Gorge Recreation Central

Mountain biking in the Gorge is some of the best in the United States. Trails wind through old-growth forest, along volcanic plains, and along wildflower-covered slopes. There are cross-country rides, freeride areas, shuttles, climbs, and just about anything else you could imagine riding your bike over.

The trails listed above are only a selection of what’s available to ride in the Gorge. I’ll be adding more as the weeks go by. In the meantime, if you’ve ridden a ride recently, please take the time to leave a comment with current trail conditions. Hopefully we can make this a centralized place for Gorge trail information.

In the future, I’ll GPS the trails, so you have a better idea of where they are and what they’re like. Someday, we’ll have vids and photos too!

Please take note of this upcoming work party:

> Project:
> Bottle Prairie Trail
> Saturday, October 24, 2009
> Drainage and trail hardening work
>
> When and where:
> Meet at Little John sno-park 930 am (junction of hwy 35 and fs 44)
> We’ll group up there
> I’d think that we’d be up at the trailhead by 10 am.
>
> Please bring for your own safety, comfort and general happiness:
> Lunch, water, long pants, hiking boots, gloves, bike helmet or hardhat
>
> Tools to bring:
> Please bring tools for the day’s work: Shovels, hoes, wheelbarrows, pulaskis and plastic buckets
> (wise trailmen mark their faves with tape or a sharpie).
> The USFS will provide some tools.
> Depending on the number of people, I may not have enough to go around.
>
> Wrap things up:
> around 3pm
>
> Things to remember:
> It gets dark at 4pm.
> It could be cold. It could be wet. It’s late October on the Mt. Hood National Forest.
> Cell phone coverage is spotty at best up on the trail.