Description
Laggan Wolftrax mountain bike trails are in Strathmashie Forest, in the Scottish Highlands. Laggan has green, blue, red, black, and orange graded trails and a skills area. There is also a Forest Visitors Centre including a cafe, toilets, showers, and an office. It is renowned for its distinctive narrow, tight, heavily rock armoured, natural feeling, technical slab-laden trails but has lots for everyone
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Wolf Cub - Green
- The 4.5km Green trail is a tree-lined scenic route. Focused on novices and young children it runs between the Laggan Wolftrax hub and the community-owned Gorstean car park. It is adaptive bikes firendly.
- A new blue trail section called Blaeberry Flapjack in planned for 2024, which will connect the new blue and green trails. This section of trail will help less experienced riders to gain the necessary skills to progress in the sport and further develop their cycling skills.
Blue
- In October 2023 a new 3km blue opened. CRC built the focus is a new intermediate blue grade descent that captures the technical rocky character that the trail centre is known for. So, less time on the fire-road going up with a new climb and proper rock roll slabs on the way down. New section names are Slaba-Dabba-Doo, Blaeberry Flapjack and Give & Take.
The Red
- The 13.4km Red graded trail starts just past the Bike Park. It is made up of two sections, the Upper Red Route and the Lower Red Trail.
- The Upper Red Route section shares the climb with the Black trail and then adds its own fast descent with optional features. The Lower Red trail section has a multitude of features. It is on narrow black shale with embedded rock obstacles, drop-offs, rock causeways, a boardwalk, and lots of tough little technical climbs. It is renowned for features such as the challenging Air’s Rock, a slab similar to 'The Slab' at Dalbeattie, and the natural rock features of the Bhadain Boulder Field.
- As part of the CRC build in October 23 there is also a new red trail descent (with some black options), plus the bonus of several sweet trail technical features all over the place.
The Black
- The black route is 6.4km of tight, technical, single-track with drop-offs, boulder fields, rock steps, and rock slabs. It's built for the rider that is ready to commit! Renowned features include the "2 Ton Drop" and the "Back, Sack and Crack Attack" (a triple rock slab feature). There is also the Devil’s Chessboard, a 40-meter rock slab staircase with 24 different levels. NB This trail is actually much longer as it includes at least half the Red.
The Bike Park (Orange)
- The Bike Park has 3.6km of Orange graded trail. The track is wide with a sealed surface featuring big berms, tabletops, and gap jumps. Novices can still ride it as it is all rollable. It is built with progression in mind up from the novice to the advanced rider. The lower section of the Orange was rebuilt and refreshed in 2022.
Skills Area
- Built in 2022 there is a skills area just opposite the cafe and the centre.
Enduro
- Laggan host many enduro and xc events with its host of Enduro trails.
Other Stuff:
- Download the Laggan Wolftrax trails map (PDF 1MB)
- The regional trail Association is: Badenoch & Strathspey Trail Association
- The Laggan Wolftrax facebook group can be found at: Laggan Wolftrax Riders.
- In 2016 and 2015 Laggan took 2nd place in the iBikeRide Scottish Trail of the Year awards
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