The Most Popular Riding Areas in Arizona, Colorado, North Carolina, Oregon & Vermont According to Trailforks Data

 Dupont’s 5 parking lots fill by 10am most weekends. Netting was put up along with signs to stop roadside parking. By 11am there is a circle of cars at the visitor center with turn signals on waiting for people to pack up and leave.

 @Randy-Verified: I'm surprised the #1 trail wasn't a poach like Jail Trail.

 @blowmyfuse: Top 5 places to leave your Dasani water bottles.

 So which region/trails would the Internet rider recommend a Euro dude visting this November. I'd even sign up to outside+ for any recommendations...

 @Burnhardx: SoCal or the desert SW if ya wanna enjoy nice mild weather to ride in.

 @Burnhardx: Honestly a lot of Oregon/ Washington/ Colorado are covered in rain or snow in November, California or Arizona are great options for winter riding.

 @Burnhardx: ct is pretty good at that time, but our trails actually suck.

 @Burnhardx: if you're from Zurich you likely can handle some tech.

For good conditions in November I would be heading to Phoenix area or perhaps Ste George nearer to Las Vegas. Pay attention to snow and freezing levels. From there you can rent cars for good prices and if you bring camping gear you can rent a van where you can camp and sleep.

Despite being concrete paradise Phoenix has good riding. That South Mountain Park is pretty tech up and down and will be dry and fun. Also if you have the car you can then visit Sedona and Tucson ( different directions).

Ste George has lots of access to hiking and biking too (Gooseberry, Little Mesa, Hurricane area).

Very different to CH

 @Burnhardx: WIndrock. The XC trails are pretty gnarly, but you might do one loop on them. Shuttle the living crap out of the DH park & rent a side by side & go rip around the backwoods on your day off.

And Knoxville Airport is technically an international hub so you can fly there quick & cheap & land 30 minutes from the park

 I think a lot of this "dont' come to our trails" stuff is joking. That said, like many jokes, it is founded in truth.

The problem being that while we get economic benefits from visitors here, we get other issues also. Mainly a*sholes. A lot of them. They come here, they trash our forests, they yell at other trail users, they yell at us, they act entitled, they poach sensitive areas/trails, they cut through the woods rather than stop for others (happened a week ago to me), and then leave. Like ants consuming a corpse, they flock until nothing is left but bones then move onto whatever else is next after sucking the life out of it and those that live here are left with the consequences when access is lost or trails get rerouted.

I've had so many obnoxious encounters with people from out of town here, I don't blame other trail users for wanting to restrict bikes, and all of these encounters when I was on a bike also. I think a lot of this negativity is based on how people from out of town are treating others. I say that as someone that fully endorses people visiting here and sees the benefit, but I also see the ugly side of it and I wish the rest of the community would also, because a lot of mountain bikers are a*sholes and treat others very poorly.

 @Randy-Verified: I don't even bother going to DuPont anymore unless it is off hours or during the week. The Lake Imaging parking lot mess they made last year was a bad decision from start to finish. It (along with the mess they tried to make to Ridgeline a few years ago) should have been taken as a shot across the bow to the mtb community to stop acting entitled to the forest, but I think that point got missed.

 @willis1021: Not in Oregon. Unless you cross over the cascade mountains. Wet yes, but snow is not as common as it should be.

 @shinook: I’m not joking about Connecticut trails, there’s just so many better trails and trail systems out of state. We have a few good places, but they’re often not maintained super well. Of course I also haven’t ridden every trails system.

 @Burnhardx: November.....AZ, NM, CA if talking western US.

 @Randy-Verified: That means they'll soon start moving to California.

 @willis1021: never heard of a fat bike?

 @Burnhardx: I'll echo some of the other guys and say SoCal or AZ would be pretty hard to beat in November. Ton of stuff from Santa Barbara all the way down to San Diego that will be a perfect 60-70 degrees for most of the winter, only issue might be some sporadic rain.

For AZ you have all the riding around Phoenix plus if it's dry you can head north and ride up in Sedona/Flagstaff or head south down to Tucson. Plenty to keep you busy whichever one you choose!

 @Randy-Verified: They can have Dupont. You have to pass all the good stuff to get there. I don't fully understand the obsession but whatever.

 @Randy-Verified: New environmental project - stand at the trailhead and hand out Dasani compatible water bottle holders to everyone who has one perched in their regular holder just waiting to bounce out

 @Burnhardx: you’re welcome in AZ as long as you’re not bringing that first guy

 @scary1: you are one of the OGs of that region.

 @blowmyfuse: come on, it’ll be rainy and swampy, give the guy a break, he wants warm and dry.

Southwestern US is the place to ride in winter.

 @Burnhardx: Sedona, don’t waste your time with anything else

 @willis1021: California riding season=fall-spring

 @leelau: « very different to CH »… I can confirm. And just a heads up: There are no fountains!!

 How’s Tahoe & Downieville early November..?
I’ll be arriving in SoCal this weekend and want to do a quickie roadtrip up to Boise the first week of Nov. is it worth it stopping by Downieville / Tahoe or would you say drive straight to Boise and back to SoCal again..?
I might have the possibility to throw in a day or two in Sedona then also…
Would love to hear from the locals.. Thanks!

 @Randy-Verified: come on, we live in the era of @sprintervansofbend (which you should follow on Instagram). They’re Smartwater bottles.

 @DutchmanPhotos: Tahoe will be hit or miss(lots of the forest has burned around the south and west shore recently so it's mostly closed) north and east shores good to go! Tahoe is currently getting snow as low as 5000'(1520m) with the Fall rain/snow mix happening in earnest. Some high elevation north slopes are not melting out with back to back storms. Downieville(Lakes basin if you want rowdy) will likely be your best bet. Top of the Downieville descent is like 6500'(1980m) and could see bits of snow, but the vast majority of the trail should be awesome with recent rain storms. Smoke all summer has kept alot of the riders away from the "lost sierra" so Downieville's been riding good! Enjoy your trip.

 @DutchmanPhotos: Everything at high elevation will be likely snow covered. Large storm coming in today expecting to dump on Tahoe/Dville.

 @Sugarbrad: Exactly my thoughts as well. Now if they moved Dupont to the middle of the state ....

 @dualcrownscottspark: Nothing to see in CT. That's for sure.

 @powpowpow: But there is Chue Scheisse! Somethings are universal

 You meant businesses, not riders when you said economic benefit right? Because automatically believing mtbers want some tourism bubble in their backyard is flat out wrong. Trail orgs use economic benefit as a grant writing tool. A very few local riders build the trails (if they weren't already) and you and the rest of those commenting try butchering their progress and beliefs into fake concepts you're not even a part of. And even if some local businesses are rider owned, gentrifying the people making riding possible for them is something nobody who has respect for community wants.

 worth it

 But now the Dupont sanitization project has taken Black & consumed it whole because reasons...

 @blowmyfuse: pour one out for the real ones that remember old Black mountain.

 @blowmyfuse: That is sad. RIP Black. Gone but not forgotten

 What are you talking about? They posted Sedona.

 @ihatton929: I think the Bentonville chamber of commerce would beg to differ www.visitbentonville.com/sp/bike

 @chacou: That's cool, I labeled myself "The Lord Master of Single Track, Slayer of Berms and Liberator of Rock Gardens".

I'm glad we can pick our nicknames now.

 @ihatton929: My house is officially the "World Capital of Procrastination and Bullshit", don't dare try to steal my title

 LOL, why does everyone gotta hate on Bville? The title is... aspirational... hopeful... think of movies like Rudie etc. I could've moved anywhere with trails, but I love Bville and I'm glad it's not on the list. Everyone stay away, we're all good here in NW Arkansas

 Yep, trails in Canada are garbage, not worth the trip…

(You think they bought it?)

 @preach what if it showed Rocky River ? But really it was just the data counting every overlapping switchback as a new ride?

"Trailforks said I rode the gully 8 times in one ride"

 @blowmyfuse: possible, but gloriously it left out the entire NW section of the state. :-)

 Same. I’m glad the best and gnarliest trails in the state, Tanglewood Park, are still unknown to all the Floridian tourists.

 most popular and best are two different things sometimes

 I'm perfectly okay with visitors going to Brown's

 Yes

 “it's simply a means of showcasing some useful data features available on Trailforks.“

Ah so this is click bait and advertising shoddily veiled as a journalistic piece. Should rename it “Pinkbile”

 @bonkmastereflex Couldn't agree more. Is there so little happing around the world that they needed to scrape the barrel to come up with page filling ideas.

 Yes. I'm routinely generating ride logs and using them to do trail reporting. I also track what others report in case there's issues that the volunteers need to know about. And then there was summer 2020 when nearly every riding area in the entire state of Oregon was closed due to wildfire risk or the secondary risk of all the local firefighters being pulled away to help fight the raging fires in the Cascades.

 This is a good point. Strava useage is probably more relevant. To some extent, Trailforks usage is a better proxy for how confusing a trail system is, and that's validated with Post Canyon, which is quite a spider web of trails.

 Nope, but it's nice when you go somewhere new!

 It's a super helpful map, be it a place I've not been to, forgotten a bit, or when I have to hike out. As for recording rides, I've found it to be a very useful tool for gauging when I'm supposed to service things compared to when it feels like I should. Alot of people talk about importing recordings from Strava, but frankly at this point I'm almost always doing the opposite, recording in Trailforks and syncing that to my Strava.

 @stalkinghorse: I don't use trailforks (at least mobile) anymore since they started charging. However all my strava rides still automatically sync to my trailforks. So I imagine there's a lot of that going on too.

 @tbmaddux: Its a great tool for this, trail closures for logging happen all the time here too, pays to check trail forks.

 it's just a map of peeps cutting corners

 @artistformlyknowasdan: LOL

 @artistformlyknowasdan: Or riding the wrong way.

 I'd bet that if they combined this with Strava data then you'd see a front range network or two on the CO list. However, western slope is very popular with front rangers as well as many others outside the front range

 I'd imagine that since there's so many options on the front range the traffic is fairly spread between Ft. Collins down to Evergreen but Lunch Loop is the go to for GJ locals

 Trust your instincts. Few people in Colorado use Trailforks and those that do aren't in the Front Range. So according to the Trailforks database...Lunch loops is most popular with those people.

 @Sycip69er: That, plus it’s likely not as common for people to use a trail finding app to ride local trails that they know very well.

 Boulder is for bearded urban lumberjack hipster trustafarians w overbuilt and under used tacomas!!@chacou:

 @Tigergoosebumps: I'm sorry, I'm a bit confused are you playing the game "pick a CO locale and complete the stereotype"? Cause that's a pretty good one, but gonna have to dock you points for not using "Commiefornia", "CALIrado", or "NATIVE"

 Boulder is in the Front Range, and outside of Valmont, there’s really no place to ride.

 Same here

 All the links go to the Colorado page.

 I've fixed that!

 As it should. DuPont doesn’t need any more pressure than it already has.

 I thought the World Cup was in East Virginia?

 @hardcore-hardtail: north Virginia actually

 

 Nah, I have no doubts this compilation article was planned well before my sarcastic ass showed up.

 Latin for beyond the forest. Trans - Beyond. Sylva - Wood

 Go big, huck your meat in DuPont and go to Transylvania general and give blood this Halloween ‍♀️

 Nor does “most popular on TrailForks” equate to most popular in real life. This data is pretty useless unfortunately.

 Hi, I'm in Delaware.

 Psh, Delaware

 Dela-where?