Whether you’re just getting your teeth into our easy green-grade trails or you’re chasing the kind of adrenalin rush that only a black-grade drop-off can provide, you’ll find just the buzz you’re after here.
North East England’s MTB scene is rapidly becoming one of the hottest around!


In Durham, Hamsterley Forest’s 2,000 hectares are filled with exhilarating red and black grade mountain bike trails like the world-class skills ‘Loop’ and downhill tracks with hair-raising drop-offs and jumps. Perfect for extreme mountain biking.
Kielder Water & Forest Park is internationally renowned for its 100s of kilometres of routes including England’s highest: the spectacular red-grade Deadwater route cresting the 1900-foot summit of Deadwater Fell, with breathtaking 360° coast-to-coast views on a clear day.
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