Windy Gap

Legally ATVs are not allowed on the upper Windy Gap, they drive it anyway. Your tax dollars at work! Trail used to be a trail at the top, but ATVs saw to it to ruin what was once an awesome trail, now it is wide and rocks scattered all over. The lower half, below Milma, is ATV and is built such that ATVs are not a tragedy. The lower is wide and like a BMX course with jumps/table tops/water bars all the way down. It is considered pansy to shuttle, man up and ride to the top, or better yet, ride the whole loop starting at Bear Creek.
The trail is now a black at the top not because of technically difficulty, but more bc of trashy ATVs wrecking the trail and setting loose rocks all over the trail. Is not really worth riding anymore to me, but I knew it in its prime. The lower can be really run with so many jumps and a few berms, but as said, is a lot of work to get to the top. IDT Id ride a trailer up it, that is just really sad, but to shuttle in a vehicle on the gravel roads is super sad too, is a long way to get to the top as there is no direct road that goes up. Let's hate on the shuttle people for a minute. Shuttle has destroyed good trails all across America and the world. What used to sort out good riders from no-skilled ones now allows beginners on advanced trails that their fitness (and thus experience of having to ride enough to gains said fitness) would not otherwise allow and they skid, over-brake, ride off the trail and many taboo riding fails that destroy, rut, studder-up, and erode the trails. Don't skid. Take a skills class before you ride here.

I was disappointed with this trail. Most definitely not a black diamond. The climb up the ATV trail was brutal and the descent was not worth it. I was expecting a single track but this is a double track almost a road at some points.

Carters Lake DH is better to me. Windy Gap is good, but it is an ORV trail.