Picture this: You’re on a camping and mountain biking road trip and life is good. Your biggest goals for each day are to find a scenic place to post up for the night and to ride a fun trail. Sure, you could camp in one place and ride in another, but things get extra dreamy when you’re literally camping in the same general zone as the trails. When you’re posted up close to the trailhead, that means you don’t have to break down camp each morning or load bikes onto racks or sort out who’s shuttling who. You can just pedal off from camp and skip the car entirely.
But finding a campsite that’s riding distance to high-quality mountain bike trails is harder than it sounds. So, we’re taking some of the homework out of it for you and sharing a few of our favorite places to camp where you can ride directly from your campsite.