Ride Like a Local: Lake Atalanta

Ride Like a Local: Lake Atalanta

Just a few blocks from the bustling downtown of Rogers, Arkansas, lies the trailhead for Lake Atalanta, a local gem with appealing features for everyone in your pack. Fully renovated in 2015, the park reopened with four miles of well-lit hard surface trails that wind...
Hanging Bridge at the Back 40

Hanging Bridge at the Back 40

Along Northwest Arkansas’ Highway 71 in Bella Vista, among the dense forest and towering rock of the Ozarks, blink and you might miss a flash of chrome and color as riders tear around the corner of Hanging Bridge. Hanging Bridge, a 100-foot section on the Back 40, is...
Berm Me Up, Scottie: AREA 51 in Bella Vista

Berm Me Up, Scottie: AREA 51 in Bella Vista

Ten minutes from the Missouri border, Blowing Springs Park in Bella Vista, Arkansas, has long been a destination for mountain bikers, boasting flowy trails, daring cliff rides and impressive rock drops. Out of the saddle, waterfalls, 60 degree “air-conditioned” caves...
Labor Of Love: Mount Kessler

Labor Of Love: Mount Kessler

Inside the city limits of Fayetteville lies a hand-cut gem, an 1,800-foot-peak home to ancient stands of post-oak, boulders the size of Volkswagens and 13 miles of multi-use natural surface trails spanning 387 acres for mountain bikers, trail-runners and nature...
Fitzgerald Mountain in Springdale

Fitzgerald Mountain in Springdale

The Mt. Fitzgerald experience is what can happen when you give an expert trail builder, who left his mark on some of the lines at Red Bull Rampage, 130 acres on the east side of Springdale and ask him to create a trail system that most levels of riders can get into....
Oz Trailer Interview | Cate Mertins

Oz Trailer Interview | Cate Mertins

FOR THE LOVE OF MOUNTAIN BIKING  By Cate Mertins, NICA Racer for Haas Hall Academy National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA) has given Cate Mertins, a student athlete for the Haas Hall Academy team, confidence, opportunity and community involvement through...