hurricane

The Jem trail network is a system of singletrack in the desert outside of Hurricane, but located BELOW the iconic Gooseberry Mesa. The location of this sweet set of trails not only provides for flowy, beginner-friendly riding, but they are much quicker and easier to access than the iconic Gooseberry....

The Guacamole Trail network is the third of Hurricane, Utah's big four mesa top rides (after Gooseberry Mesa and Little Creek Mountain). This is a delightful network that has two things going for it relative to the others....

It would be intriguing to learn why Hurricane Rim was designated as the token IMBA Epic ride for the renowned destination of Hurricane, Utah, and not the internationally-renowned Gooseberry Mesa. Did IMBA at one time not consider slickrock riding to be worthy of Epic status? Did Gooseberry not offer enough mileage to be considered "Epic?" The decisions once made may now be lost to the mists of time....

Wire Mesa is one of the newest trails in the Hurricane region, recently completed in 2016. While many sections of Wire Mesa's nearby grandfather trail, Gooseberry Mesa, are renowned for their technicality, the trails found on Wire Mesa are much more approachable and intermediate-friendly....

The classic Gooseberry Mesa Trail is still just as fun and entertaining as ever! The slickrock riding is reminiscent of the iconic Slickrock trail in Moab, but with a character all its own....

Little Creek Mountain is another of Southwest Utah's mesa playgrounds for bikes. The mesa is home to two main loops full of absolutely top-notch cranking for the adventurous or technically-oriented rider....

The longtime classic trail system on Gooseberry Mesa has seen a couple of trail additions in recent years—most notably the Windmill trail. Windmill offers an alternative path to begin the ride at Gooseberry....