Highwood Descent Details

Activities
- Mountain Bike
- E-Bike
- Hike
- Trail Running
Riding Area

High Wood
Inverness
Difficulty Rating

Blue rate
Hiking SAC Scale

T1 Hiking
Trail Type

Singletrack
Bike Type

XC
Trail Usage

Multi-use
Direction

Both Directions
Popular direction shown
Climb Difficulty

Green
Physical Rating

Easy
Trail Visibility

Always easy to follow
Dogs Allowed

Yes
eBike Allowed

Yes
Local Popularity
80 in Mountain Biking [+]
- 75 in E-Biking
- 5 in Trail Running
- 5 in Hiking
Land Manager

Moray Estates

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Highwood Descent is a 631 m popular blue singletrack trail located near Inverness. This mountain bike primary trail can be used both directions and has a easy overall physical rating with a 0 m green climb. On average it takes 2 minutes to complete this trail.

More Stats for Highwood Descent mountain bike trail trail

Altitude change

-79 ft
Altitude min

299 ft
Altitude max

378 ft
Altitude start

377 ft
Altitude end

299 ft
Grade

-3.8%
Grade max

-13.1%
Grade min

0.9%
Distance climb

69 ft
Distance down

1,699 ft
Distance flat

299 ft
Avg time

00:02:58
Avg reverse time

00:07:26
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