North Trail

This Vail classic mixes alpine terrain and steep climbing with screaming descents and big views. From the Red Sandstone trailhead you hit steep switchbacks, a loose waterbar descent and a stream crossing near beaver ponds before climbing to wildflower fields and Gore Range views at the high point. A pedally descent through aspens leads into a rerouted flowing switchback section and onto the Davos doubletrack. A twisty final singletrack section drops you back to the frontage roads.