Top 10 Ridden US Biking Destinations in July

Aug 10, 2017
by Trevor May  
Using the Trailforks ridelog feature we are able to see what trails and regions are being ridden the most and when. We've queried the database to find the top ridden biking cities for the month of July 2017. You'll notice some big name destinations like Moab are not on the list, probably too hot for riding, less visitors in the middle of summer I guess?

You can make sure your rides are counted by either connecting your Strava account with Trailforks, or by recording your rides using the new tracking feature in the Trailforks app! The more people logging their rides to Trailforks the more accurate this data becomes for these fun lists, but more importantly for trail association advocacy use.

If people find these sort of blog posts interesting we can do much more, we can even seperate out locals riding their local network, to better gauge top travel destinations. If you have idea for other ridelog related lists we could do, let us know!

Ridelogs in the USA for July 2017



1. Park City, Utah
Park City mountain biking trails

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Top 10 Ridden US Biking Destinations in July
Chasing Epic Season Wrap- In Pictures




2. Draper, Utah
Draper mountain biking trails

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Top 10 Ridden US Biking Destinations in July
Top 10 Ridden US Biking Destinations in July




3. Bellingham, Washington
Bellingham mountain biking trails

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Cruising through the forest aboard the Chromag Aperture
Top 10 Ridden US Biking Destinations in July




4. Issaquah, Washington
Issaquah mountain biking trails

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images from - The Story of Predator- An interview with Bryan Connolly
Top 10 Ridden US Biking Destinations in July




5. Hood River, Oregon
Hood River mountain biking trails

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Top 10 Ridden US Biking Destinations in July
I d been wanting to shoot here for a long time. Finally I motivated enough to get ahold of Ben and make it happen.




6. Lyndonville, Vermont
Lyndonville mountain biking trails

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Kingdom Trails
French Connection




7. Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix mountain biking trails

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Top 10 Ridden US Biking Destinations in July
Top 10 Ridden US Biking Destinations in July




8. Bend, Oregon
The place to go for some amazing mountain biking and other outdoor activities. Trails for the whole family, from Downhill at Mt. Bachelor to easy & hard XCountry trails at Phil's.

Bend mountain biking trails

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Having a ball at Mt. Bachelor. We totally scored and hit it the day after a long-overdue rain and conditions were awesome. What a gorgeous place and so much fun to ride. Must return
Photos from episode 3 of the TrailLove series presented by BMC Pinkbike Trailforks.com and in association with Pearl Izumi.




9. Cedar Mountain, North Carolina
Cedar Mountain biking trails

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Edge of the cliff at sunset Big Rock Trail DuPont State Forest. Cedar Mountain North Carolina.
dec.28th 2014




10. Colorado Springs, Colorado
Colorado Springs mountain biking trails

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Kirt Voreis launches the Niner RIP 9 RDO during a visit with the SRAM guys in Colorado Springs.
Top 10 Ridden US Biking Destinations in July



The query for you geeks!

SELECT region.rid, region.title, region.alias, p.title AS prov_title, tr.description, COUNT(*) AS total
FROM wostrailforks.ridelog_trails rt
JOIN wostrailforks.trail t ON rt.trailid=t.trailid
JOIN wostrailforks.ridelog r ON rt.ridelogid=r.id
JOIN wostrailforks.trail_index i ON t.trailid=i.nid
JOIN wostrailforks.region ON i.city=region.rid
JOIN wostrailforks.region p ON i.prov=p.rid
JOIN wostrailforks.region_text tr ON region.rid=tr.rid
WHERE YEAR(FROM_UNIXTIME(r.created)) = '2017' AND MONTH(FROM_UNIXTIME(r.created)) = '7' AND t.difficulty NOT IN (1,7) AND i.country='3001' AND i.city>0
GROUP BY i.city
ORDER BY total DESC
LIMIT 10


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143 Comments
  • 119 2
 Analysis needs refinement. The SQL query is counting the number of 'trails' ridden, which favors cities that have dense trail clusters consisting of very short trail segments. You'll notice that the cities at the top of your list have a higher total trail count than the total count of trail mileage (for example, Park City has 650 trail that total only 529 miles). Their trails are shorter than 1 mile, on average. Some lower on the list have an average trail length just over a mile...or up to 1.5 miles.

Cities with longer trail segments will not 'complete' in this analysis because, although they may be very popular riding destinations, they would not count as many 'ridden trails'. Next time, purely count mileage ridden? Or hours ridden?

Nice analysis nonetheless. I'm a GIS *and* SQL geek, so I love the way this was presented and the fact that you posted the query!!!!
  • 15 2
 FYI: Moab has 352 trails with a total mileage of 766, making the average length of a trail 2.17 miles.
Also, note #8 in the list: Kirkland, Washington. Average trail length is less than a quarter-mile (0.239)!
  • 7 1
 I was so excited to see the SQL then disappointed when I read it. Plus these sub mile segments shouldn't be called trails. Just because you can only Strava beat others over 200 yards doesn't mean that one easy section should get a trail name.
  • 10 0
 Mileage ridden wouldn't work either, as that would skew towards flatter locales. I think hours is the most reasonable metric?
  • 36 2
 There are so many different ways to skin the cat. But you are correct, to tally a region I should have not counted trails ridden, but just unique ridelogs in that city. I normally do this but forgot! I was originally going to do a list of the most ridden trails, that's where the query started but changed to do cities instead. Could do total rides, total rides by UNIQUE users, total distance and so on. Next month I will do unique rides in a city, as you pointed out makes more sense.
  • 7 2
 @namdoogttam: Also: Trailforks (Skidmap) started in Utah. Probably many more users in Utah than anywhere else. Hard to believe Draper, UT is a primary riding destination. I believe what you are seeing is the (over?)use by high school teams training.
  • 7 2
 @necros: Probably best to just count number of unique rides. Maybe with a criteria of >1 mile and must include at least 1 trail, to filter out road rides.
  • 2 2
 You can typically get more mileage out of flatter trails. So I'd go with hours or vertical (or maybe just descent) instead.
  • 5 2
 @dsirl: Trailforks for sure has a bias towards BC and Utah in a lot of the data, we have so many active users in those 2 regions. But as the site grows and ridelog usage as well, this starts to become less of an issue.
  • 1 0
 @canadaka: ranking based on "most rides" would be biased towards short rides, like shuttling laps on a relatively short DH trail or series of trails. Conversely, ranking based on "most rides" would be biased against long rides, like an all day epic or even a big XC event.
  • 12 0
 @dsirl: Go to Corner canyon (the exact area shown as "Draper") on any day of the week after work or on Saturday AM. You will see why it is #2. It def isn't the high schoolers...
  • 29 3
 LOL you're all such nerds.
  • 16 18
 Park city has 10 or so trails worth riding. If you like pedaling the same flat sagebrush stuff with a different name it's where you wanna ride. That imba gold rating is a joke and makes me question the quality of the riding at the other locations with the rating. Quality over quantity if you ask me.
  • 17 5
 @weezyb: LOL, you clearly don't know where to ride.
  • 2 0
 I'd be curious to see how many out of towners hit up Kirkland, it makes for a good on the way home destination, but there is so much better just a little bit more out of the way.
  • 1 0
 @canadaka: "most ridden" should be a count of total rides. A ride being trailhead and out (filtered), as you said. Looking forward to next month.
  • 11 2
 Interesting thing is a lot of the same cities are still in the top 10 if I change the query to only count rides. Park City, Utah Bellingham, Washington Bend, Oregon Draper, Utah Phoenix, Arizona Issaquah, Washington Flagstaff, Arizona Ogden, Utah Missoula, Montana Salt Lake City, Utah
  • 4 10
flag pinnityafairy (Aug 10, 2017 at 15:08) (Below Threshold)
 www.pinkbike.com/photo/14971407
  • 2 15
flag pinnityafairy (Aug 10, 2017 at 15:09) (Below Threshold)
 www.pinkbike.com/photo/14971407
PB home of the fake NEWS
  • 8 5
 @weezyb: Damn, you clearly don't know where to ride in Park City then. Gnarly DH (NCS, Canyons DH), big jump trails (Tsunami, Raspberry Lane), epic (Crest), and everything in between. The only sage brush is in a couple of spots close to neighborhoods. You should give it a try again and climb up a bit into the aspens and pines.
  • 7 4
 @MD-dh-rider: I said 10 or so trails were worth it. And what you listed makes the cut. And sorry but crest isnt in pc.
  • 3 1
 since when is knowing a simple join statement make you a 'geek'?
  • 2 0
 @canadaka: the next step is to gamify it to increase unique users.
  • 10 2
 @properp: You're free to always go elsewhere. I hear mtbr is nice this time of year.
  • 2 0
 Maybe going off total miles ridden or simply # of rides logged rather than trails ridden would be a better count. There are numerous ways we could slice this data--I wish there were a way we could have access to it through a public Tableau instance or something.
  • 2 0
 @dsirl: Have you been there? It's 5 minutes from my house and it's overcrowded (at least on the harder climbs and more technical downs).
  • 6 0
 @weezyb: you should live somewhere that is flat. Id trade my left nut to live beside a trail network like Park City.
  • 8 3
 @rockyflowtbay: He simply doesn't know what he's talking about or what the IMBA standards are for trail system ratings. If you're into XC, a beginner to casual advanced bike park/jumper its one of the better places to be. However you can easily find more than a few trails in the PC area that will make you feeling fuzzy by the end of it regardless of what type of riding or what ability level you are.
  • 3 0
 It's also counting total volume, not per capita. According to this, South Florida is one of the top destinations for MTB'ing in North America....except it's not. It's just that they have a large population, thus counting more riders. It needs a per capita figure relative to number of total residents within that region/city/county.
  • 3 0
 @canadaka: I appreciate these kinds of updates. Keep it up!
  • 1 0
 @canadaka: Perhaps count number of unique rider 'days' - if a region has 1 rider doing at least 1 ride on any given day that's 1 point. Add up the points and score. That should reduce the bias of flatter trail centres tending to get more miles and shuttled trails won't jump to the top if counting vertical metres.
  • 2 0
 @Connerv6: Yep, plus, if you get to the parking lot anytime after 7am on the weekends, good luck finding a parking spot.
Corner Canyon is great and a lot, ALOT of time & energy has been put into the trail system but this area is a perfect example of a trail system being "loved to death". It's a multi-use system with bikers, hikers and horsey people as users.
Draper City is going to shit when they see this info, they have been marketing this area as a "MTB destination" for years and have half the money to build a Velodrome on the property.
Cool place to ride but unless you ride early on a weekday, it can be frustrating with the crowds.

b.
  • 2 0
 Cool 5h1t posting the query and the conversation.

I've found sometimes that the analyzing and understanding "all that data" you gather is often far more difficult than any process(es) created to gather the information.

I wrote a system a couple of years ago that creates and manages participation lists for surveys for a 150K kid school system. Maintaining consistency and understanding exactly how the various processes affect that data has been a far greater challenge!!! Especially since the requirement came out of no where and I had a month to the finish line. The follow on being that we couldn't accurately predict how all of the then un-knonwn conditions would affect the system.
  • 2 2
 @weezyb: Have to agree. 500 miles of dirt sidewalks, 29 miles of other.
  • 3 0
 @nonk: There is good riding there for sure. Just a TON of very meh riding. Unlike Oakridge which is also a gold medal town that has almost zero filler riding, just banger after banger.
  • 1 0
 @weezyb: I'm with you. But, to be fair, the IMBA rating is as a Ride Center, right? My understanding is that those criteria have more to do with the supporting infrastructure (trailhead kiosks, water, toilets, signage, accommodations, etc., etc.) and less to do with the 'radness' of the trails.
  • 1 0
 @namdoogttam: Maybe a "quality per mile" rating then?
  • 3 0
 @jerryhazard: smilies per hour.
  • 1 0
 They should hire you!
  • 1 0
 @Rigidjunkie: LOL favorite quote of all of pink pike this year "only strava beat others..."

well done. for the record, I rarely out stravas anyone.
  • 44 0
 All I know is I'm not riding Phoenix in July.
  • 7 0
 I live here and I dont.
  • 9 5
 @scary1: you say that but there are over 400 rides logged on Trailforks in Phoenix for July. And based on some trail studies our data only captures around 5% of total riders. So people are definitely riding Phoenix in July.
  • 5 0
 Seriously, wtf.
  • 4 1
 It's monsoon season though. You can squeeze in a few decent rides here and there. Last week's ride was at 88 around 6 PM - not too bad with a breeze in the shade.
  • 3 0
 Yea it's pretty brutal, even are super early starts have things cooking off at 90 degrees. You do get use to it though if your local and there really is a surprising amount of people that ride. Best part is when we get the occasional cool day and you just feel unstoppable on the trails which is the best feeling ever.
  • 3 1
 @canadaka: "So people are definitely riding Phoenix in July."
A lot of mountain bikers live there, and they all ride at night or early morning (I lived there). No one is traveling to Phoenix to ride in the summer though; it is not a summer riding "destination".
  • 7 1
 After living here a while, you just get over it and ride. If it's under 105, I consider it "not too hot" and I ride, dig, or trail run six days a week all summer, usually around 5 AM. A lot of riders ride at night with lights too. Not trying to brag or pretend it's nice. It's brutal. But I love being outside too much to let the temps shut me down for half the year.
  • 2 0
 @oldmanjoe : Suicidal Maniacs MTB Club must have a Phoenix chapter.
  • 1 3
 @BiNARYBiKE: okay but it's not 105 at 5am...
  • 4 1
 @canadaka: I have lived in Phoenix all of my life. 118 degrees on the trails hasn't stopped me yet, just drink about a gallon and a half of water before I hit the trails. Although, part of the fun in riding in the heat is you pretty much have the trails to yourself!
  • 2 0
 @COnovicerider: right. If I can get out when it's cooler, I do. I'm just saying that above 105 is about where I draw the line personally when I'm considering a midday or afternoon ride.
  • 6 0
 It's actually pretty cool. You can drink 100oz of water on a ride and not have to pee.
  • 1 0
 @canadaka: i said "i live here..and ..I dont"
Thats all i said.
  • 3 0
 I am one of those early morning riders, rides might get shorter in the summer, but most everyone I know keeps riding. I bet Phoenix numbers are off the charts in the "winter" though. Also we probably have one of the highest rides per year averages. #nosnow #norain
  • 2 0
 @BiNARYBiKE: I hear you man. But for Twinclan riding in 118 degree heat. Dude, be careful. That type of heat kills people.
  • 1 0
 I don't get how so many of these popular spots are in Desert states. Utah, Arizona etc. Do people ride at night or something?
  • 3 1
 Just read the comments. People ride at night or early morning. Got it.
  • 3 0
 @tom666: plus for half the year it's 70 degrees and sunny every single day.
  • 2 0
 @BiNARYBiKE: yeah, but it still gets dark at 5:30pm in the winter. After work rides are impossibly hot in the summer and dark in the winter. Don't get me wrong, night rides are fun, but they get old when they make up a majority of your rides.
  • 21 0
 Trailforks is seriously awesome. Beautiful graphics, trustworthy content, great integration into a lot of PB articles, the ability for useres to create trails, and even Strava integration to seamlessly mark the trails you have ridden. Keep it up guys! (Now if only there was a Pinkbike app...)
  • 4 0
 Agreed that the service is very good and they're dong some neat stuff. It's a smart way to "product-ize" rider data and offer analysis to the industry for research and marketing. I highly doubt gathering all of this data is only about supporting advocacy Wink
  • 2 1
 @robwhynot: It is now, we don't have the time or resources to do anything else! Not saying we can't in the future though.
  • 1 0
 @canadaka: so much potential...
  • 1 0
 Agreed. I just did a trip out west and it was my first time really using Trailforks. It was a wonderful tool and helped me find all sorts of great stuff (and not get lost).
  • 13 0
 Holy crap yes! I'm from Utah and I flat out avoid Draper/Corner canyon because of the crowds. And this last weekend I rode in Park city and it was the same story. There are a lot of great things happening with the growth of our sport but when you have to share the trails with that many people it starts to not be as fun. I admit that I am kind of selfish that way and like that mountain biking gets you away from people...
  • 14 5
 this is exactly why locals don't turn on trailforks...Don't come to NC it sucks...terrible trails, too hot, bad beer, no fun..none.
  • 11 0
 Do Canada!
  • 5 0
 I will next time
  • 5 0
 I can give you the stats if you want : on the podium : whistler, squamish, and North van ! Honorable mention to Mont Saint Anna which saw a huuuge increase last week-end with a average speed per rider barely believable...
OK, I am stereotyping here but they are definitely the most pocular spots.
  • 3 0
 It would be really cool and BENEFICIAL for the local communities for the "proper" names to be used for Vermont and North Caroline. Great riding in Dupont. Wish I had been to Kingdom Trails to check it out - SOON!!!

Kingdom Trails - Vermont
Dupont State Forest - NC
  • 1 0
 we do have a region in our hierarchy for Kingdom trails. But I choose to base the list on city regions.
www.trailforks.com/region/kingdom-trails-4720
  • 1 0
 These two are the only two on this list I've ridden. Had the same thought as you but I was just excited to see these places on a list with all the countless west coast options
  • 5 0
 Cedar Mountain AKA DuPont State Park. Great network of flowy and some rough/rocky (Burnt Mtn trail!) trails. Awesome rides are to be had at this park.
  • 3 1
 Nope. Terrible trails. I don't recommend them
  • 8 4
 Will I get downvoted here for saying that pretty much all the Draper trails kinda suck? Jacobs Ladder is the only decent one, and its not a top 10 for Utah. @scott-townes You'll back me up, right?
  • 2 0
 Jacobs and now levitate, but Levi is a jump trail. I like them a lot, but I ride them mostly out of convince. They're super awesome beginner trails for folks like my wife who don't take MTB super serious. They are crowded though. Park city is awesome and it's got a sweet mix of stuff. Gotta get up early and start riding at the crack of dawn to beat that rush. Hard to beat the cooler temps of PC this time of year. I like riding eagle mountain. Flintstone is awesome and it's like a ghost town out there.
  • 6 2
 hamnswiss -> don't be a noob.

Lotsa people worked their asses off to build a super accessible sweet trail network for all levels of riding.

It's an awesome resource for local riders especially when the higher elevation tails are covered in snow.

It's not alpine singletrack or the Canyons bike park or a destination out-of-towners need to hit, but it's a growing and super accessible network for thousands that want to fit in a quick spin before or after work without having to drive up the canyon or over to park city.
  • 1 0
 @UtahBikeMike: I actually don't like levitate that much. It gets so much traffic that its completely blown out. I htink the Road to Arcylon is better, but as @WasatchEnduro said its higher elevation and can't be ridden as early in the spring. I actually do get up to ride at 6am everyday- I rode Payson this morning. Hobble Creek and Payson Canyon have some hidden gems of trails, if you can get a local to show you where they are (you won't find them on trailforks).
  • 1 1
 @hamncheez:

The fact that it's blown out and rough keeps all the joeys off it after they ride it once. It'll be better next year after they touch it up and the soil packs in. It's still good for being a brand new trail.
  • 1 0
 @UtahBikeMike: true, when the soil packs in it will change a ton. Also, I've only ridden it when it hasn't rained in a long stretch
  • 6 0
 Why is Kingdom Trails listed as Lyndonville, VT instead of East Burke?
  • 1 0
 I would have expected Pinkbike and Trailforks to know this by now.
  • 1 0
 Go in and change it!
  • 1 0
 Kingdom Trails is setup as a large unbrella region which the towns of Lyndonville & East Burke are in.
www.trailforks.com/region/kingdom-trails-4720
  • 7 0
 Kirkland, ha!!
  • 8 0
 Costco trails!
  • 4 1
 Hmm, July? When I see Phoenix, AZ (WTF?) but not Denver, CO, I question the method used to gather this info. With that said, I make an annual trip to Phoenix... in December.
  • 4 1
 Why phx when Flagstaff and Sedona are so close!!! with real trails
  • 1 0
 @insanebiker6:
Can you please elaborate on what you consider “real trails”?
  • 5 0
 Oddly, nothing in Omaha is mentioned.
  • 2 0
 I ride all over Washington and BC, but I don't strava or do electronics. As my friend says, if it didn't happen on Strava it didn't happen. Well, I'll see you out on the trail I guess.
  • 1 0
 Love it! Keep these posts coming! This is exactly what PB needs more of. Solid posts, good discourse and dialogue by the members suggesting improvements or alterations or downright objections.. in the end we all win. way better than a glove review!
  • 1 0
 Late to this one, and not a DBA (systems guy), but wouldn't you want to use select top 10 vs limit 10 to get the highest count? And yes, use distinct as part of your query.

SELECT distinct top 10 region.rid, region.title, region.alias, p.title AS prov_title, tr.description, COUNT(*) AS total
FROM wostrailforks.ridelog_trails rt
JOIN wostrailforks.trail t ON rt.trailid=t.trailid
JOIN wostrailforks.ridelog r ON rt.ridelogid=r.id
JOIN wostrailforks.trail_index i ON t.trailid=i.nid
JOIN wostrailforks.region ON i.city=region.rid
JOIN wostrailforks.region p ON i.prov=p.rid
JOIN wostrailforks.region_text tr ON region.rid=tr.rid
WHERE YEAR(FROM_UNIXTIME(r.created)) = '2017' AND MONTH(FROM_UNIXTIME(r.created)) = '7' AND t.difficulty NOT IN (1,7) AND i.country='3001' AND i.city>0
GROUP BY i.city
ORDER BY total DESC
--LIMIT 10
  • 1 0
 MySQL does not have a "SELECT TOP x" function. In mysql you use the limit and because I'm ordering by "total" it's the same result.
  • 1 0
 @canadaka: looking at the map in general it appears that population density + mountains = more rides. that to me is pretty boring common sense information but compare that data against population density and you get to see where mountain biking is a living breathing part of the community rather than just telling us what we already know.
  • 2 0
 Cant forget about Santa Cruz! perfect weather all year, Good beer, the best trails and hands down the chillest people around!
  • 1 0
 It's absolutely scorching here in South Texas, but I still manage to ride all the nice secret spots nearby! I want to establish an inexpensive/free bike park down here someday....
  • 1 0
 If I remember correctly, Memorial Park in Houston has some rad trails.
  • 1 0
 @drinkgoodbikes: I'll definitely check it out on my next day off! It's only an hour long drive from where I live!
  • 2 0
 @drinkgoodbikes: Also, I believe you're the first person to ever respond to one of my comments! hahaha
  • 1 0
 Wanted to check if Bham would make it on the list, Bam! Playing with fire posting the query but I'm really glad you did. makes me wish I had read access of my own!
  • 1 0
 Pretty sure that sign at the top of Big Rock exists solely so people can lean their bikes on it and take pictures. I've seen that exact shot with so many different bikes...
  • 3 0
 Forget going to Whistler. Next stop NYC the mountain biking mecca!
  • 3 0
 Northeast is hot! what can we say
  • 2 0
 This based on population density as much as whats popular. Guess where people dream of riding. Probably not on this list.
  • 1 0
 I was gonna say this. The most riding is going to occur where the most people live. Moab for example has a population of 5,000 roughly. Colorado springs has a population of 400,000+.

Although admittedly the population disparity could be larger or smaller based on nearby cities. I'm too lazy to check though.
  • 3 0
 Cool article, more please!
  • 3 0
 Limt 100! Limit 100!
  • 1 0
 ...and find #1 for each state!
  • 1 0
 @namdoogttam: this page lists the top 3 trails in each state, but I could do a page like that but for riding areas in each state. www.trailforks.com/trails/all/topuscanada

Would be nice to have such a page dynamic where the user could specify a date range, but because there is so much data these queries can be slow.
  • 1 0
 @canadaka: As a GIS geek I've been enjoying trailforks and the data/stats it provides. I realise it started in North America, and most of the users are there, but it would be good if it was a less North American centered.

For example this page:
www.trailforks.com/trails/all/top

It shows all the top trails in the world (great), but yet they are still all in USA/Canada when you look at rating/ridden (due to the user base of trailforks). With all the filters on the right hand side, could you please add in a filter for 'country'.

It would be useful if your visiting a country, say I was planning a trip to NZ, I could select NZ and see the most popular trails in that country.
  • 4 0
 @TrevorPage: You can do this, visit the trails tab for the NZ region page. Then sort the page by "global ranking".
www.trailforks.com/region/new-zealand/trails/?sort=t.global_rank&order=desc

Our trail ranking formula I try and tweak to take out some bias, but it's hard when there is so much more data points for trails in North America and BC in particular... We also have the best trails in the world here in BC... Wink
  • 2 0
 Phoenix? =O areyoucrazy? xD
  • 2 1
 There is a lot of people riding there, must be so hot!
  • 1 0
 @canadaka: Because a lot of mountain bikers *live* there, lol. When I lived there, I only rode at night during the summer. I guarantee you, it is NOT a summer destination (the rest of the year though...).
Edit: just realized that I already responded to canadaka in another post...
  • 1 0
 This was great, can't believe St. Eds and Big Finn Hill made it on Pinkbike. Smile My local trails are famous!
  • 2 0
 North Carolina and Phoenix in July.... are the trails indoors?
  • 2 0
 Hey our NW mountains rarely even get up to 80 in the summer...but yeah...the rest of NC is pretty hot in July ;-)
  • 2 0
 Get It Surveyed, nerds!
  • 2 0
 Nothing to see here in Colorado Springs. Move along!
  • 2 0
 same thing I was saying when I saw we made the top 10.
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 @hitechredneck: no one will put in the work for those trails lol goons only
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 So the more confusing a trail system is the more likely it will show on the report.
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 nice! lydonville VT is area that im from amd colorado springs is where i live for 20 years now. ????????
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 @trevormay. Can you do canadas top riding as well...nice write up!
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 I will after Crankworx, will make some tweaks to the query after feedback on this one.
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 @canadaka: thanks ! Im sure the top 10 will be in bc.......just hopefully not my town!!!
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 Part of the reason I left Pennsylvania for the west coast. Plus I can ride year round.
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 Moab too hot... but we're out here in PHX gettin it in!
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 There's MTB trails on the east coast of Florida?
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 Yeah go to Canada all the good trails are there !
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 Awesome you posted the query!
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 Phoenix? July? Who?
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 not me, this is my 'off season'...
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 No Alaska? Shame on you PB.
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 And Guam got shunned too! For shame!
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 now if I only lived near these trails...
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 Let's keep it stealth mode in the Bay Area to minimize foot traffic!
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 So its safe to say the best mountain biking is in the west...
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 Draper and Park City are my #1 and #2 favorite places to ride.
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 No just bias writers that think they are right about everything and censor stuff. I'm sure this comment will be erased soon
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 leave your technology at home you sad nerds







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