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Lake Stella Basin Trail and Mountain Freeride

Lake Stella Basin Trail and Mountain Freeride Mountain Bike Trail

Status

OPEN
Extremely difficult

Difficulty

Extremely difficult

Distance

4.6 km

Description

Lake Stella Basin Trail is an Expert Hike & Bike up and Expert to Extreme Ride down depending on if you come back down the trail or hit the shingle Ridge on you Left and descend to the saddle. Awesome feeling of getting your bike to the top with epic views. Then the ride down is not for the faint hearted.

Weather

Details

E-bike access

Class 1

Dogs

Allowed

Physical rating

Hard

Grade

-18.9% avg, -88.5% max

Last updated

26 Mar 2026

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Trail features

Other

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