Mountain Biking conditions are already good!

Where can you ski or snowboard in the morning, and then go on a great mountain bike ride in the afternoon?  Park City of course!

Its that time of year again where we get a little sad to see the winter season dwindling down, but also quite excited to see some of our great singletrack trails drying out and becoming ready to ride. A couple days ago I had a fun time taking a few cruisers on the groomers at PCMR, and a few laps in the Superpipe - still love riding that scary thing. Then went home and got a little work done (as a Realtor sometimes I can shuffle my schedule around as needed).  Then in the same day, in the afternoon, I took my bike back out, infkated the tires back up, and had a great first ride of the year out in Round Valley. Snowboarded in the morning, mountain biked the late afternoon. I love Park City Utah!

Where to go ride now - Round Valley

People have been riding for a couple weeks now, as the lower elevation areas around town that get lots of sun have been melting off and the trails have been drying up. Round Valley is a great location for early season riding. An easy place to start is Quinns Junction which is the intersection of I-40 and SR 248, where the indoor ink rink, sports fields, national ability center, and hospital are all located just outside of Park City. Round Valley is a large open area that sits behind Park Meadows neighborhood. Also is adjacent to Old ranch Road community, and Trailside neighborhoods on the other end, and runs along Interstae 40. The area has a couple old jeep trails, and many nice single track trails throughout. The area is great for beginners, and great for the first few rides of the season when youre getting your lungs and legs back in shape.  Also a great year-round destination for many of our visitors who come from sea level. The trails are smooth, and winding, and fun, and not too rocky.  There are some challenging sections so even more advanced riders will enjoy the trails, but overall its a fairly easy place to ride.  And depending on how long you want to be out there, you can link up different loops and sections of trail to meet your time allowment.

In the middle of summer, Round Valley can get a little hot, as there is not a lot of trees for shade, more sagebrush and scrub oak. The views back into town are great. You can see Deer Valley, Park City and the Canyons, and can see many local neighborhoods. Round Vally was once slated to become prime luxury Park City real estate and was going to be named Valderonde and a new real estate development community.  The city bought al the land, and has dedicated it as open space fopr all of us residents and visitors to enjoy. Another great reason to buy property in Park City, we have many open land parcels like this where instead on traditional real estate development, we have these areas preserved for beauty and recreation, for all to enjoy.