Type | Trail Association |
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Primary Activity | Mountain Bike |
Website |
Geo | |
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Address |
c/o Calgary Area Outdoor Council 1111 Memorial Dr NW
Calgary,
Alberta
T2N 3E4
Canada
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Founded in 1996, the Calgary Mountain Bike Alliance began as an advocacy group. At that time, there was a push to ban mountain bikes from the informal and formal trails in Bowmont Park and Nose Hill, and the writing was on the wall for similar bans to take place in Kananaskis. The newly-formed CMBA was successful in changing minds and winning hearts within the City of Calgary and with Alberta Parks, ensuring that mountain bikers can use most of the trails that hikers and horses have access to.The CMBA remained active until the turn of the millennium but things got quiet until 2008. It was at that time that the group was infused with new blood, and the purpose shifted away from advocacy and toward trail building. Around 2009, luck and timing coalesced into the creation of the Ridgeback trail in Kananaskis. In 2013, work begins on Calgary’s first public mountain bike skills park, located in the city’s SE by the communities of Parkland and Deer Run. The CMBA is all about riding bikes, building trail and building community – in short, having a good time.
Riding Areas
name | trails | total descent | highest trail | total distance |
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12 Mile Coulee | 30 | -1,552 ft | 3,990 ft | 15 miles |
Ann & Sandy Cross Conservation Area | 0 | 0 ft | 0 ft | 0 ft |
Bearspaw | 5 | -318 ft | 4,207 ft | 2 miles |
Bottomlands | 38 | -1,238 ft | 4,084 ft | 22 miles |
Bowmont Park | 41 | -1,865 ft | 3,872 ft | 20 miles |
Edgemont | 42 | -788 ft | 4,101 ft | 13 miles |
Elliston Park | 4 | -270 ft | 3,629 ft | 12 miles |
Fish Creek Provincial Park | 159 | -3,772 ft | 3,650 ft | 56 miles |
Nose Creek Park | 35 | -729 ft | 3,658 ft | 16 miles |
Paskapoo Slopes | 77 | -3,079 ft | 4,059 ft | 16 miles |
SE Calgary River Trails and East FCP | 40 | -1,732 ft | 3,472 ft | 49 miles |
Station Flats / Allen Bill | 19 | -5,988 ft | 1 mile | 38 miles |
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