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WELCOME! If you arrived at this page directly, you may want to read the introductory page: Roger's Favorite Singletrack Mountain Bike Rides
Please realize that I am an older, strong, intermediate mountain biker with a passion for singletracks and am suggesting these trails to others such as myself. Please do not rely totally on my descriptions -- get maps and trail guides locally.
Suggestions for minimizing trail damage:
-do not let your tires slide when climbing, descending, or
turning.
-ride over water bars, not around them.
-avoid riding on wet trails.
-carry your bike over or around deep mud.
-ride under control so that you do not run off the edge of the
trail.
Two books are necessary for any visit to Arizona:
Fat Tire Tales And Trails by Cosmic Ray
This section of the Arizona Trail runs about 40 miles from near
Jacob Lake to the Park Boundary. I choose to ride the section south
from Road 241. The trail, for the most part, is singletrack and stays
away from the road. But at times it becomes a doubletrack or gets
close to the road. In mid June, the forests were filled with blue
lupine and the meadows were filled with grasses and small, subalpine
flowers. Dryer forests were composed of Aspens and Ponderosas. Wetter
forests were composed of firs, spruce, and hemlock. The Aspens were
particularly large in this region. At one point I looked out onto a
dark green meadow surrounded by a mosaic of Aspens and conifers. I
stopped riding when the trail turned into a doubletrack passing
through an ugly clear-cut or burned and salvaged region. It was about
8 miles to this point (just guessing!), making for a nice three hour
out-and-back ride.
if you do a ride and enjoy it, please let the land manager know that you did enjoy it and that the existence of singletrack trails is important to you! A small donation for trail maintenance and development might also be helpful! I will slowly add email and snail mail addresses and phone numbers of land managers of the trails that I have described so that you may more easily contact them.
North Kaibab Ranger District
Box 248
Fredonia, Arizona 86022
(602)643-7395
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