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Wetherby Bike Trails (including the Red Kite Trail)
Avg 3.60
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  • Information:
  • Type: MTB Base
  • Riding: Cross Country,Pump Track,BMX
  • Distance(s): 21- 30km, 31km
  • Country: England
  • County: West Yorkshire
  • Website: Wetherby Bike Trails
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Description

Wetherby MTB trails include the 23 mile / 37 km Red Kite Trail, the Little Toe pump track, and the Devil's Toenail Bike Park. They can be found between Wetherby, Leeds, and Harrogate.

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Red Kite Trail

  • The 37 km Red Kite Trail starts from Wetherby and is made up of a series of trails on existing bridleways. It follows natural bridleways around Spofforth, Sicklinghall, Wood Hall, East Keswick, Bardsey, Hetchell and Bramham. The route is suitable for beginners, with some stony/rooty singletrack in places. Some bits can be muddy in wet weather.
  • Here's a route map

Little Toe Pump Track

  • The Little Toe pump track can be found in Millenium Field

 Devil's Toenail Bike Park

  • About a kilometre of trails with berms, jumps, drop offs and other features suitable for all ages and abilities.

Wetherby BMX Track

  • The old BMX track in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, was rebuilt in May 2025. Originally constructed in the mid-1980s, the track has been resurrected.

Other Stuff

  • You can connect with the local community for latest info and dig days on their Facebook Group

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  • If you have ridden any of the Wetherby trails then please leave a review and post your pictures, tracks and GPS videos to this listing. 
Steve Cordingley:
Avg 4.08
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Red Kite - Great (family friendly) trail

Not too technical, a decent distance, and moderate hills. Family friendly trail.

What do you like?

This is an excellent trail that can be tackled by the whole family. While there are a few minor challenges, a few hills that will get your heart going and mud galore when it's wet, it's also nearly all off road, runs through beautiful countryside and has some decent pub stops (notably Spofforth and Sicklinghall), where you'll find refreshment and food. Because it's in sections, it's also pretty easy to ride it in small chunks, and that is probably the main thing to make it family friendly. We've taken our seven-year-olds from Wetherby to Sicklinghall and back (distance about 17.5 Km) and they were stretched but loved it. This is very much a shared trail, with walkers, mountain bikers and horses and, here and there, farm traffic. That means that it's often not possible to go fast but, as I found when I had a couple of punctures last weekend, it also means there's lots of people to talk to, checking I was okay, had everything I needed, and so on. All in all, this is a great local resource and the people that took the trouble to waymark it have done a great service to their community.

What could be improved?

Honestly, these are small issues, but worth knowing about if you haven't done the trail yet. There are a few stretches of lanes, and so children and traffic combinations can be a problem where the lanes can't be avoided. There are a couple of very muddy sections which can reduce even hardened mountain bikers to walking and pushing. And the waymarks can sometimes be hard to spot, so for a first time around the trail, it's often necessary to stop and search when the way forward isn't obvious.

Would you recommend?

*Yes*

Date written:

25/11/2017 - about 8 years ago

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Rob white:
Avg 3.73
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Great local bike routes on bridleways and pump track for my so

Looking for somewhere to go for a gentle ride, or a quick blast, or taking someone new to mtb this is perfect.

What do you like?

Pump track is brilliant for my son who loves it. I ve rode most of the red route on the bridleways, easy going trails nothing really challenging but great for a easy ride. If you want technical or challenging trails try stainburn or head out to the moors or dales.

What could be improved?

As it's on bridleways it isn't a technical trail but it was never described as one.

Would you recommend?

*Yes*

Date written:

25/11/2017 - about 8 years ago

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PJ:
Avg 0.59
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Linking bridleways does not make a mountain bike trail

overhyped

What do you like?

Can ride it on a road bike

What could be improved?

It's not a challenging trail even for total beginners

Would you recommend?

*No*

Date written:

02/05/2017 - over 8 years ago

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