Hurstwood Mountain Bike Trails

Hurstwood Mountain bike trails are close to Burnley in Lancashire. These MTB trails border Hurstwood Reservoir in the adjoining woods.

There is a very short Blue graded trail and a lot of natural trail riding here. The Mary Towneley route passes here also.

Hurstwood Trail (Blue)

• The Hurtswood Blue graded MTB trail is a good beginners and novices trail with short slopes, corners, and berms. It has only around 600m of fire road in the overall 1.6km of flowing singletrack. 

Natural Trails

• Pennine Bridleway and Rams Clough (7km)
  • This goes up past Hurstwood reservoir on the Mary Townley Loop. There is a bit of climbing and descending, surfaced bridleways, 'natural bridleways' and double track.
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• Coal Clough Wind farm to Hurstwood and Back (8.5km)        
  • This route starts at the Coal Clough wind farm and goes along a section of the Mary Townley Loop to get across to the Hurstwood trail before retracing it steps back to the Coal Clough car park.
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• Duke's Cut and Gorple Stones (25.8km)   
  • This route goes through open moors crossing a variety of terrain (some quite exposed). 
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Groups and Clubs

• PMBA

Other Stuff

• The closest bike shops are On Yer Bike in Burnley, Ride On in Rawtenstall or Blazing Saddles in Hebden Bridge. 
• The blue trail project was part of a £300,000 investment to transform Worsthorne Moor by United Utilities for walkers, equestrians and mountain bikers and was an initiative between United Utilities, Pennine Prospects and Lancashire County Council. Designed by Rowan Sorrell.