Customer Reviews

Mountain Biking the Washington, D.C./Baltimore Area, 4th: An Atlas of Northern Virginia, Maryland, and D.C.'s Greatest Off-Road Bicycle Rides

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I live in DC and it's difficult to find a good ride without taking an afternoon drive. This book is really thorough and helpful, with places I wouldn't have otherwise known about and more info than I already knew about other places.

It had a lot of good trails that I would not have known about otherwise. It has trails for every skill level and gives instructions on how to get to the trails. It even includes an elevation map and picutres from the trails. My only complaint is that it defines the trails as easy,easy to moderate, moderate, moderate to difficult or difficult, but some of the trails are rated easy like the cheseapeke bay trail(which is the only trail in the book which is not mountain biking) and rockburn regional park. They are totally different, chesepeake bay is flat and no obstacles whatsoever while rockburn has obstacles and minor hills and doubletrack. The two are very different but rated the same so it would be better if it was rated on a scale of maybe 1-10 or something like that. To one of the other reviewers who said it didn't have real mountain biking-the book has gambrill in it, which is arugably the hardest mountain biking in the state and some of the hardest in the country. If thats not "real" mountain biking than what is? THere is plenty of real mountain biking in it, and this book was reccomended by many people to me. I would recomend this too, you should defintly buy this if you plan on going mountainbiking, whether you are a begginer, intermediatae or advanced biker.

This book is pretty much a joke of a guidebook. Most of the "trails" are things like bike paths and not really mountain biking... It pretty much misses all of the great trails in Maryland