2,372 ft
Distance
13 ft
Climb
-276 ft
Descent
00:05:43
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Zen Garden Details

  • Activities
    • Mountain Bike
  • Riding Area
    Syringa Trail System
    Sandpoint, Idaho
  • Difficulty Rating
  • Voted Difficulty
    Black Diamond (1 vote)
  • Trail Type
    Singletrack
  • Bike Type
    AM, XC
  • Direction
    Downhill Only
    Popular direction shown
  • Climb Difficulty
    Black Diamond
  • Trail Visibility
    Always easy to follow
  • Dogs Allowed
    Yes
  • TTFs on Trail
    Bridge, Rock Garden
  • Local Popularity
    90 in Mountain Biking
  • Land Owner
    Kaniksu and Trust

Zen Garden is a blue tech trail starting in Pine Street Woods and descending to join Rotarian in the lower levels of VTT. The trail features several rock slabs of intermediate difficulty, providing a nice warm-up for the steeper and more technical Chaos Theory further to the east. You can bail out 2/3 of the way down Zen Garden and hop on a connector to Green Heart to make for a shorter climb back to the top of VTT, or continue into the bottom third for a couple of more slabs with a nice skinny bridge over a seasonal creak in the thick stand of Cedars just before the intersection with Rotarian.

Local Trail Association
Traditionally Indigenous Territory
More Stats for Zen Garden mountain bike trail trail
  • Altitude change
    -264 ft
  • Altitude min
    2,230 ft
  • Altitude max
    2,494 ft
  • Altitude start
    2,494 ft
  • Altitude end
    2,231 ft
  • Grade
    -11.1%
  • Grade max
    -31.8%
  • Grade min
    15.3%
  • Distance climb
    174 ft
  • Distance down
    1,814 ft
  • Distance flat
    384 ft
  • Avg time
    00:05:43
  • Avg reverse time
    00:13:59
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on Oct 27, 2024
Snow Cover Partial
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      Recent Ridelog Activity on Trail

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      • 0 rides
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      6 Months
      • 48 rides
      • 9 miles avg distance
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      • 278 rides
      • Last: Jan 15, 2025

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      May 21, 2024 @ 8:36pm
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      Routes with this trail

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      Green Heart through Zen and Rotarian3 miles
      Shred Fest long course race5 miles

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      Pine Street Woods - Zen Garden full
      2:59 | 18 | Sep 30, 2024 , Sandpoint
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      2:31 | 291 | Jun 3, 2022 , Sandpoint
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      65 | May 26, 2022 , Sandpoint
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