Sacramento Area
Mountain Bike
Association

Urban Trail Possibilities

The American River Parkway holds the most promise for a quality off-road bicycle experience in the Sacramento Metropolitan area.  Mountain biking was prohibited there for many years due to language in the 1985 master plan.  This plan was updated started in 2004, and SAMBA participated.  The new plan, approved last year, now allows for off-pavement cycling as a pilot project in Woodlake and Cal Expo.  Read the latest here.

Other sites in Sacramento have off-road cycling potential:

• The old Sacramento city landfill at 28th and A streets, which is evolving into a new regional park known as Sutter's Landing.  This site already has a skateboard park.  It also boasts the tallest hill in city proper, approximately 70 feet, with a stunning view of the downtown skyline.  The hill is currently off limits, as it contains gas wells and pipes and other vestiges of its not-so-glamorous past.
• Mather Regional Park, located on the old air force base southeast of town. 
• Levee corridors following Steelhead Creek (formerly the Natomas East Main drain) and other large creeks in North Sacramento.
• West Sacramento including the Bryte Bend area and the "Honda Hills" just south of the port.
• Del Paso Park near the intersection of I-80 and Business 80.

Other Urban Trail experiences around the country:

• Girls getting dirty on the Tapeworm trail in Seattle
• Urban trails in San Francisco, Austin Texas, Washington D.C. and elsewhere
• Grand opening of Highbridge Park trail in New York City