Biking

A Utah bike trip will color your thinking forever, whether it's a ride on a country road or on a mountain trail lined with colorful wild flowers.  Utah developed a world-class reputation in biking starting with Moab's famous “Slick Rock Trail”. Now it is fast becoming known for wonderfully diverse alpine mountain biking, including lift-served access at all three resorts in Park City.  And you don't have to be a shin-scarred, off-road radical to enjoy Utah on bike wheels.  All you need is a love for beautiful scenery and invigorating outdoor activity. 

The picturesque resort town of Park City features over 400 mile of inviting trails that lead riders past colorful vestiges of the area's silver mining history and up into the Wasatch Mountain range. Many of these trails are accessible via the very same lifts that take skiers throughout the area's three resorts in wintertime.

But for beginners, and for families with children, something more gentle might be in order. Like a radio station that plays melodious music rather than heavy rock, the Beaver Creek Trail in Kamas is perfect for those seeking the softer side of mountain biking.  And further on up the road, the Soapstone Basin is a fast-paced, backcountry tour looping around a broad valley pocketed with groves of fir and aspen. Miniature wildflowers speckle the sunny, alpine meadows like paint spattered from an artist’s brush. By and large, the scenery is more intimate along the main loop, although the Uinta Mountain Peaks do reveal themselves in bursts of glory along the way.  They don’t call Kamas “The Gateway To The Uintas” for nothing.