Reviewed by: Dredd ,  Cross Country Rider

Summary:
This place is good. Skeggs is better, so if I ride here I try and do a look by skeggs.

Recommended Route:
Check out skeggs point first...loops starting at purisima are fun though.

Other recommended trails in the same area:
El Corte De Madera (Skeggs)

Reviewed by: mikeb , from Sodom in the North

Summary:
my crew and i used to ride purisima quite frequently just a we were all really becoming really hard-core. every once and a while, we used to ride star king road (is that it?) to connect with the leaf trail which is part of el corte madera, but we'd usually just do two loops. we'd drop the first fire road to whitmore gulch, then make a left at the bottom. we would then use that rolling fire road to get to another service road on the right side. that's the second fire road you come to, the once with i bridge near the intersection if i remember properly. (it's been maybe two years since i've been here) you can climb this fire road, which becomes excruciatingly steep in places to do two things, which are both good things. one would be to continue on until you reach the paved road at the end of this trail, which is how you would connect to skeggs. the second option is make a right turn (after you take a break at the top) down the fire road to the right, which is probably one of the better ultra-high-speed fire road descents in the bay area, second only in my opnion to the one at nicine marks in santa cruz. this descent has some really cool double track sections in the middle and a series of very cool jumps, if you dare hit jumps while you're running almost forty miles an hour. riders can choose to either turn left and re connect with whitmore gulch to retrace their steps or you can opt for the right turn, where you'll eventually connect to the highway for a twenty minute road ride back to the purisima parking lot. there's not a lot of singletrack here except for whitmore gulch. the fire roads can be challenging however, because they're fast. that's a problem, though, because purisima is usually crowded, unless you ride here very early in the morning or on weekdays. purisima still merits four tires, since i believe whitmore gulch ranks as one of the better high speed singletrack trails in northern california.

Recommended Route:
don't ride here unless you're using purisima to start an epic through el corte madera (skeggs). it's just not worth the drive.

Other recommended trails in the same area:
el corte madera/skeggs

Reviewed by: JT , from Sunnyvale

Summary:
This is a cool trail to ride on. There are some nice single track downhihlls and fire road up hills. The loop isn't that long and the climb isn't that steep. It's a beatiful trail to be on. You can not only get a good work out, but also enjoy the ride. However, for driving a few miles more, you can ride Skegg's which is a better place.

Other recommended trails in the same area:
Skegg's