Central Florida & Orlando Mountain Bike Trails: MINNEOLA Mountain Bike Trail

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
Hey my name is Brian Baker and I'm the trail boss for the Minneola trailhead bike park here in Minneola Florida, and this trail has been here for about about five months now. It took what was a year in the making, actually started way back in last July, and had to work with City Council members and county officials and got together with OMBA and SORBA and got a whole bunch of help from everybody, and was able to put this trail together in a matter of four hours actually. We're able to cut it out to put it together in four hours with the help of about thirty-four volunteers, and it's really been an amazing gathering of people, amazing gathering of effort.

We have a lot of sponsors that we're very thankful for helping us out, helping us with the trailer bringing out free swag, free snacks, you know, keeping us hydrated out here, and as you can see you know we got plenty of riders coming out here and enjoying the trail.

We're right off the South Lake Apopka Trail, (the paved trail) that goes all the way over to Orlando, and all the way out to Groveland, so we have awesome access here. You can essentially you know come right off the trail right down here in Minneola trailhead and come over here - it's just a single track and get on and have a good time. We have so many bikers in the area - you know that's one of the things that really inspired me to get the trail going - is that you know we didn't have another trail for another 45 minutes from this destination, and so my kids and I, you know we wanted something that was closer to home, so I said "What the heck, you know let's see if we can get a bike trail here", and Minneola was you know really good about catching on and donating this terrain, this acreage here that we could put our bike trail on. So again, it was just really, to me, an inspiring gathering and support coming together to make it happen.

So here we are enjoying the trail, it's a beautiful day in Florida and let's ride!