Glenmore Forest Mountain Bike Trails

Description

Glenmore Forest mountain bike trails are made up of a selection of natural trails. Glenmore Forest has Loch Morlich at its heart and is located in the Cairngorms National Park near Aviemore, in the Highlands of Scotland. There is a visitors centre, parking, cafe and toilets but the trails are not waymarked so come prepared. There is also a skills training park at Glenmore Lodge and you are pretty close to the trail bases of Laggan Wolftrax,  Glenlivet and the  Cairngorm Mountain Bike Park which are also in the Cairngorms.

Glenmore Forest Trails

• The hard granite base of this area makes for good all year riding i.e. (good drainage). You have every length and ability level from the short easy 3k to 10k bike routes to the hard and advanced 30-40km technical rides. As with all natural MTB centre listings the community can upload their own maps directly to the listing (please do) but we also offer a selection of the best resources we have found out there on the web as below:>
• Glenmore Lodge offer hire, guides and coaching 
• SingleTracks is a good resource for natural routes in this area: 
  • Badaguish Trail (Green)
  • Canadian Trail (Black)
• MTBtrails.info have a selection of routes from easy through to very hard including the renowned single track loop that passes Glenmore Lodge, coming down the end of the Lairig Ghru.
  • Glenmore & Rothiemurchus a 23.5 mile route that is technically easy. 
  • Badaguish a 16.6 mile route that is technically moderate.
  • Lairig Ghru Circuit a 32.2 mile route that is technically graded very hard.
  • Glenmore to Braemar a 26.3 mile route that is technically graded very hard.
  • Braemar to Glenmore a 20.6 mile route that is technically graded very hard.

Other Stuff

• Able2Adventures offer Adaptive Cycles and Off Road Wheelchairs hire and guided rides, based at Glenmore Lodge National Training Centre, in the heart of the Cairngorms National Park in Glenmore Forest, in where there are lots of trails for people of all abilities to explore.

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