Review Date
August 5, 2007

Overall Rating
 2 of 5

Aerobic Difficulty
 4 of 5

Technical Difficulty
 2 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Ridden Once

Reviewed by: jamie123 ,  Weekend Warrior

Summary:
Wife and I stopped here on Our way to Landahl on Friday. This place is not as bad on hills like the one guy thought, but the spiderwebs were insane! I think one actually stopped my bike. I couldn't believe that it was a Friday late afternoon-early evening, and it was almost as if nobody had rode there in a week or better. There are all the makings of some great trails, just need to be marked better, I mean just marked. There are so many interconnecting loops, you could run circles for an hour and still only be 5 minutes from the parking lot. As for the waterfall, found that in 10 min. Luck I guess. Really need maps for the place. The hills are there and will be a good workout. Watch out for the dead limbs in the trees. One almost wiped me out. Fell from up high and landed about 10 feet out.

Recommended Route:
What route.

Other recommended trails in the same area:
Landahl.

Review Date
September 27, 2004

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Aerobic Difficulty
 5 of 5

Technical Difficulty
 4 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Once a year

Reviewed by: Mo Pride, Columbia, MO ,  Cross Country Rider

Summary:
HILLS! I rode this trail about half a dozen times when I lived in St. Joe in the late 90's. HILLS! It was a nice workout and very conveniently located in a nice big park not far from the parkway. HILLS! I recently returned and rode it again after years more riding experience. HILLS! The same trails were there, slightly more eroded and there were many more new trails besides. HILLS! There are some good obstacles, like a teeter totter and several bridges, at least two big ones and at least three or four that were about eight inches wide. HILLS! The terrain is a lot like this post so far: filled with HILLS! There are some fun, fast, flats, but they are few. Mostly you are encountering short very steep hills. Some of these hills are very very steep and the result is that some routes are essentially monodirectional. There has been a lot of motorcross riding in the past and some of the best trails are old motorcross trails. Locals would do well to combat erosion on some of these as there is noticeable deterioration since I was there in, let’s see, ’98. Rut are like runts (kids), you can’t see them growing day by day, but when you see a one you haven’t seen in a while, it’s amazing how much they’ve grown. Though most of the very steep hills are fairly short, there was at least one which was very long. I thought I was going to go over backwards! The result is a nice mix of strenuous, often technical (roots and rocks) climbs and thrilling downhills (both smooth and technical). My wife and I rode for two to two and a half hours and didn’t cover the whole place. I’d estimate that we covered about 40% of it. We rode recon-style, so I’d say a good upper-intermediate rider could ride for two solid hours full on like a lizard drinkin’ and never have to get too creative. An intermediate rider could easily get three-plus hours out of Krug. The locals have done a great job with the new trails and I wish them the best of luck. There’s a bikeshop in town now called Ride Bikes. http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ridebic/

Recommended Route:
The best stuff is the "red zone" up toward the river. See the map at the trailhead.

Other recommended trails in the same area:
If you are in St. Joe, you're within two hours of both Landahl and Minor which are both great. You're also a mere three hours away from Columbia, the mountain biking capital of the world!

Review Date
September 29, 2003

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Aerobic Difficulty
 3 of 5

Technical Difficulty
 3 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Once a month

Review Date
February 27, 2003

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Please Select

Review Date
December 11, 2002

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Once a month