Last year when camping in this area we saw on a map that you could ride to the top of Menefee Mountain. Yesterday we checked it out and then some. We rode 16 miles and climbed 2042′ on our mountain bikes. We rode the dirt/gravel road up to the top where the towers are and …
Nighthorse Loop There are countless back country roads and gravel routes by where we are camped and we’re doing our best to ride them all! We put on our exploring hats (our helmets), and hit the road. Our loop the other day was a mixture of gravel and pavement and took us into a little …
For the last two weeks we have been social distancing in San Angelo State Park. We’re at a campground with ginormous spots; biggest I’ve ever seen at a campground! We aren’t campground people, but in Texas there isn’t a whole lot of public land for primitive camping. The park has over 50 miles of trails, …
Del Rio Walkabout San Felipe Creek runs through old Del Rio, fed by one of the largest artesian springs in Texas. A green corridor of parks with walking paths stripe the banks. It was a fairly windy day and not wanting to battle the winds paddleboarding Lake Amistad again, we walked all the way from …
Devils River Natural Area State Park is remote and that’s just what we like. We drove some 22 miles down a dirt road to get there. There are some trails in the park, though the river is the draw. I did a 13 or so mile mountain bike ride that had around 1000′ of climbing. …
The Big Bend Ranch State Park trails out of the Contrabando Trailhead were so much fun the other day that we decided to ride the rest of them another time. Starting from the same place, we rode all the other trails, stopping at the East Trailhead to chat with some folks visiting from Houston before …
The tiny community of Lajitas, Texas is a wisp of a place, but has some fun mountain bike trails. The area is known for a mining history and now it’s largely a western themed resort complete with a championship golf course. Umm, the community has an unexpected attraction: Clay Henry III, a goat, served a …
West Contrabando Trailhead just down the road from where we are camped is the start of a great trail system. During Prohibition contrabandistas brought huge amounts of liquor out of Mexico to the US border. They risked crossing the Rio Grande to deliver the contraband to American bootleggers who sold it illegally. It’s still Big …
There are so many different viewpoints in Big Bend Ranch State Park but it’s tough to get to all off them because of the remoteness of everything. For our last ride we hopped on our bikes and rode all the way out to Guale Overlook. Again, this is marked on maps as a 4X4 road …
Big Bend Ranch State Park (BBRSP) boasts one of two International Mountain Bike Association rated “Epic Rates” in Texas. The whole loop is 54 miles but we broke it up and did 36 miles of it from camp. We’ll do the other part next week. This loop is a mixture of maintained dirt roads, extremely …