ROUTE № 13
Home turf
Dirt
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Farmington Canyon
The front door. Where the pavement ends and the whole point begins.
The front door. Where the pavement ends and the whole point begins.
Route line traced from OpenStreetMap — the real GPX drops when we ride it with the GoPro.
Where dirt begins. Air the tires down here if that's your religion.
Three corners in, the whole valley shows up. It never gets old.
The mid-mountain hub — campgrounds, aspens, and the choice: peak or ridge?
Every route on this guide gets ridden and filmed by the shop. This one hasn't had its camera day yet — it's on the Saturday list, and the footage drops right here when it happens.
Video slot · swap this block when the farmington-canyon footage lands
Farmington Canyon is the home system's entrance: the pavement runs out just past the water tanks and the dirt starts climbing immediately — shaded switchbacks, creek crossings below, the valley appearing and disappearing behind you. It's the after-work ride, the first-dirt-ride-in-twenty-years ride, the is-my-new-bike-actually-set-up-right ride. Nine miles to the flats and campgrounds, and from there the ridge system opens up: Francis Peak one way, Skyline Drive the other. Ten minutes from the shop. We are not objective about this canyon and we never will be.
Anything with knobbies and a plate. This is the shop's default demo loop — ask us, we'll ride it with you.
Farmington.
Gates, weather and closures change — check conditions before you ride. Ride your own ride.
The shop is the trailhead. Text us and we'll tell you when the next ride-out rolls — all machines, all paces, zero judgment about how long it's been.