Reviewed by: Jon H ,  Cross Country Rider

Summary:
I'd say Michaux offers some of the most challenging and fun riding on the east coast. I'd recomend it to anyone. The race course is most of all extremely fun and challenging. That's all I have to say. I need to go get on my bike.

Reviewed by: peaceDog , from Shippensburg

Summary:
Lots of sweet TECHNICAL singletrack. Don't ride here if your looking for a quick 6-7 mile ride on buff trails. Apparently the girls from Jersey came to Michaux and got there asses kicked. I recomend that they work on their technical skills and give it another try instead of making a bunch of lame jokes over and over. Then again, maybe they should try road riding.

Recommended Route:
start at the Big Flat parking area and find the red trail.....i think.

Other recommended trails in the same area:
Try the race that's held here in July.

Reviewed by: Adam Rettig , from Waynesboro, Pa (Franklin Co.)

Summary:
As a note to reader, I travel these trails on a daily basis (work permitting). The entire area is hazardous to one's health. Everything from being shot at to having beer bottles thrown at me has happen at least once in Michaux St. Forest. The riding is good if you are comfortable taking those risks. Frankly, the Pa turnpike is a safer ride. As for me, I'll stick with riding the Fredrick watershed area and Green Ridge St. Forest (MD).

Recommended Route:
Any trail in Southern Michaux

Reviewed by: Ron Howard , from Frederick, MD

Summary:
This is one of the few epic races in the east coast. All the trails are great. If you up to the challenge, bring it on! Once when I was riding I saw some really fast guy on a black homegrown with a fender. He was really cool.

Recommended Route:
The race course is great. I love very hard and long rides. You will definitely get your money's worth if you choose to compete in the Curse of Dark Hollow. If your a pussy or complain a lot go do a road race.

Reviewed by: Rick Kline , from Fairfield, PA

Summary:
The Curse of Dark Hollow is not a trail it is a race!!!The course is comprised of numerous trails in the Michaux State Forest (predominently technical single track). It is not the name of a trail as far as I know. I believe the race was named for a particularly nasty section of the inaugural course called "Talus Trail" which descends from Yellow Hill and skirts the upper portion of Dark Hollow??? (Anybody know the answer to this...) It is part of an abandoned enduro network from the 70's and as such is heinously rocky!! This is bad news since Michaux is notoriously rocky by any standard and this is truly the baddest of the bad. Bring your hiking boots if you're exploring. I don't believe this trail is part of the race course any more, which is the good news.

Recommended Route:
Follow the course! It is long and strenuous and offers three loops each July, with variations from year to year. The Start/Finish is at Big Flat Parking Area off the Shippensburg Road several miles west of PA 233. Don't stray from the sweet course because many intersecting trails are atv-abused, washed-out, and extremely perilous. Lots of "dirt roads" and double track make it very confusing and easy to get lost!!! The best way to explore this area is to do the race in July (usually the third weekend).

Other recommended trails in the same area:
Far too many to count. Better be an excellent technical rider to gleen any enjoyment out of these extremely tight, demanding rocky, muddy, rooty, snake-infested, redneck-trodden mountains.