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Well, just go ahead and dig me a hole up on the ‘bone, you can bury me right there when I go on to mountain bike heaven. This place is almost too good to be true. Many miles of superior trails, friend
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Saint Jo
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TX
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- 20 miles
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Five minutes from where I live, and then about ten light years to the left of everyday life. This is a delightful place to forget the city grind. You’ll forget you’re still in a tiny corner of the Met
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This is still an excellent trail—I have enjoyed every ride I’ve ever done here. It has more climbs than a lot of local trails, and it’s tougher because of the loose limestone surface that predominates
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Dallas
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TX
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Mountain Biking
- 10 miles
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I raced here in the rain once, long ago. It was evil and grueling, slow and slippery, and I had no fun. On the other hand, I’ve had some great times riding these trails with my friends, when the condi
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Waco
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TX
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Mountain Biking
- 10 miles
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This a place that you really oughtta go check out sometime. It’s pretty typical Texas Hill Country—broken limestone and rolling hills—but this is the only place I know about with real dinosaur tracks.
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Glen Rose
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TX
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Mountain Biking
- 10 miles
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These trails don’t see nearly the traffic that their quality warrants, so odds are you’ll have some peace and quiet for your shredding pleasure. And don’t forget to check out the five or six sets of b
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Glen Rose
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TX
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Mountain Biking
- 7 miles
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This ride has everything. Speedy flats, climbs of all lengths and intensities, and some roller-coastery downhills that will test the limits of your tire tread are all assembled for your enjoyment at C
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Duncanville
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TX
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Mountain Biking
- 11 miles
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The beginning section of this ride offers some fun technical challenges, and there are plenty of scenic views of Cedar Lake when the bike trail hooks up with the nature trail. This loop is definitely
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Cleburne
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TX
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Mountain Biking
- 7 miles
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Multi-use, mainly equestrian trail in a very nice campground offers a good ride for beginning mountain bikers. The Cross Timbers is a pretty nice trail. It’s not so challenging—not at all— and it’s no
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Mineral Wells
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TX
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Mountain Biking
- 5 miles
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We started building this trail in 1993. Steve Mayo was the man who laid most of it out, and countless other people helped flag and cut and still help groom it to this day. This place gets a couple of
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Dallas
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TX
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Mountain Biking
- 11 miles
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This is a sweet collection of sneaky single-track, and it’s one I love. This is a good place to do laps for conditioning, both mental and physiological. It’s not so hard or so far that you can’t have
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McKinney
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TX
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Mountain Biking
- 8 miles
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I have ridden here in the dead of winter, and I have hit the trails here when it was so hot you could suck a PowerBar right out of the wrapper. I had fun both times. There isn’t another place around q
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Glen Rose
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TX
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Mountain Biking
- 15 miles
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This is a sweet little neighborhood trail that the locals use for everything you might imagine: dog walking, jogging, hiking, biking. It’s nestled between a tributary to Grapevine Lake and a housing d
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Grapevine
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TX
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Mountain Biking
- 5 miles
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The trails on Ray Bob started out kind of weak. The state drove a bulldozer through the trees at Isle du Bois Park and called it a mountain bike trail. Then they built the Greenbelt Corridor trails be
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Denton
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TX
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Mountain Biking
- 7 miles
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A fairly easy ride with just a few challenging spots, Knob Hill is a fun and underused trail that feels more remote than other Dallas-area rides. Though there are a few spots within the opening mile o
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Roanoke
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TX
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Mountain Biking
- 11 miles
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I still love to ride out here. You get more different terrain here than in any other ride in the general area of the Metromess. From fine north Texas prairie, covered with native grasses, to sandy bot
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Lewisville
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TX
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Mountain Biking
- 11 miles
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This is still my favorite trail. It is an excellent place for a beginner to start finding their dirt-legs. In fact, I probably learned to ride a mountain bike here. I mean really learned about tossing
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Dallas
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TX
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Mountain Biking
- 5 miles
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Rails to Trails projects are wonderful things. At their best they make good use of unused land and tie communities together with avenues other than those built for auto traffic. The Lake Mineral Wells
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Mineral Wells
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TX
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Mountain Biking
- 20 miles
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This is Dallas’s most-used trail, and for good reason. A long stretch of hard-packed singletrack that winds through some gorgeous woodland, the Northshore Trail offers riding hospitable to anyone brav
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Flower Mound
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TX
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Mountain Biking
- 15 miles
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This is Mecca, the trail people think of when they talk about north Texas. Most folks just call it Lake Grapevine, but there are two other nice trails on Grapevine Lake. Still, this is the only trail
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Oh man, this place is sweet. It’s a series of single-track loops right in the middle of a major Metromess suburb. It has something to offer riders of all skill and endurance levels. There’s enough eas
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Garland
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TX
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Mountain Biking
- 10 miles
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I have ridden and hiked here many times; this is a nice quiet trail tucked away on the north side of Lake Lavon. It may get a little noisier during duck season, though, since hunters have access right
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McKinney
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TX
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Mountain Biking
- 6 miles
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The ice-cream scoop of a hill that the Bar-H trails traverse is a grunt going up and a blast coming down, and there’s plenty of fast singletrack in the surrounding flatlands, too. The land is used to
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Saint Jo
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TX
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Mountain Biking
- 8.5 miles
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Somebody told me about this place recently. I had been to the park before but had no idea they’ve got such a monster mountain bike trail. This is probably some of the hardest riding for a hundred mile
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Cleburne
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TX
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Mountain Biking
- 7 miles
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You know, I can’t even tell you the story about the windmill, but there must be one. This place has really grown up since I wrote about it before. There are now some serious techie bits around, mostly
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DeSoto
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TX
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Mountain Biking
- 5 miles
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