The Best US Mountain Bike Destinations in 2022
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
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🗓️ 22 August 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Chris, Jeff, and Matt talk about the 12 best mountain bike destinations in the United States that was recently shared on Singletracks. We'll go over the criteria we consider when choosing our favorite mountain bike destinations and go through the list and share more about the best spots to visit.
- Moab, Utah
- Sedona, Arizona
- Bentonville, Arkansas
- Grand Valley, Colorado (Fruita / Grand Junction / Palisade)
- Crested Butte, Colorado and the Gunnison Valley
- Park City, Utah
- Pisgah, North Carolina (Brevard / Asheville / Old Fort)
- Lake Tahoe
- Copper Harbor, Michigan
- Kingdom Trails, Vermont
- Durango, Colorado
- Bellingham, Washington
Cover photo: Matt Miller
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| 0:47.8 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. |
| 0:51.1 | My name is Jeff and today Matt and Chris and I are going to be talking about our favorite |
| 0:56.7 | mountain bike destinations. |
| 0:58.3 | Well, really your favorite mountain bike destinations. |
| 1:01.4 | We recently published a list of what we think are the best mountain bike destinations in |
| 1:08.5 | the USA right now. |
| 1:13.1 | And this is a list we've published over the years a number of times. And we've obviously updated it. A lot of things change. And so, yeah, |
| 1:19.0 | we're excited to talk about this year's list and sort of how we picked them. So let's start off |
| 1:25.9 | by asking a question. Chris, what was your first trip to a mountain |
| 1:30.6 | bike destination? What was like the first time you're like planned a trip specifically just to go |
| 1:36.7 | biking and how'd that go? Well, Moab is a six hour drive from my house. So that was my first destination. It was right out of college. |
| 1:47.8 | I had bought my first, what I would say, real mountain bike. And someone said, let's go ride at Moab. |
| 1:53.7 | The first trail I ever rode there was Slick Rock, which in hindsight wasn't wise because I wasn't very good at mountain biking at the time. |
| 2:03.4 | But it was awesome to camp there. |
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