Manitoba Mountain Bike Trails

Manitoba is home to some of the best single track and technical riding around. The Birch Ski Area was the site for the 1999 Pan Am Games XC event, and Bison Butte Recreational Trails was the site for the 2017 Canada Summer Games XC event.

Most of the popular trails that are maintained and ridden regularly are across the southern 200 km of the province.

Trail difficulty ranges from green to blue mostly, with some sections of black and double black challenges.

There is a fair selection of river trails within the city limits, and from 2018, the Bison Butte Recreational Trails area has been open to the public with a variety of easy to very challenging trails with berms, table tops, drops, steep roll downs, logs, rocks, and single track.

Within 1-3 hours drive from the city of Winnipeg are a wide variety of trail types..

Tight hard pack single track near the city (Birds Hill Park), predominantly flat with some mild elevation changes.

Rocky outcrops of the Canadian shield in east, rock face, dirt single track, double track (Falcon Ridge Ski Area, Blue Highway, Pinawa, Ingolf).. lot's of small steep hills. Five of Diamonds and Blue Highway routes both have berms, table tops, natural rock drops and open granite rock face roll downs.

Grand Beach (North of WPG) Double track/ single track, hard pack, sandy sections, some rock gardens

Falcon Trails and Grand Beach trails are in Provincial parks so a park pass is needed to enter with your car.

Riding Mountain (central) has some new hard pack single track trails.

The southwest region including Brandon, Morden, and Carmon areas have some of the sweetest hard pack single track around. Lots of short to medium elevation changes going through valleys.

Trails are snow free and free of spring mud drying usually by late April - mid May. Snow starts again in late Oct-Nov. Winter riding on groomed fat bike trail growing in popularity (Oak Ridge Mountain Bike Trail, Grand Beach, Falcon Ridge Ski Area).

If you're visiting bring your bike(s)! Manitoba has some trails you don't want to miss. Local clubs will help you find the trails. We have some fine XC races that run generally from May to September (mbcycling.ca)