Britain’s Best Trails 2019: As Voted for by You | Mountain Bike Rider

We’re celebrating the hard-working folk responsible for the trails we love to ride with our MBR Trail of the Year competition in association with SRAM. We asked you, our readers, to vote for your favourite new UK trails of 2019 in two categories: Commercially built and volunteer built. With great pleasure we can now reveal the winners.
As ever with the Trail Of The Year awards the response for nominations was incredible. All kinds of trails from across the country were put forward and after collating your suggestions seven finalists for each category emerged. We then asked you to vote for your favourites and when the polls closed we were left with two very worthy winners.

Hamsterley and LUBP are each worthy winners of MBR Trail Of The Year awards. Each takes the concept of creating a trail that is fun to ride whatever your ability but their locations couldn’t be more different. Both, though, are much more than just good places to ride. These trails are being used to drive change and to grow the sport and develop new riders while at the same time keeping experienced riders coming back for more. It’s not an easy task but when it works it works well, so it’s no surprise that both K-Line and LUBP Red Trail have won over MBR readers.

Both trails also show that mountain biking and trail building in particular can be a catalyst for bigger and better things – bringing people together, giving a sense of purpose and rewarding efforts, both on and off the bike. Time on the bike is precious but time spent building new places to ride is equally worthwhile.

Trail Of The Year finalists: Commercially built
Leeds Urban Bike Park -Red Trail, 38%
Revolution Bike Park – Vision Line, 33%
BikePark Wales – Enter The Dragon, 10%
Dyfi Bike Park, 9%
Coed-y-Brenin – MinorTaur Blue Trail, 6%
Dirt Factory Indoor Bike Park, 2%
Nant yr Arian – Blue Trail, 2%
Trail Of The Year finalists: Volunteer built (wins £2,000 of funding from SRAM)
K-Line Trail (Hamsterley Trailblazers) – Hamsterley Forest, 29%
Oakwell Hall (Ride Kirklees), 20%
Woburn Bike Park (Woburn Bike Trails) – Longslade Trail, 13%
Forest Of Dean (Dean Trail Volunteers) – Verderers, 10%
Cannock Chase (Chase Trails) – Follow The Dog, 10%
Gisburn Forest (Gisburn Foret Trail Builders) – The Long Way Down, 10%
Innerleithen (Tweed Valley Trails Association) – New York, New York, 8%

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