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Lassen Volcanic NP Warner Valley Thermal Features

November 16, 2025

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There's three thermal areas in the Warner Valley section of Lassen Volcanic NP. This area of the park is much quieter than the west side of the park with the visitor center and through road.

Devil's Kitchen is a mix of fumaroles and hot springs that you can see on a loop trail through the area. Boiling Springs Lake has a collection of ...
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Thunder Mountain Monument, Nevada

November 10, 2025

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If you are driving on I-80 near Imlay, Nevada (about 130 miles east of Reno) you may see Thunder Mountain Monument along the south side of the highway. It was built by World War II veteran Frank Van Zant, aka Chief Rolling Mountain Thunder. The buildings are made of artifacts and other items found in the nearby desert held together with concret...
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Halpatiokee MTB Loop, Florida

November 6, 2025

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The Halpatiokee trail system near the South Fork of the St. Lucie River has a directional set of mountain bike trails that form a loop. There a few spots where some trails can be skipped. It is mostly flat, but there's a few hills and some tight palmetto bush areas that make it interesting.

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Camp Murphy Trails, Jonathan Dickinson Florida SP

October 28, 2025

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Camp Murphy is one of the best trail systems in Florida for jumps, drops, berms and other tech. It also has sand pits, palmetto roots and climbs in rock gardens to challenge you. This area is hilly for Florida, so gravity can help you get some speed in a few spots. To hit many of the other jumps you have to pedal hard to get enough speed.

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Bunker Hill Trail, Camp Murphy

October 22, 2025

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Bunker Hill is the black diamond trail near the trailhead. It's got rock gardens, drops, jump and other techy spots. The hardest thing on this trail is getting enough speed to hit the features. There isn't much vertical to get speed around here.

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Hare Trail, Camp Murphy

October 19, 2025

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Hare Trail is a green trail that takes you back to the trailhead. It goes by Bunker Hill trail which is where this video stops.

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Prickly Pear, 8-10s, Silo Trails, Camp Murphy

October 17, 2025

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This video has two short trails sandwiching a longer one. Eight Tenths is a twist blue trail between Prickly Pear and Silo trails. There is an option to use a short cut between the two to skip it. One climbing section is sped up. The one cut early on was a battery dying. Camp Murphy is the mountain bike trail system in Jonathan Dickinson State P...
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Fire Ring Trail, Camp Murphy

October 16, 2025

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Fire Ring has jumps like the other trails in Camp Murphy, but also has a long skinny and rock climb to keep things interesting. Camp Murphy is the mountainb bike trail system in Jonathan Dickinson State Park..

Trail Links: Trailforks
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Half Pipe Trail, Camp Murphy

October 15, 2025

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A drop, a boardwalk and a pond view on a short trail in the Camp Murphy trail system of Jonathan Dickinson State Park.

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Gator Hole & Palmetto Trails, Camp Murphy

October 12, 2025

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These are two trails a blue trail in the Camp Murphy trails in Jonathan Dickinson State Park. There's a few techy features...and some sand pits. Palmetto ends in a skills area with some skinnys.

Gator Hole Trail Links: Trailforks
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Big Burn Trail, Camp Murphy

October 11, 2025

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Big Burn is a blue trail in the Camp Murphy trail system in Jonathan Dickinson Florida State Park. It starts out with a log ride and a jump. It has more jumps and berm turns. The trail also has a couple of sandy climbs that are sped up in the video. They are followed by a good views of a pond. A third climb through soft sand (cut out in the vide...
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Doe Trail, Camp Murphy,

October 10, 2025

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Doe is a blue trail in the Camp Murphy trails in Jonathan Dickinson State Park.

Trail Links: Trailforks MTB Project


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Root Loop Trail, Camp Murphy

October 7, 2025

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Root Loop is a blue trail in the Camp Murphy trails in Jonathan Dickinson State Park. This used to be a harder black trail due to the palmetto bush roots crossing the trail. They are more buried by the sand now and not as hard as they used to be.

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Osprey Trail, Camp Murphy

October 6, 2025

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Osprey is a blue trail in the Camp Murphy trails in Jonathan Dickinson State Park. Is this really a blue trail? Felt more like a green. Does anyoe see a trail on the right? I missed a optional side black trail.

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Middle Ridge Trail, Camp Murphy

September 30, 2025

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Middle Ridge is a blue trail in the Camp Murphy trails in Jonathan Dickinson State Park. There's berm turns, doubles and table top jumps.

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Tortoise Trail, Camp Murphy, JD State Park

September 8, 2025

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This is the green entrance trail for the Camp Murphy trails in Jonathan Dickinson State Park. Everyone rides this trail to start unless they are going directly to Bunker Hill. With about 25 ft of vertical change, it's a pretty flat trail. To get much air on the jump, you have to pedal hard.

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Northwoods MTB Trails Ride Highlights, Arkansas

July 29, 2025

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The Northwoods Trails system north of Hot Springs, Arkansas. The system has several downhill flow trails ranging from green to black. They has sweet berms, nice jumps and fun rocks. They are not too long so you could do a few laps on them in day.

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Bluejay Trail, Hot Springs, Arkansas

July 21, 2025

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This is an intermediate downhill flow trail in the Northwoods Trails system north of Hot Springs, Arkansas. It has sweet berms, nice jumps and fun rocks. It starts at the same trail junction as Lucky 13, which also runs into Bluejay so a run down either ends together. It's under a mile long and on my ride in the Northwoods system, this and Lucky...
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Screech Owl Trail, Hot Springs, Arkansas

July 19, 2025

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This is a short intermediate downhill flow trail in the Northwoods Trails system north of Hot Springs, Arkansas. It splits off and rejoins the Nighthawk green downhill trail. The video is from the start to the bottom of the downhill so beginning and end of the video has that trail in.

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Lucky 13 Trail, Hot Springs, Arkansas

July 14, 2025

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This is a downhill flow trail int the Northwoods Trails system north of Hot Springs, Arkansas. It has nice berms and several styles of jumps on this trail including optional gap jumps. It was not hard to follow even with all the leaves. It runs into Bluejay trail at the end which will be in another video.

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Devil's Den State Park, Arkansas

July 7, 2025

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The Fossil Flats trail is called the birthplace of Arkansas Mountain Biking in 1989. That is the loop that you start and end on. This ride also included Sawmill Loop, All You Can Eat, Racer's Hill, We Can Take, Sparky and Orville. Devil's Den State Park is about an hour south of Bentonville, Arkansas.

Due to riding in the middle of Nov...
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We Can Take It Trail, Devils Den SP, Arkansas

June 30, 2025

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We Can Take It is a cross-country trail in Devils Den Arkansas State Park. It goes along the side of a ridge above other trails. There are lots of spots where you are biking along a rock wall on one side of the trail. Theres also a creek crossing and some good views of the river below. This state park is about an hour south of Bentonville.

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Philips Canyon Trail, Wyoming

June 27, 2025

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This is the downhill half of the Philips Ridge & Canyon Loop which is near Teton Pass in Wyoming. The start has some of the connector trails between Philips Ridge and Philips Canyon trails. The climb up was a good workout, but the downhill was worth it.

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Slaughter Pen Trails Highlights

June 23, 2025

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The Slaughter Pen trail system has tons of fun trails in Bentonville, Arkansas. Many are directional with both flow and tech downhill trails. Walmart has donated a lot of money to the trails in Bentonville so theres lots of fun bridges and other features. At the end of video, the trails start at the castle, a medieval themed launching platform.
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Dragon Scales Trail, Slaughter Pen

June 16, 2025

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Dragon Scales shares a start with Loam Wolf from the Castle in the Slaughter Pen trail system of Bentonville, Arkansas. I rode Loam Wolf as well, but I didn't get video of it.

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Lombard Climbing Trail, Bentonville

June 13, 2025

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Lombard is the climbing trail to return to the Castle in the Slaughter Pen trail system of Bentonville, Arkansas. Since this is a climb, the video is a time-lapse. Near the top there is a detour due to trail work.

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Wildfire Trail, Bentonville

June 9, 2025

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Wildfire is a short beginner downhill flow trail starting from the Castle in the Slaughter Pen trail system of Bentonville, Arkansas.

This is from my first trip to Bentonville and all the videos in this set are my first time down the trails.

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Catapult MTB Trail

June 2, 2025

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Catapult is an intermediate downhill flow trail starting from the Castle in the Slaughter Pen trail system of Bentonville, Arkansas. It has lots of wood bridges going over the other trails that also start from the castle. You don't have to get air, but you could.

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Schroen Train Trail, Bentonville

May 27, 2025

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Schroen Train is a downhill flow trail in the Slaughter Pen trail system of Bentonville, Arkansas. It has berms, wood bridges and a rocky tech section. This video is showing the downhill part. There's another part that is the climb up to a junction where the fun begins.

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Tech Gnar, Slaughter Pen Trails

May 19, 2025

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This is a full trail video of Tech Gnar in the Slaughter Pen trails. It starts at the Tech Hub just north of the Flow Hub. It's a black trail with a couple of wood features.

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Walter's Whistler, Slaughter Pen Trails

May 12, 2025

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This is a full trail video of Walter's Whistler in the Slaughter Pen trails. It starts at the Tech Hub just north of the Flow Hub. It's a green trail with some berms that's good as a warmup and lets you see some of the other trails coming down from the Tech Hub. At the end there's a bit of an elevated side trail after it merges into Rocking Hors...
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Slaughter Pen Flow Hub Trails, Bentonville

May 5, 2025

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These three trails start at the Flow Hub in the Slaughter Pen Trail system. They are on the south side in the phase 3 area. All three are short, taking about a minute each to ride down. The first one, Boo Boo, is full of berms and small jumps. The second trail, Choo Choo, was a paved one - basically asphalt berms. The last one, Moo Moo, is a gre...
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Coler MTB Preserve, Bentonville, Arkansas

April 28, 2025

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Coler MTB Preserve has a mix of levels and types of trails. On the north side there's a few downhill trails starting from The Hub which are the ones at the start of the video. Then I made my way to the other side of the preserve to Thunder Dome dual slalom race track and ended the ride in the middle down on the Hardway to Cafe trail. This was my...
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Thunder Dome, Coler MTB Preserve, Bentonville

March 29, 2025

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Thunder Dome Trail

Thunder Dome is a dual slalom race track in the Coler Mountain Bike Preserve. This is on the opposite side of the park from the other trail videos from this trip.

Trail Link: Trailforks

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Fire Line Trail, Coler MTB Preserve, Bentonville

March 11, 2025

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Fire Line is a blue flow trail with lots of jumps that starts at the hub in the Coler Mountain Bike Preserve. This is the last of 5 videos I recorded when starting from the hub. It was my first time riding all of them.

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Rock Solid Trail, Coler MTB Preserve

March 2, 2025

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This is was to be a full trail video, but the video gets cut off. The part that got got cut off though was lots of tires slipping on wet rocks and walking that would've been edited out. I'll just have to go back sometime when the trail is dry.

Rock Solid is a double black tech trail that starts at the hub in the Coler Mountain Bike Pre...
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Rock Soft, Bentonville

February 21, 2025

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This is a full trail video, but it's been sped up (aka I had the Gopro on the wrong mode). I wish I could bike that fast. I decided to make a video of it anyway and mix it with some short funny video music.

Rock Soft is a tech trail that starts at the hub in the Coler Mountain Bike Preserve. Along with Rock Salad and Rock Hard it's a f...
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Rock Salad, Bentonville

February 9, 2025

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Rock Salad is a tech trail that starts on the climbing trail (Pedal Assist) up to the hub in the Coler Mountain Bike Preserve. This is a full trail video, but I did cut out a couple spots where my tires slipped on wet rocks and I stopped.

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Cease and Desist, Bentonville

January 26, 2025

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Cease and Desist Trail Vdeo

Cease and Desist is a jump trail starting at the Hub. This was my first time down it and the first downhill flow trail I did in the Coler Preserve.

Trail Link: https://www.trailforks.com/trails/cease-and-desist-85154/

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