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Mt Hutt Bike Park

Mountain Bike Trails in Mt Hutt Bike Park

Mt Hutt Bike Park boasts 40km+ of well-maintained trails ranging from family-friendly XC loops to epic singletrack and double-black diamond technical descents, with jumps, berms, bridge features, and easy-line alternatives for all skill levels. Free-access and located off the Mt Hutt ski field road near Methven, this year-round park attracts riders from across the South Island and is home to native kea birds.

Trails

Showing 1 - 20 of 50 trails

Ajar

OPEN

Intermediate

2.2 km

169m

-22m

5h 35m

Ajar is a climbing link taking you from the Pinky's Skid site back onto front door to climb up for another lap.

Back Door

OPEN

Intermediate

1 m

122m

-619m

8h 48m

Back Door is a favorite with cross country rider taking you from Slicker Feta to the bottom carpark. The track is intermediate, majorly downhill but does have a small climb.

Beetle Bum

MINOR_ISSUE

Advanced

326 m

-86m

1h 44m

Beetle Bum is a short steep and off camber hand-made track descending from Wrightys to Back Door.

Black Panther

OPEN

335 m

-79m

6h 26m

Short, steep and spicy. A rebuild of the old Black Panther that existed before the logging.

Blues

OPEN

Advanced

568 m

-92m

1h 29m

Blues was an old ridable skidder road until it was fully rebuilt as a bike track in 2021 - kindly funded by Bruce Mc Clelland. Its fast and flowy with lots of berms, a bit of tech and a few jumps.

Bobs Bridge

OPEN

Advanced

1 m

1m

-143m

4h 7m

Bobs Bridge begins from the skid site just off the Mt Hutt. The track starts as the original Bobs Bridge and continues into an extension built in 2022. There are several jump options along the way along with the name sake bridge over the creek (or you can send the creek gap).

Build It Huck It

OPEN

430 m

-52m

A small section of gap jumps.

DHNZ

MINOR_ISSUE

2.6 km

5m

-399m

3h 15m

DHNZ is a steep bit of single track to finish your downhill run with.

Diggler DH

OPEN

639 m

-162m

3h 6m

Diggler is a steep and narrow downhill track, some have commented that is simply a dried up creek Diggler hosts a downhill race annually and was one of the few tracks to be untouched in the 2015 logging.

Dirt Mosh

OPEN

840 m

-36m

Short dirt jump track.

Dual Slalom

MINOR_ISSUE

Advanced

248 m

-16m

1h

A short Dual Slalom track to race your mates on.

Flaxes

OPEN

Advanced

122 m

-22m

34m

Flaxes is a short alternative to a steep section on the Main Downhill Line. Don't be fooled though, its not necessarily easy for all. It is steep, rooty and rocky - a challenge in the wet.

Freckles

OPEN

539 m

-143m

2h 23m

A short steep hand built track weaving through the pines.

Front Door

OPEN

Intermediate

3 m

176m

-33m

16h 5m

Front door is a graveled climbing track that is most commonly used to climb the park.

Front Door Extension

OPEN

Intermediate

496 m

41m

-19m

3h 52m

Front Door upper section, is an uphill track to avoid the steeper road, exiting next to the start of Back Door. Its then easy to cross the access road and continue up Treeverse to go higher.

Fuzz

SIGNIFICANT_ISSUE

4.0 km

66m

-563m

3h 12m

In 2023 the original Fuzzy track was extended right to the bottom of the hill, starting off flowy and turning into tech.

GNT

OPEN

159 m

-42m

1h 57m

"Gregs New Track" a short steep connector from To The Core onto Bobs Bridge.

Gentle Andy

OPEN

Easy

1 m

1m

-63m

2h 43m

Created by Wrighty late 2019 as an easy downhill link from the toll booth to the bottom car park.

Handy

OPEN

Advanced

825 m

12m

-157m

3h 59m

As the name suggests Handy is a hand built trail created by James, Stefan, Nick and other club volunteers over a period of 18 months starting in October 2022. With a narrower bench than most tracks at Hutt this track is unique in the park. It is fast and flowy with some mild tech.

Issy's Cut

OPEN

Intermediate

407 m

-42m

18m

A short fun connector that skips the steeper and more technical lines on the Main Downhill Line and Flaxes.