Best Mountain Bike Trails in Napier
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Extremely difficult
3.6 km
-568m
A hand built, technical and steep descending, single track. The trail weaves back and forth across the west facing ridge. The Trail utilises natural features (stumps, limestone rocks, slips, gullies), with natural terrain will be preserved as much as possible. Benching will is kept to a minimum with some low berms and catchers. This is a technical trail with some steep descents.
Intermediate
1.9 km
18m
-166m
1h 42m
A digger built trail descending flow trail following the ridge down and around to its intersection with Blackberry trail approx. 5% gradient average. The trail has no surprises and is suitable for novice and entry level riders.
Easy
1.1m
659m
-202m
A digger built, XC climbing trail benched all the way and be approx. 2 metres wide weaving its way up the hill between the carpark and magog road, lots of switchbacks, bottom part of the west bottom to top trail.
Easy
1m
29m
-34m
4h 38m
A digger built two way XC trail navigating around the foot of the hill above the old Pace flats area. There is some wooden bridges to cross the creeks. The is no surprises and suitable for novice and entry level riders.
Intermediate
2.3m
62m
-87m
10h 52m
A digger built cross country flow trail with climbing and descending. The trail follows the contour of the old lower magog trail and switchbacks up the hill and gets in amongst the big rock formations, it traverses along the face and cross over the gully into the old bolt and boulder trails areas making the most of the rocks and features. The trail utilises natural contours and features where possible, (limestone rocks, gullies). It is digger benched all the way and be approx. 1200mm wide a continuous flow of rollers, berms and catchers. The trail has no surprises everything is roll able for all levels of riders, experienced riders will enjoy it riding at speed.
Extremely difficult
196m
-40m
It is a G6 expert trail that starts with digger built section with a large avoidable stepdown gap jump, into natural terrain before crossing magog road into a bit more digger built. The trail traverses and descends the gulleys with a narrow technical trail , it then descends a steep ridge with large drop offs and chutes, at the bottom of this it joins a digger built mortorway section with a large 12 metre avoidable creek gap jump, and then into some large step ups and more jumps before finishing across the wooden twoman overpass. The trail is narrow and steep and has large drop-offs in parts at the edge of the trail. The trail joins onto Mrs Whippy to get to the shuttle pick up.
Extremely difficult
520m
-97m
It is a G6 expert trail that starts with digger built section with a large avoidable stepdown gap jump, into natural terrain before crossing magog road into a bit more digger built. The trail traverses and descends the gulleys with a narrow technical trail , it then descends a steep ridge with large drop offs and chutes, at the bottom of this it joins a digger built mortorway section with a large 12 metre avoidable creek gap jump, and then into some large step ups and more jumps before finishing across the wooden twoman overpass. The trail is narrow and steep and has large drop-offs in parts at the edge of the trail. The trail joins onto Mrs Whippy to get to the shuttle pick up.
Extremely difficult
215m
1m
-28m
It is a hand build G6 expert trail. The trail follows the ridges and gullies down to the Magog road skid site.The trail is steep, adding length to the original Bomber trail to make the full run more suitable for DH events.
Advanced
2.5 km
5m
-339m
A combination of hand and digger built, descending, single trail. Using old forestry skid trails and the natural terrain features. The trail traverses the ridge parallel to the top of Lugettps://www.trailforks.com/trails/luge-road/]Luge road[/L] then heads down the ridge to the east towards the Furn road intersection. This is a fast technical trail with some steep descents. Top section has three avoidable gap jumps, the lower section has a few steep natural terrain descents, the lower half of this trail is slippery in the wet.
Advanced
2.3 km
109m
-98m
4h 45m
A digger built cross country flow trail with climbing and descending. The trail switchbacks up the hill and gets in amongst the big rock formations, it traverses along the face and joins back in with bolt at the saddle, making the most of the rocks and features. It is digger benched all the way and be approx. 1200mm wide a continuous flow of rollers, berms and catchers. The trail has no surprises built with everything roll able for all levels of rider, experienced riders will enjoy it riding at speed.