Review Date
August 8, 2007

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Aerobic Difficulty
 4 of 5

Technical Difficulty
 4 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Once a year

Reviewed by: bigdaddyof4 ,  Weekend Warrior

Summary:
Traveled to the Lacrosse area for work and found this trail on MTBR. What a great ride. This trail has a lot to offer anyone. The logs are a nice touch and the trails are well marked and incredibly taken care of. Nice job to the "Velo?" club for maintaining an outstanding trail system. If you are in Lacrosse looking for a great ride you have to ride the HPT. One thing to keep in mind if you are from out of the area the soil and tree roots can be a bit slick. I ride in the desert and mountains in So Cal and my Panaracer fire XC's didn't seem to be up to the task. The guys at Bikes LTD in LaCrosse hooked me up with a new set equal to the challenge.

Recommended Route:
the TT route seems to cover most of the trails. I followed that and then looked around for anything I missed.

Other recommended trails in the same area:
TNT is a pretty sweet downhill run. It is right across the street from the HPT trails. Nice climb back up too!!!

Review Date
June 2, 2007

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Aerobic Difficulty
 4 of 5

Technical Difficulty
 4 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Ridden Once

Reviewed by: duggus ,  Cross Country Rider

Summary:
Wow!!! I was in town visiting and thought I'd check out if there were any good local trails....and this one takes the cake!!!!! This is almost one of my favorite trails of all the ones I have been on so far. Lots of sweet singletrack with lots of decents and winding. Watch your elbows, it gets narrow at some spots! If your in the LaCrosse area and you mountain bike, you HAVE to ride this trail. Enjoy!!

Recommended Route:
I just followed the black arrows for the singletrack, some of the blue tracks are also difficult. It was all fun.

Review Date
March 20, 2007

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Aerobic Difficulty
 4 of 5

Technical Difficulty
 4 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Once a week

Reviewed by: tjkapanke ,  Weekend Warrior

Summary:
The LaCrosse velo club really works hard on these trails. This is one of the greatest systems I've ridden. Steep climbs, rocks, log obstacles, tight switchbacks, and nice downhill sections. The trails are very well built. They are also adding new trails in the near future. If you get a chance to ride here, do it. You will not be dissapointed.

Recommended Route:
They recently changed it to a one way recommended route. There is a map in the parking lot and good trail signage.

Other recommended trails in the same area:
Levis mounds in Neillsville, Lowes Creek in Eau Claire, Holzinger in Winona, MN.

Review Date
November 3, 2006

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Aerobic Difficulty
 4 of 5

Technical Difficulty
 5 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Once a week

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5, 2 votes

Reviewed by: marhefke ,  Cross Country Rider

Summary:
These are some of the best trails in the three state area. Great group of people making it happen in the La Crosse area. Check out their new site with maps and more infomation.
http://www.humanpoweredtrails..com

and their survey

http://www.humanpoweredtrails.squarespace.com/hpt-survey/

Recommended Route:
Any of them. Just follow the signs and you will have a blast. Be ready to either ride over some logs or dismount a few times. Its a great challenge.

Review Date
August 6, 2006

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Aerobic Difficulty
 4 of 5

Technical Difficulty
 4 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Once a week

Reviewed by: stelloh99 ,  Cross Country Rider

Summary:
this trail is awsome...me and my bro go up there like 2-3 times a week...ita alot of fun and u have to go!!!

Recommended Route:
take ob1 and go on some of those trails...u like to hop lots of logs and go throught some technical routs go on bob ots the funnest trail there

Other recommended trails in the same area:
go on the hixon forest trails...try climing tnt trail...its so hard to climb but fun coming down(on the way down u shoukd have discs,...because ur rim will heat up and blow a tire)