Mountain Biking Trails

By: Weston Sharpe

One of the things Fruita is most known for is its outdoor activities, the most popular of which is mountain biking. The reason for this is the amount of fun trails that you can ride and the easy access to them. If you live in Fruita and you haven’t been mountain biking before you are really missing out.

18 Road is one of the most popular destinations for mountain bikers here in Fruita. One freshman student here at the 8/9 Jace Mizushima really enjoys riding out there,” I have a lot of riding at 18 Road with my friends and family, there is a new trail that just went up and it has a lot of jumps and those are pretty fun even though the trails kinda sketchy.” As you can see mountain biking is always something you can do in your free time its also nice that there are always new trails being built. 

Mountain biking is always a fun an easy thing to get into as well for example Nate Wilkinson a student here at the Fruita 8/9 has something to say about it,” I borrowed my friend's bike because he told me it was fun and it was, the uphill is tiring but fun, its worth it for the downhill. I think I went on PBR on 18 Road and it was easy for me.” Even going mountain biking with your friends once will always be a fun time, especially with all the trails here in Fruita.

Overall mountain biking is gonna be around in Fruita for many years to come and there's no point in not trying it. There are always new trails to find and have fun on, even for beginners it’s a fun experience. Being in one of the best mountain biking states in the US is definitely something to take advantage of.


A guy mountain biking through a forest. Courtesy of Public Domain Pictures