Description
Woburn Bike Park sits in Aspley Woods on the edge of Woburn Sands, Milton Keynes, and is midway through a full rebuild led by rider Matt Jones with the backing of the Woburn Estate. Large-scale forestry clearance gave the build a clean slate, and the finished layout will run a green beginner line, the blue flow trail Flowburn, a red jump line, a black-graded downhill freeride track, a double-black freeride feature, a full dirt jump area and a technique and progression zone. The park had been targeting a summer 2026 opening, but reopening is delayed while two planning applications with Central Bedfordshire Council are considered, and there is still no confirmed date. The bike park itself remains closed to visitors during this final stage. The wider Aspley Woods bike and horse trails stay open in the meantime, with a paid permit, sold as a day or annual pass, required to ride them. This listing will be updated as the rebuild and the planning process progress.
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The Trails
The rebuild is a complete reset of Woburn Bike Park following forestry works that cleared trees, stumps and legacy trail infrastructure. Gradients across the site have been reshaped with machinery, opening up wider trails, longer runs and jump layouts that were not possible before, and drainage has been addressed with a new pond to manage water runoff. As it stands, the site runs a lane system of green, blue, red, black and double black lines, with some still under development.
Green Line
A new green-graded line sits below the existing blue. It is a genuine beginner progression trail rather than a toned-down jump line: wide, rollable berms and mellow rollers on the upper section carry speed naturally without needing airtime, while the lower section has been reworked with extra rollers and tabletop shapes to avoid a flat, straight run-out. Every feature can be ridden sat down, with room for stronger riders to add pumping and light pop.
Start Tower
A start tower at the top of the hill gives dedicated roll-ins for the blue, black and red lines at different angles, so riders can drop straight into a line without pedalling the first section.
Flowburn (Blue)
A new machine-built blue flow trail, named Flowburn, runs the full height of the hill from top to bottom. It is the longest and most accessible trail the park has had, with wide machine-shaped berms, long rollable tabletops, optional jump lines on the outside, and a corkscrew finish back to the return route.
Red Line (name to be confirmed)
A red-graded jump line, built with support from trail-building company OnTrack, runs from the start tower down into the lower dirt jump bowl, making it the longest run on the hill. It includes berms and shark fins in the upper section, step-up and step-down combinations in the middle, two doubles lower down, and a 180-degree left berm before the final section into the dirt jump area. All features are designed to be rollable, with harder lines for riders who want to push further. The line still does not have a name.
Downhill Freeride Track (Black)
A new downhill line runs parallel to an existing blue trail, giving a clear progression option once you are through the blues. It has been test-ridden and rated black, with a start-tower roll-in leading into shark fins, hips, cambered rollers and large landings linked continuously down the hill. Shaping and finishing work is ongoing and the line is still unnamed.
Technique and Progression Area
The existing technique area has been significantly expanded to bridge the gap between beginner features and the main jump lines, with a higher, wider roll-in feeding multiple parallel lines of increasing height and distance, wide landings for transferring between them, and a longer run extending further down into the valley.
Volunteer Trail Rebuilds
Local volunteers have been rebuilding and widening legacy trails using fresh sand delivered up the hill. Transfer Line has been reshaped higher up to improve flow and separate it from the new green route, with wider berms and refreshed landings. Stroganoff has been rebuilt with a new B line, currently under consideration for either red or black grading, and other established tracks including Watch Your Back are also being upgraded while keeping the character of the originals.
Boner Log (Double Black)
A boner log built from timber felled during the earlier forestry works spans Transfer Line, letting Watch Your Back cross safely, and doubles as a double-black freeride feature in its own right.
Dirt Jumps
The dirt jump area has been rebuilt as an eight-pack layout with multiple take-offs and shared landings feeding back into the wider trail network, tested on both dirt jump and trail bikes. A beginner tabletop line, with rollers building into a five-foot tabletop and on into larger jumps, gives newer riders a progression route between small rollers and the bigger gap jumps. Additional step-ups and fly-out options are being added alongside the larger jumps, and crossing lines from the old layout are being removed or rerouted as part of the move to a formal public bike park.
Facilities
No on-site bike shop, cafe, visitor centre or toilets are confirmed during the rebuild. One of the two live planning applications covering the site includes a WC and welfare unit plus a ticket and ranger office, so some of this may be in place once the paperwork clears, but nothing is confirmed open to the public yet.
Background and Planning Update
After a long-running partnership with the Greensand Trust, the Bedford Estates resumed management of Aspley Heath and Woods, including Woburn Bike Park and Trails, and brought in Matt Jones to lead the rebuild. Reopening is currently held up by two planning applications with Central Bedfordshire Council: one seeking retrospective permission for the land's use as a bike park together with a WC and welfare unit and a ticket and ranger office, and a separate one covering a temporary car park at Steetley Quarry. Neither has been reported as refused, and the Woburn Estate says it will confirm a definitive opening date as soon as it is able to.
Read the background to the rebuild and the latest build update on iBikeRide: Matt Jones returns to rebuild Woburn Bike Park and New red line takes shape at Woburn Bike Park.
Getting Here
The bike park itself is closed to visitor access while construction and the planning process continue, so please do not ride the closed area. For the wider Aspley Woods bike and horse trails, which remain open, riders need a paid permit, sold as a day or annual pass, from Woburn Bike Park and Trails before setting off.
- Primary parking: Sandy Lane, Woburn Sands (postcode MK17 8TT for satnav), off the A5130 Woburn Road.
- Alternative parking: Longslade Lane car park, Aspley Heath (MK17 9HZ). A temporary car park at Steetley Quarry is also going through planning for use during construction.
- By train: Woburn Sands railway station, on the Marston Vale line between Bedford and Bletchley, is a short walk from the woods.
Related Trails
The wider Woburn Sands woodland network, including the red-graded Longslade and Danesborough trails, is covered separately on iBikeRide (a paid permit applies there): Woburn Sands mountain biking trail listing.
Beyond the Trails
Woburn Bike Park sits within the much larger Woburn Estate, best known for Woburn Abbey and Gardens, Woburn Safari Park's drive-through wildlife reserve, and a roughly 3,000-acre deer park that is one of the largest conservation parks in Europe. On-estate hotels and guesthouses are available if you are making a full day or weekend of it. See the estate's main site for details: woburn.co.uk.
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iBikeRide will keep following the rebuild and update this listing as new trails and features are completed.
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