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Pan Pac MTB Park

Mountain Bike Trails in Pan Pac MTB Park

Pan Pac MTB Park is a purpose-built facility within the privately-owned Pan Pac Tangoio Forest in Hawke's Bay, featuring 71km of tracks and forest roads suitable for all ability levels from grade 2 to 6. The park is organized into distinct blocks with varying terrain and vegetation, from open windswept areas to shaded pine forest, and recent recovery efforts have expanded the trail network following Cyclone Gabrielle. A visitor permit is required for access, and dogs are strictly not allowed.

Trails

Showing 1 - 20 of 68 trails

Apex

OPEN

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.

Barley

OPEN

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.

Beam Me Up

OPEN

Easy

1 m

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.

Blackberry

OPEN

Easy

1 m

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.

Bolt

OPEN

Intermediate

2 m

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.

Bomber One

OPEN

196 m

-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.

Bomber Three

OPEN

520 m

-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.

Bomber Two

OPEN

215 m

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.

Bottle Rocket

OPEN

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.

Boulder

OPEN

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.

Brown Sugar

OPEN

Intermediate

2.7 km

10m

-125m

This is a digger built descending flow trail with progressive features, descending beside Mill Valley Road using the contour and features to the best advantage of the trail lots of berms, rollers and tabletops.

Cannonball Lector

MINOR_ISSUE

2 m

41m

-185m

12h 40m

A digger built descending technical trail with lots of jumps, hips and chutes, all are rollable, trail is fast, the trail is narrow in places and there are a lot of large drop offs on the edge of the trail, the bottom section is rooty and doesnt see much sun so can be slippery.

Cliffhanger

OPEN

920 m

-148m

Grade 5 track down the ridgeline with some very steep pitches and optional large gap jumps. Part way down you can turn off onto the even harder Maverick (Grade 6- double black diamond)

Dwyane

OPEN

587 m

-95m

A hand built, descending, technical single trail. Lots of gap jumps and feature, has trail filter at start if not comfortable with that do not proceed. The trail weaves back and forth across the west facing ridge. The Trail utilises natural features (stumps, limestone rocks, slips, gullies). Benching is kept to a minimum. Lots of berms and catchers. This is a technical trail with some steep descents. And large features.

Eeyore

OPEN

Easy

398 m

4m

-3m

A digger built wide easy grade 2 XC trail, it is close to the river with access to swimming. The trail has no surprises build suitable for novice and entry level riders.

Enterprise

OPEN

Easy

1.8 km

130m

-91m

3h 9m

A digger built, XC climbing trail benched all the way and be approx. 2 metres wide weaving its way up the hill between magog and maxxis roads middle part of the west bottom to top trail.

Esk Downhill

OPEN

Advanced

825 m

24m

-118m

2h 55m

A handbuilt narrow single trail trail traversing the skid site and then negotiing around down through numerous skidder trails, to join up with the twoman hub, it has a couple of steep switchback to negotiate.

Eskview

OPEN

Advanced

349 m

60m

8h 38m

A digger built two way XC trail from magog road to ridgeline road, is steep and has a difficult pinch to get out at the top that could require pushing.

Fossil Fuel

SIGNIFICANT_ISSUE

Advanced

2 m

72m

-115m

A hand built, descending, single track. Connecting to a digger cleared climbing track. The Trail utilises natural features (stumps, limestone rocks, slips, gullies) utilising the natural terrain as much as possible with benching kept to a minimum. Some low berms and catchers. The climbing trail utilises the old shooters 4wd track and has been digger cleared. This is a technical trail.

Gabby

OPEN

Easy

912 m

27m

-48m

A digger built wide easy grade 2 two way undulating XC link trail, fairly flat with slight descending. The trail has no surprises and is suitable for novice and entry level riders, it links the carpark climbing trail with the twoman hub.