Review Date
October 3, 2012

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Aerobic Difficulty
 4 of 5

Technical Difficulty
 3 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Ridden Once

Reviewed by: eparrot ,  Weekend Warrior

Summary:
Holy trail network, batman, Kingdom Trails is the real deal. My buddy finally got me up there to ride and it exceeded what I thought was his highly questionable raving.

So much has been said about this network, I won't waste a lot of time on details. Suffice to say there's terrain for everyone, including the kids. I'm a roadie who is long on enthusiasm and short on technical skill (this can be a lethal combination), but I tried a little of everything. My favorite trails were:
-Old Web's: a pretty smooth ripper with a few little lifts - almost anyone can ride it, but it takes a certain amount of skill to hold your speed through the turns. A must ride for anyone visting KT.

-Kitchel: The original machined downhill trail with berms and jumps. Again, most riders can do it, and it's a blast, but doing it fast or well. . .that's a different story.

-Up Cat Box Hill/Tody's Tour: Also called the Willoughby Way climb for the combo. 300 feet in just over a third of a mile, sandy on Cat Box, a few gullies near the top of Tody's Tour. This is only for the masochistic among us.

Review Date
September 28, 2012

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Aerobic Difficulty
 3 of 5

Technical Difficulty
 3 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Ridden Once

Reviewed by: george Whalen ,  Cross Country Rider

Summary:
The Kingdom Trails are amazing! Like the moab of the east on a smaller scale with woods instead of desert. Super fun and inviting. Laid back atmosphere with great single track for miles and miles with classic views. Lots of wonderful french-canadian folks to mingle with. All of the trails are ideal and have added bonuses with in. The most popular trails that I've heard mentioned are short downhill trails with are great fun but at most ten minutes long. There are many many others that wind and turn up and down over tons of rocks, roots, bridges and ravines. Absolutletly superb riding. Very well maintained!! Considering they are mostly on private land. Super buff single track that you dream of. The climbs are relatively easy and short but are up and down. This is coming from out west where you can climb for over an hour easy. There are soo many routes you can put together for world class riding. Mapping and signage is unbelieveable! I've never seen such coverage in this vast of an area. Every trail I rode , which was pretty much all of them except burke mt ski area, was totally buff and the natural obstacles were well featured. I'm a xc racer and dh racer so I understand the difference and appreciate mountain biking as a whole and this place defines that as much as any!! Ill be going there there for the rest of my life...

Review Date
September 17, 2012

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Aerobic Difficulty
 4 of 5

Technical Difficulty
 3 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Every few months

Reviewed by: Curtis ,  Weekend Warrior

Summary:
I have been here a few times now and I have to say it's a lot of fun. If you start at the bike shop in town and make the climb up Darling Hill it's a great way to start your day...with a killer climb to warm up the legs! Once at the top the trails are fast, smooth and very flowy. The trail map is easy to follow once you've been there a couple times but I can see what people are saying about reffering to the map often on the first go. Even still the "must ride trails" are easy to find and well marked. My one complaint is due to its popularity...the "must rides" (especially Sidewinder) are getting really worn out...the dirt is getting very lose, roots are exposed (at spoke-level) and they getting very bumpy for the speed in which you travel on these things. Kitchel and Tap 'n Die never seem worn out though!

Recommended Route:
Tap 'n Die, Troll Stroll, Pound Cake, Cup cake, Sidewider, Jaw and Kitchel are all a lot of fun.

Other recommended trails in the same area:
Millstone - 1-2 hours away

Review Date
August 7, 2012

Overall Rating
 3 of 5

Aerobic Difficulty
 4 of 5

Technical Difficulty
 4 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Ridden Once

Reviewed by: Elduder ,  Cross Country Rider

Summary:
These trails are way overrated. I traveled very far to ride these and I did enjoy it but I have way better trails over in Indiana that would put these to shame. These trails a huge spiderweb so be prepared to consult the map numerous times to figure out the route you want to ride. They also charge $15 a day but I do not see where the money goes since there were quite a few downed trees that needed to be cut out and had been there for what seemed to be quite a while. I build trails as a volunteer down here in Cincinnati and I would not want my name associated with building these trails since there is fall line trails, stumps galore and other issues. I did enjoy the roots and the rocks they had on the trail.

Recommended Route:
We did two fun routes and the first one consisted of 27 different trails. In order we did it like this Green loop, Poundcake, Fenceline, Pastore Point Loop, Pastore Point, Coronary, Bemis, Troll Stroll, Eager Beaver, River Run, Dry Feet, West Branch, Hog Back, Side-Winder, West Bench, Old Web's, Violet's outback, Knob, VAST, Bill Magill, Heaven's Bench, Ridge, Rim, Connector, Pines, Sugar House Run, Riverwood. Highlights of this were Troll Stroll and Sidewinder. We then replaced Troll with Tap n Die which was more fun.

We also did a shuttle from the top of Moose alley which we then hooked up with white school and finished with Kitchel that was a lot of fun and almost all downhill.

Review Date
October 12, 2010

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Aerobic Difficulty
 3 of 5

Technical Difficulty
 3 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Once a year

Reviewed by: Heather ,  Weekend Warrior

Summary:
Was up there this past weekend for the second time. The trails were a bit busy at times, but that's to be expected on a beautiful holiday weekend. The trails, were a little muddy due to the rain, but that just made it more fun. We hit several of the black diamonds-PINE was awesome, just be prepared to climb back up. Kingdom has such great variety for all levels of riders.