Mountain Bike

1.6 miles

Distance

335 ft

Climb

-270 ft

Descent

00:17:02

Avg time

Trail Supporters, Builders & Maintainers of 230 Trail

USFS
Land Manager

230 Details

Activities
- Mountain Bike
- Hike
- Trail Running
Riding Area

Sandia Foothills - North
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Difficulty Rating

Blue rate
Voted Difficulty

Blue (1 vote)
Trail Type

Singletrack
Bike Type

XC
Trail Usage

Multi-use
Direction

Downhill Primary
Climb Difficulty

Blue
Physical Rating

Moderate
Season

All Year
Dogs Allowed

Yes
Ride in Rain

Yes
Global Ranking

#13783 in Mountain Biking
Local Popularity
80 in Mountain Biking [+]
- 80 in Trail Running
- 5 in Hiking
Land Manager

Elena Gallegos Open Space - City of Albuquerque

From the southern intersection with trails 341 and 230a dirt single track climbs moderately steeply to the north. The climb is punctuated with intermittent technical features: narrow boulder roll ups set between rocks, tight twisty switchbacks through boulder fields. Along the way are a few more advanced technical features if you keep your eyes open. Just past the top of the climb are two steep roll downs that are fairly technical. You cross an arroyo and meet a couple of difficult rock wall climbs. At short ways past this more advanced technical sections you reach the very top of the trail and descend to the west. The descent is fast, twisty, and choppy, but without any large drops. There are a couple of jumps off of larger boulders if you want to add some spice to what is already a fun descent.

Local Trail Association

Albuquerque Mountain Bike Association
International Mountain Bicycling Association
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Traditionally Indigenous Territory

Pueblos

More Stats for 230 mountain bike trail trail

Altitude change

65 ft
Altitude min

6,393 ft
Altitude max

6,687 ft
Altitude start

6,393 ft
Altitude end

6,458 ft
Grade

0.763%
Grade max

-12.643%
Grade min

20.811%
Distance climb

4,948 ft
Distance down

3,178 ft
Distance flat

406 ft
Avg time

00:17:02
Avg reverse time

00:18:55
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Status:

on Apr 4, 2021

Dry

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Past Week

1 rides
16 miles avg distance

6 Months

82 rides
15 miles avg distance

Photos

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Feb 7, 2021 @ 4:47pm

Feb 7, 2021

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Oct 2, 2020 @ 1:36pm

Oct 2, 2020

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Nov 14, 2019 @ 4:49pm

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Nov 14, 2019

Routes with this trail

title	rating	distance
North+South Foothills From Embudito		27 miles
All O' NFH		22 miles
North Foothills Traverse		14 miles
Michael Emery Intermediate Loop		8 miles

2 Reviews & Comments

Score Time

mckayb

(Dec 8, 2020 at 9:20)

Starts out as a smooth uphill and turns into a nice tecky trail that ends with some down hill through some rock gardens at the end. Lots of fun. One of my favorites for technical riding at Ellena Gellegos

[Reply]

gnarflow13 (Feb 3, 2021 at 17:11)

Re-Route on 505 to 365 upper section of trail. More windy, with a few more fun rock gardens put in, now. Say goodbye to your chances of stealing that KOM now though. Basically makes the downhill 5-10 seconds longer. Whatever, re-routes are cool