Arbor Hills Nature Preserve Mountain Bike Trail

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 Metromess as soon as you hit the single-track. Nice single-track is all I need to forget how big and nasty it is getting to be around here. That and some good tires. If you’ve got the nerve, feel free to see how well you can follow the trail here as you let the bike find the line. But just remember, everybody I know, myself included, crashes here on a fairly regular basis. I think the trees jump around or something. This trail is squeezed into a couple of corners of a well-planned nature preserve. The city of Plano was wise enough to realize how fast the land around here was being gobbled up by developers, and therefore what an asset saving a few acres for nature could be. This trail is very well thought out, squeezing two miles of fine north Texas single-track into only a few acres of land. It’s all about conservation, children—they aren’t making any more land.