2 miles
Distance
418 ft
Climb
-631 ft
Descent
00:29:05
Avg time

Dakota Ridge Details

  • Riding Area
    Matthews Winters Park
    Morrison, Colorado
  • Difficulty Rating
    Double Black Diamond rate
  • Voted Difficulty
    Black Diamond (1 vote)
  • Trail Type
    Singletrack
  • Bike Type
    AM
  • Trail Usage
    Multi-use
  • Direction
    Downhill Only
    Popular direction shown
  • Climb Difficulty
    Double Black Diamond
  • Physical Rating
    Hard
  • eBike Allowed
    Yes
  • TTFs on Trail
    Drop, Jump, Rock Face, Rock Garden
  • Global Ranking
    #1901

The easy way to ride this is from North to South. Lots of chunky rock and tough spots.

Local Trail Association
More Stats for Dakota Ridge bike trail
  • Altitude change
    -213 ft
  • Altitude min
    6,145 ft
  • Altitude max
    6,655 ft
  • Altitude start
    6,358 ft
  • Altitude end
    6,145 ft
  • Grade
    -1.931%
  • Grade max
    -134.718%
  • Grade min
    86.715%
  • Distance climb
    5,151 ft
  • Distance down
    5,051 ft
  • Distance flat
    831 ft
  • Avg time
    00:29:05
  • Avg reverse time
    00:36:19
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Status:
on Nov 10, 2018
Dry
Avg: 4.6 (12 votes)

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Trail Style
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Activity Type
Trail Conditions
  • Unknown
  • Snow Packed
  • Snow Covered
  • Freeze/thaw Cycle
  • Icy
  • Prevalent Mud
  • Wet
  • Variable
  • Dry
  • Very Dry
Directions to dakota-ridge-13130 trailhead (39.696500, -105.203581)
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Dakota Ridge Trail Reports

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Nov 10, 2018 @ 12:11pm
Nov 10, 2018
 reporter
Sep 2, 2018 @ 8:42am
Sep 2, 2018
Aug 23, 2018 @ 3:31pm
Aug 23, 2018
 Dry with lots of grip if you choose to ride counter clockwise it's a matter of fitness and technical prowess, for me it's a series of small...
Jun 17, 2018 @ 5:44am
Jun 17, 2018
Apr 22, 2018 @ 4:02pm
Apr 22, 2018
 A bit sandy from the rain on 4/21/18 but dry and good to go
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Aug 29, 2018 @ 1:42pm
Aug 29, 2018
Dakota Ridge, Morrison
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Jul 15, 2018 @ 5:18pm
Jul 15, 2018
Dakota Ridge, Winter Park

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1 Review & Comments

  • + 1
flag jamesashton2 (May 1, 2018 at 8:59)
 Super fun and mega techy definitely one of the best rides on the front range
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