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9.1 miles
Distance
186 ft
Climb
-2,065 ft
Descent
00:55:22
Avg time
-1,880 ft
Altitude change
7,777 ft
Altitude min
9,674 ft
Altitude max
9,674 ft
Altitude start
7,795 ft
Altitude end
-3.9%
Grade
-47.3%
Grade max
15%
Grade min
1 mile
Distance climb
7 miles
Distance down
1 mile
Distance flat
00:55:22
Avg time
Upper Spinal Tap Details
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Activities
- Mountain Bike
- Adaptive Bike
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Riding AreaPahvant Trail System
Richfield, Utah -
Difficulty Rating
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Voted DifficultyBlue (2 votes)
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Local Popularity85 in Mountain Biking [+]
- 5 in Adaptive Biking
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Trail TypeSingletrack
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Bike TypeDH, AM, Adaptive MTB
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SeasonJun - Oct
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TTFs on TrailBerm, Drop, Jump, Gap Jump, Rock Garden
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Year Opened2022
Upper Spinal Tap starts gradual but picks up quickly with fast berms, rollers, and jumps. It winds through the aspen and pine trees for about 2.5 miles before crossing the shuttle road. The trail continues with fast berms, rollers, and jumps for another 3 miles through Mahogany and Pinion trees where you will find a cattle guard crossing followed by an ATV trail crossing. The trail gets a little more challenging with 4 technical drop features that will get your blood pumping. A few short gradual climbs will then send you flying down the rest of the trail through sweeping berms and jumps and right into Middle Spinal Tap.
Generally this trail rates intermediate in difficulty and has very few mandatory challenging features.
The trail is located in open grazing lands and there are cattle in the area. You may encounter cattle on the trail. Please be respectful to the cattle and wildlife should you encounter them.
Access Info
Trail is accessed from the CCC road to FR 096. Park near the pit toilet and then head north over the cattle guard. The trail starts just after passing over the cattle guard on the right hand side.
Adaptive Bike Info
aMTB DBL Black Rating: Expert trail features not suitable for some adaptive equipment
Trail is generally well benched with 42”+ width, however there are a lot of built pinches (apparently intended to restrict quad / motorized use) that narrow the trail to 26” or less. There are a few significant narrow/ off camber sections near the bottom.
There is a single MANDATORY TECHNICAL FEATURE approx 2/3 of the way down which consists of a 6’ techy DH roll into a hard left hand turn on flat. Significant Endo potential. Other B line option is a 26” wide line with poor spotting potential and significant exposure to rolling. Do not ride this trail without advanced skills and appropriate support.
Trail Supporters
- past supporters
Singletrack Trails Inc.
2021 - 2022Builder
Richfield City Trails Committee
2021 - 2022Builder
Local Trail Association
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Traditionally Indigenous Territory
Recent Activity on Trail
Past Week
- 16 rides
- 20 miles average
6 Months
- 168 rides
- 21 miles avg distance
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- 424 rides
- Last: Oct 12, 2026
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Directions to upper-spinal-tap trailhead
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Technical Trail Features (TTF)
- Middle Spinal Tap Parking
- TTF
Rock Garden - TTF Rock Garden
- TTF Drop
- TTF Drop
Routes with this trail
★ 4.7 • 19 miles • 504 ft • 3 • Shuttled •
The full route, top to bottom. Typically you shuttle to the top, then make the drop. Dirt roads to the top...
25 Reviews & Comments
white-shark-424
This is the worst of the 3 spinal tap sections, but still better than 95% of all the trails I’ve ridden. It’s flowy, amazingly picturesque, and has jumps and tech to keep things interesting. It’s a pretty wide open trail that gets more fun the more speed you carry. There are some good jumps, long fast doubles, but you need to carry speed. 5-star trail for me.
shannonhood
Picturesque, but rather dull trail. It goes from the sub alpine aspens back to the desert. Watch out for the occasional double black feature.
machoprincess
I'm glad I'm not such an epically amazing mountain biker that I need the hardest trails in the world to have a good time, because I had fun down this one. Did it challenge me? Nope. Did it put a smile on my face? You bet.
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