Kielder Mountain Bike Trail Centre

Martin :

All the trails are great if you need help or advice the staff at the bike place are brilliant and the food at the castle cafe is always great.

Excellent place to be

Debby:

Brilliant everytime I go

All the trails are great if you need help or advice the staff at the bike place are brilliant and the food at the castle cafe is always great.

beardedbiggs:

Keilder has to be one of the most scenic trail centers a have been to. A lovely place to explore walk and ride. Choice of 3 red trails here. the deadwater trail, red with an optional black loop up to deadwater fell. At the start there is a small skills area with 4 different lines on it. Good way to get the heart going. Once we got going we found the climbs not to severe and the descents weren't to bad either, that was until we did the deadwater fell climb! Its black graded and steep and rocky and seemed to take forever. Worth it though for the view from the top. 1900 feet above sea level and on a clear day you can see both east and west coasts. The descent from there is very good, what looks like a fire road from some videos is actually a loose steep and fast ride to the bottom. Well worth the long hard climb. Back onto the red after that. A fun drop down into the forest which looked like it had recently been repaired from storm damage. The rest of the return route back to car park was pretty good, some sections could have had a bit more to them but overall it is well worth riding. the lonesome pine trail heads the pother way out the car park and follows the blue route around kielder water for a while. (very scenic) it then climbs through the forrest with a few ups and downs with the odd rock tjhrown in. the climb up to the boardwalk seemed to last forever and was hard work (it was also 31 degrees c when we rode) the highlight is the boardwalk though. wasnt sure which tree was the "lonesome" pine as there was a few up there! once off the boardwalk some of the descents from there were all really loose. seemed to zap your speed as very little grip. the ones that werent loose however were very fast and rocky. great fun.

A lot of fun Amazing views Good variety of trails Middle of nowhere

dan:

I always been going to kielder, recently due to logging its lost few trails, but now with ndh and fc help they getting rebuild, wish there were more black grade trails with lots of features, similar to into the valley, forest dive etc

Beautiful scenery, trails getting rebuilt, bike shop, helpful staff

Mally:

I would recommend staying here for at least one night to explore the full range of trails, you would really struggle to get round the whole place in a day.

it does not get full of riders stopping talking at the end of trails or at the start, you need to spend some time here to appreciate the full options available. my first ride out I went towards the northshore section, this is slippery but fun in the cold and wet, you need to bare in mind that it does rain here. my next ride out I drove from the lodges to the trail center and started from there, and I was shocked how much I did enjoy it there was parts that where difficult rock or boulder sections to climb, ( even if you where on a motorbike). but the downhill parts justified the climbs and for me that is what makes me happy. Nothing worse then climbing for hours to find the down hill part is c**p.

Wadam00:

The red trail was ok, few to many fireroads but good climb up onto the Boardwalk. I found it a bit hard going on the HT but this might of been set up issues as it was only my 2nd ride on it. Last descent back to the castle from the observatory was fun. The wife and I did a full circuit around the reservoir with the osprey blue added in. For a family trail the reservoir trail is amazing with great views and just enough in the trail to keep me happy. The blue was a blast, the wife loved it and she is a relative beginner. The final descents had me smiling all the way down.

Amazing views osprey blue trail is fun Long distance riding possible Good facilities on the west side of the reservoir