Best Mountain Bike Trails in Cable Bay Adventure Park
Cable Bay Adventure Park is Nelson's premier adventure park offering 44+ mountain bike trails through native forest 15 minutes from the city center, with views over Delaware Bay. The park provides rentals, e-bikes, and kid's bikes for all abilities from intermediate to expert terrain, featuring the popular Bayview trail and family-friendly Fun Track on flat sections. Access is via affordable day passes or annual membership with maintained volunteer-built trail networks.
Trails
Showing 1 - 10 of 33 trails
Advanced
1.2m
-197m
11h 16m
Our newest Grade 4 edition to the map Think sunshine ridge, ridge lines with a nice and wide path flowing you down to the bottom valley through the native forest. Lots of varying under tire terrain - fun berms and great flow, similar to Veto in ways
Very difficult
976m
1m
-216m
6h 25m
Intermediate
262m
-23m
4h 28m
Intermediate
585m
-61m
2h 54m
Grade 3, fun and flowy through native, hand built
Very difficult
785m
-185m
4h 37m
The Cookie Crumble Ridge. The marbley native dirt on this trail makes the off-camber sections real fun. Combined with heaps of flowy berms are your only concern the surrounding. As the speed goes up, the trees come closer and closer to your handlebars. Watch out People tend to hug trees up here before!One of the new favourites. Check it out, you'll not regret it.
Extremely difficult
2m
3m
-386m
Courthouse Our newest addition to the trail network. A long decent woith 2km top to bottom. Access via Gamble trail only, terrain drops a lot of elevation, flow and loamy in the upper section with a couple of optional drops and off camber lines. You then approach a long techy ridge line that brings you round the front of a Knoll with an A line - B lie option here. Dropping to the forest floor through a series of tight, flowy "S" bends and finally off the brakes for a bit before the last bits of decent through beech forest territory. She's a stand out from the crowd thats for sure! Exit see's linking onto Poacher and then livewire
Extremely difficult
1m
6m
-175m
7h 32m
Think true Nelson double black diamond, steep and very commiting in top sections, some flow throughout the middle and native tech
Intermediate
774m
-112m
4h 56m
Probably the easiest trail in the park. A whole lot of berm goodness connected by open straights lines to pick up a bit of speed if wanted. Beginner and family friendly. Makes a good warm up lap and great to gain a bit of confidence to build up for the more demanding trails. A quick and easy 10 minutes pedal up the DH climb brings you to the start of this one. Enjoy
Very difficult
1.6m
5m
-292m
9h 53m
The all time classic of Cable Bay. Roll the dice and drop in into this beautiful rocky, rooty, technical singletrack which takes you from Blue Hill summit down to the Skywire. A long, full enduro run where it's always a bit of a gamble if you can make it all the way without putting a foot down. A pretty typical Nelson trail. Techy, narrow and heaps of spice. Absolute trailriding goodness. There is a small, non rollable tree log drop after about 100m from the top. Further down you will have a few different options to finish or continue your ride.
Intermediate
858m
7m
-63m
6h 45m
Happy Day's - A great flowy trail through the native connecting an awesome trio of grade 3 trails from the top Jungle boxer, Happy Day's and on to StingerA few roller coaster bits and a couple pinch climbs, good views from the ridge in places too