Mountain Biking Northern New Mexico: A Guide to Taos, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque Areas’ Greatest Off- Road Bicycle Rides
06
Jul
Product Description
Mountain Biking Northern New Mexico gives fat-tire enthusiasts the skinny on the best rides around Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Toas, Los Alamos, and the Sangre de Cristos. Readers can choose from scenic forest roads to hot singletrack. Cyclists can expect exhaustive and comprehensive trail descriptions of more than 40 of the region’s greatest mountain bike adventures, from beginner to advanced. Included are high quality, digitally designed maps and accurate route profile… More >>
This book has some great rides with good descriptions and directions. It is lacking some critical closure information that a NEW guidebook should have. For example, the Otero Canyon ride has been closed, but this book does not mention any access issues at all. Some similar problems on other trails.
Rating: 3 / 5
This is as good as a mtb guide gets. The focus is small enough that it can really cover the 3 areas thoroughly, the advise is good, the trail selection is good, and the maps are…standard Falconguide maps, which are OK. D’Antonio doesn’t make the mistake of underrating the technical difficulty of his trails. Two caveats: he omits the wonderful Horse Thief trail in Taos–go to Gearing Up bike shop and they’ll sell you a stunningly good map; and he tells you to ride the Chamisa Tr in Sante Fe backwards–take his advice and you’ll do all the dirt uphill and all the pavement downhill.
Rating: 5 / 5