Welcome to Mountain Bike Cumbria!
There are many thousands of reasons to come and ride your mountain bike on Cumbria's sweet trails, even if you already live here! Here I have placed photography of my travels, some of them might not be from Cumbria or even closer to home in the Lake District, but there is more information and trails to be found around. Delve in, discover more and take notes! Then ride!
Well as of April 2022 I've finally got around to start rebuilding Mountain Bike Cumbria. The content is very old so there's likely things that have changed. I am going to go though the content soon as it's now in a very easy format to edit :)
Buttermere & Crummock Water, Keswick.
Dodd & Latrigg, Keswick.
Ennerdale Forest, Ennerdale Forest (nr Buttermere).
Skiddaw Down Hill, Keswick.
Black Crag, Knipe Fold, Skelwith Bridge.
Circuit of Loughrigg, Elterwater, Hodge Close & Ironkeld, Ambleside.
Claife Heights, Hawkshead.
Crook, Underbarrow & Winster, Sun Inn, Crook.
Esthwaite, Esthwaite nr. Grizedale, Near Sawrey and Far Sawrey.
Garburn Pass, Garburn Pass.
Grizedale (15km), Satterthwaite.
Grizedale - The North Face Trail, Satterthwaite.
High Newton Circuit, The Crown Inn, High Newton.
Jenkin Crag, Ambleside to Town End.
Kentmere Anticlockwise Loop, Staveley.
The Kentmere Loop, Staveley.
Lambrigg Fell, Roan Edge Quarry on A 684 near Jct 37 of the M6.
Langdale Loop, Ambleside.
Loughrigg Fell, Ambleside.
Walna Scar, Tover, nr Coniston.
Whinfell, Borrowdale and Bretherdale, Kendal.
Windermere Lake, Windermere.
Brant Fell, Sedbergh.
C2C, Whitehaven to Sunderland.
Keswick Dismantled Railway, Keswick.
Sadgill Epic, Sadgill, nr Kendal.
Loughrigg Circuit, Ambleside.
Kendal via Natland to Sedgwick, down to Hincaster and over to Summerlands and back via the Helm, Kendal.
Otter Bank to the top of Whinfell Common, up the Borrowdale valley to the Shap road, down to Garnett Bridge and back, Otter Bank, Kendal.
Gamblesmire Lane, around Bell Hill, through Underbarrow, over to Brigsteer and back, Kendal.
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