1,896 ft
Distance
67 ft
Climb
-113 ft
Descent
00:02:32
Avg time

Moonshine Details

  • Activities
    • Mountain Bike
    • E-Bike
  • Riding Area
    Whakarewarewa Forest
    Rotorua
  • Difficulty Rating
    Advanced rate
  • Trail Type
    Machine Groomed
  • Trail Usage
    Biking Primary
  • Direction
    Downhill Primary
    Popular direction shown
  • Dogs Allowed
    Yes
  • eBike Allowed
    Yes
  • Global Ranking
    #32400 in Mountain Biking
  • Local Popularity
    80 in Mountain Biking [+]
    • 65 in E-Biking
  • Year Opened
    2010

Moonshine is lumpy in places and has some rooty, technical sections - so fun to ride and in keeping with the style of Roller Coaster with a couple of sections that step it up a little.

Ride it a few times and you'll start to dial in the high lines and figure out how to finess the flow from the trail.

source: Ride Rotorua
Access Info

The entrance to this is just before you exit from Roller Coaster onto Ring Road. It runs parallel to Ring and is a good alternative to the road or the last part of Roller Coaster across ring Road (which gets little traffic and is a bit of a grovel).

Bike Park

More Stats for Moonshine bike trail
  • Altitude change
    -45 ft
  • Altitude min
    1,169 ft
  • Altitude max
    1,274 ft
  • Altitude start
    1,214 ft
  • Altitude end
    1,169 ft
  • Grade max
    -19.014%
  • Grade min
    19.22%
  • Distance climb
    538 ft
  • Distance down
    1,329 ft
  • Distance flat
    29 ft
  • Avg time
    00:02:32
  • Avg reverse time
    00:01:36
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Status:
on Feb 2, 2020
Dry
Avg: 3.15 (6 votes)

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      Directions to moonshine-27716 trailhead (-38.188460, 176.292190)
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      Moonshine Trail Reports

      statusdatedescription
      Feb 2, 2020 @ 3:26pm
      Feb 2, 2020
      Jan 15, 2020 @ 3:20pm
      Jan 15, 2020
      Jan 6, 2020 @ 4:13pm
      Jan 6, 2020
      		 reporter
      cut vegetation at start and end
      Oct 27, 2019 @ 1:54pm
      Oct 27, 2019
      Oct 7, 2019 @ 2:57pm
      Oct 7, 2019
      		 Part of fallen tree on track. You can easily pass it but it has very sharp edge. Prob best removed
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      Recent Ridelog Activity on Trail

      Past Week
      • 28 rides
      • 23 miles avg distance
      6 Months
      • 550 rides
      • 21 miles avg distance
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      • 1,704 rides
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      Oct 7, 2019 @ 10:07pm
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      Sep 5, 2019 @ 3:27pm
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      Sep 5, 2019 @ 3:27pm
      Sep 5, 2019
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      Sep 5, 2019 @ 3:27pm
      Sep 5, 2019

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