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

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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!

Central Florida & Orlando Mountain Bike Trails: SOLDIERS CREEK Mountain Bike Trail

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Hi I'm Harry. We're here at Soldiers Creek Mountain Bike Park. This is a nice trail maintained by Sorba Orlando It's a singletrack it goes along the Soldiers Creek. The trail goes along soldiers Creek and it winds along about 1.3 miles. It's nice - a little bit of elevation here and there nice and cool under the big trees and it's a really good ride here and local, just outside of Winter Springs, and right near the Boombah Park.

Come ride with us!

Central Florida & Orlando Mountain Bike Trails: ORLANDO MOUNTAIN BIKE PARK at Lake Druid Park

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Hi how's it going? My name is Joshua Jianuzzi and welcome to the Orlando mountain bike park. We're located here inside of Lake druid Park which is off of SR 50 also known as Colonial Drive of back road of Coy drive here and we're in between Coy Town and just outside of the milk district about ten minutes outside of downtown Orlando.

This is a SORBA Orlando mountain bike park. This property was donated by the naval base about seven, eight years ago, we tried to open this once before and had some issues with soil and the city was nice enough to help us out get us going. With the help of city individuals, fellow mountain bikers, local organizations like Summit Church with their NiServ, Green Up which is also a part of the city Orlando, thanks to Janice Rahill and David Wagg, Tommy and Anton, big help all the individual riders have been a big part of the build up and construction of the park... Been here for a little over three years maintaining it.

We've got just under a mile of singletrack, we've got a pumptrack here, its a mix between a skills area and also another tot track with some other wooden features as well to kind of hone in your skills. We are mostly a beginner park as we are fresh here for the last three and a half years. We opened up October 31st of 2015.

Yeah so we've got new features we're building and designing, I'm out here as much as I can with different volunteers, different organizations I'm just digging in and trying to share the fun with everybody so you can get out and enjoy the ride.

Central Florida & Orlando Mountain Bike Trails: SNOWHILL ROAD MTB TRAIL Little Big Econ State Forest

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Hello I'm Bobby and I'm the trail volunteer for the Florida Forestry Service out here at the Little Big Econ State Forest. The Snow Hill Bike Trail has been around here since the late 80's and it follows mostly in the deer paths. There's about 15 miles of singletrack out here at snow hill bike trail but most of it winds through the state forest here and a group of volunteers from SORBA Orlando comes out here and maintains the trail and works with the Florida Forestry Service.

The terrain out here at the snow hill bike trail consists of mostly sand but it's also mixed in with some muck and some loose dirt but most of it is sandy. This land used to be used for harvesting turpentine and it was a farm for cabbage and celery.

This is a wildlife preserve and there are all kinds of wildlife out here that are native to Florida. Since it's a Preserve you might find alligators in the water which is common here in Florida as well as snakes, turtles, gopher turtle and also wild hog and wild turkey. There's quite a few deer out here as well that you'll find along the bike trail.

A good portion of the trail runs along the little big econ River. On the weekends the river is quite active - there's kayaking and camping along the river.

The Snow Hill bike trail is located just outside of the town of Geneva and sits between Geneva and Oviedo Florida. The Little Big Econ State Forest is located about 15 minutes east of the University of Central Florida and it's about a 30-minute drive from downtown Orlando.

Central Florida & Orlando Mountain Bike Trails: MARKHAM WOODS Mountain Bike Trail

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I'm Mitch Greenberg and welcome to the Markham Woods mountain bike trail. This trail was established in 2013 thanks to the generous contribution of Wekiva Springs State Park. We currently have about nine to ten miles of trail here, mostly beginner-friendly. We cater to mountain biking, trail runners, hikers, family use. We do have some interesting features on the trail such as log overs, jumps, various sinks out here, varied terrain for people to see but this area is generally beginner-friendly. There are some other interesting features such as palmetto roots and some historic features to this piece of property as well. We have a great facility here parking lot provided by Seminole County, restroom facilities that are taken care of also by Seminole County, parking and access is easy. The location is near I-4 & Lake Mary Florida, so check it out have fun!