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1.8 miles
Distance
240 ft
Climb
-246 ft
Descent
00:16:24
Avg time
0 ft
Altitude change
919 ft
Altitude min
984 ft
Altitude max
930 ft
Altitude start
932 ft
Altitude end
-24.8%
Grade max
21.8%
Grade min
2,720 ft
Distance climb
2,648 ft
Distance down
4,364 ft
Distance flat
00:16:24
Avg time
Black Loop Details
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Activities
- Mountain Bike
- Gravel Bike
- Winter Fat Bike
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Riding AreaSunfish Lake Park
Lake Elmo, Minnesota -
Difficulty Rating
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Local Popularity100 in Mountain Biking [+]
- 85 in Winter Fat Biking
- 5 in Gravel Biking
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State Ranking
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Trail TypeSingletrack
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Bike TypeDH, AM, XC, Fat, Gravel
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DirectionOne Direction
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Climb DifficultyBlack Diamond
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Physical RatingHard
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Trail VisibilityAlways easy to follow
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TTFs on TrailBerm, Drop, Jump, Gap Jump, Log Ride, Skinny
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Year Opened2020
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Black Loop is a highly rated 2 mile popular black diamond difficulty singletrack trail located near Lake Elmo Minnesota. This mountain bike primary trail can be used one direction and has a hard overall physical rating with a 240 ft black diamond climb. It features berm, drop, jump, gap jump, log ride and skinny. Trail visibility is always easy to follow. On average it takes 16 minutes to complete this trail.
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Traditionally Indigenous Territory
Recent Activity on Trail
Past Week
- 12 rides
- 7 miles average
6 Months
- 240 rides
- 9 miles avg distance
All
- 1,213 rides
- Last: Oct 23, 2026
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- Snow Groomed
- Snow Packed
- Snow Covered
- Snow Cover Partial
- Freeze/thaw Cycle
- Icy
- Prevalent Mud
- Wet
- Variable
- Ideal
- Dry
- Very Dry
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Directions to black-loop-319490 trailhead
(45.006280, -92.912890)
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Mar 23, 2024 , Lake Elmo
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Nov 24, 2021 , Lake Elmo
5 Reviews & Comments
zory-melts
This trail deserves a real name. It is maturing into being one of the beat black trails in the Twin Cities. Excellent flow, creative features, drops, gaps, solid berms, variety. Great great great!
grantbob94
Agree with all above comments! Really fun flow, berms with plenty of features packed in. The builders love their high skinny drops to flat. Could definitely use some proper landings throughout.
zmschwab
Pretty cool new trail offering lots of flow and a very high density of unique features not really seen in the rest of the metro. My only suggestion would be to take another pass through and add some dirt to some of the landings as most are very flat and maybe add more defined lips on one side of some of the rollers to turn them into tables.
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