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Cable Bay Adventure Park

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 - 20 of 33 trails

Broken Gnome

OPEN

Advanced

1 m

-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.

CCR

OPEN

785 m

-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.

Cable Bay - Jungle Boxer

OPEN

Intermediate

585 m

-61m

2h 54m

Grade 3, fun and flowy through native, hand built.

Cable Bay DH

CLOSED

976 m

1m

-216m

6h 25m

Cable Bay DH Traverse

CLOSED

Intermediate

262 m

-23m

4h 28m

Courthouse

OPEN

2 m

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.

Deliverance

OPEN

1 m

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.

Formula 1

CLOSED

Intermediate

774 m

-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.

Gamble

OPEN

2 m

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.

Happy Days

OPEN

Intermediate

858 m

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 Stinger A few roller coaster bits and a couple pinch climbs, good views from the ridge in places too.

Harvey Street (Climb)

OPEN

Intermediate

1.5 km

144m

-33m

3h 11m

Harvey Street - climb continuing from south tour to the start of deliverance.

High Line - Flood exit

OPEN

441 m

3m

-59m

1h 49m

Flood line exit off broken gnome for when pitchers creek is too high to cross. Track will take you downstream to a bridge crossing that will put you onto "Livewire"Off camber and steep sections make this track at G5 access.

Hot Sauce

OPEN

627 m

-110m

3h 9m

Jungle Boxer Extension

OPEN

Intermediate

605 m

3m

-74m

3h 7m

An extension from the OG jungle boxer that brings you back to Bayview Road - making a loop back to the top of Pine line, Veto and Happy Days.

Jurassic

MINOR_ISSUE

3.2 km

-913m

8h 49m

LG (lower Gamble)

OPEN

204 m

1m

-29m

2h 43m

The last section of Gamble. A bit different than the rest. A spicy rockdrop into a tight left hand catch is making things quite interesting to start with. Followed by a few small natural doubles and some open flowy berms, things will come to an end quickly. Fortunately the pedal back up to the entry of the trail is less than 5 minutes and you can give it another shot. It can take more than one try to get a hang of it - perfect for a little session with the mates.

Left Hook

OPEN

Advanced

508 m

1m

-89m

Live Wire

OPEN

Intermediate

2 m

24m

-99m

9h 47m

Lost Time

OPEN

663 m

3m

-132m

3h 2m

Coming off the crumbly technical aspects of CCR, lost time takes a more flowy approach to the Native ridge with steeper, committing corners that drops you down about 250m to the creek bed where you'll join onto live wire to follow the trail out. Can be loose in very dry conditions.

Low Blow

OPEN

1.4 km

7m

-224m

A fun flow and techy G4 continuing on from "Left Hook" through the native manuka and finishing up down on "Bayview Road"