6 miles
Distance
974 ft
Climb
-1,710 ft
Descent
1 miles
High Point

This is a local's favorite Mount Helena Ridge ride, ending with Show-Me-the-Horse Trail. It is an extremely popular way to take advantage of the Bike Helena Trail Rider shuttle. Be careful exiting the bottom of Horse trail onto Grizzly Gulch Road!

Local Trail Association
Montana Bicycle Guild (www.montanabicycleguild.org)
Please consider joining or donating to the local riding association to support trail development & maintenance.
donate to earn trail karma!

Comments


Post a Comment



You must login to Pinkbike.
Don't have an account? Sign up

Join Pinkbike  Login

Trails in Route

Details

  • Riding area
    South Hills
  • Difficulty rating
    Blue
  • Route Type
    Shuttled
  • Bike type
    AM
  • Direction
    One Direction
  • Physical rating
    Moderate
  • Ridelogs
    16
More Stats for Mount Helena Ridge to Show-Me-the-Horse mountain bike route
  • Altitude change
    -736 ft
  • Altitude min
    4,454 ft
  • Altitude start
    5,190 ft
  • Altitude end
    4,454 ft
  • Grade max
    -37.943%
  • Grade min
    33.404%
  • Distance climb
    2 miles
  • Distance down
    3 miles
  • Distance flat
    714 ft
Avg: 5 (2 votes)
close
  • Layers  w
  • Basemap 
  • Trail Style 
    • ?
  • Activity Type 
Trail Conditions
  • Unknown
  • Snow Packed
  • Snow Covered
  • Freeze/thaw Cycle
  • Icy
  • Prevalent Mud
  • Wet
  • Variable
  • Dry
  • Very Dry
LEGEND
Trail Difficulties
  • Access Road/Trail
  • White
  • Green
  • Blue
  • Black
  • Double Black Diamond

Trail Report Status
  • Clear / Green
  • Minor Issue / Yellow
  • Significant Issue / Amber
  • Closed or Major Issue / Red

  • Land Owner Overlay
  • Wilderness (typically no bikes in USA)
  • BLM (public)
  • USFS (Wildlife sanctuaries darker than usfs)
  • State land
  • Indigenous
  • Military
Trail Conditions
  • Unknown
  • Snow Packed
  • Snow Covered
  • Freeze/thaw Cycle
  • Icy
  • Prevalent Mud
  • Wet
  • Variable
  • Dry
  • Very Dry
  • Map Markers
  • trail Trail Head
  • photo Photo
  • place Directory Listing
  • region Riding Area
  • TTF TTF
  • Parking Parking
  • Viewpoint Viewpoint
  • Information Information
  • Warning Warning
  • Directions Directions
  • Water Fountain/Source Water Fountain/Source
  • Sight Sight
  • Restrooms Restrooms
  • Gate Gate
  • Camping Camping
  • Trail Sign Trail Sign
  • Table or Bench Table or Bench
  • Other Other
Trail transparency
view larger map

Photos

more photos »

Videos

more videos »
Helenduro Stage 2 Preview
Helenduro Stage 2 Preview
5:42 | 833 | comments: 0 | favs: 2
May 17, 2016
@montanaenduro

Recent Trail Reports Along Route

traildateconditiondescription
Mount Helena Ridge Trail - Upper
Dec 9, 2018 @ 11:18am
Dec 9, 2018
 reporter
Show-Me-The-Horse Trail
Oct 25, 2018 @ 12:04pm
Oct 25, 2018
 reporter
more reports »
  • flag
  • login to download gpx or kml files.