The sheer fact that a park this gorgeous with mountain bike trails this good can be found in the heart of Pittsburgh boggles the mind! Just a few miles from the towering skyscrapers in downtown and the rusting industrial complex along the river, you'll find this gem of a park tucked into one of the city's neighborhoods. With a river running through the bottom of the park and a substantial hill rising above it, Frick Park has all the makings of a rad little mountain bike trail system.

North Park graces Pittsburgh’s crown of mountain bike trails as one of its richest and most beautiful jewels! This extensive network of singletrack offers a myriad of ride possibilities ranging from short and easy to long and challenging. The ride mapped here seeks to make the most of the trail system, but you could even construct a longer route than this!

"Over 27 miles of singletrack run through Hillman State Park, located in the state game lands in and around Bavington,” writes Pennsylvania Dirt. “Known by mountain bikers as just 'Bavington,' it's one of the most beloved mountain biking trail networks in and around Pittsburgh.” The route mapped here covers some of the most popular trails in the Bavington network, found in the Five Points area.

The roughest and gnarliest mountain bike trails in Western Pennsylvania live here in Moraine State Park. The fame of this technical trail system is well-deserved: the trails here offer East Coast tech-gnar riding at its finest! The ride begins with a brutal trial-by-fire as you attempt to pedal over a never-ending boulder field that passes for a trail. And from there, the trails only get steeper!

Alameda Park is one of the newest mountain bike trail systems in the greater Pittsburgh area, but this rapidly-growing network has quickly earned a devoted following. In contrast to classic trails in the region like Moraine State Park that only provide challenging, technical, classic singletrack, Alameda consists entirely of machine-built trails.