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KINGDOM TRAILS REPORT CARD |
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KEY INFORMATION: |
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Total Vertical: |
N/A - XC trail network only. |
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Number of Lifts: |
N/A |
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Type of uplift: |
Your own legs. |
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Bike Attachment: |
Hands to grips & Feet to pedals. |
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Number of Trails: |
Dozens of trails & growing. |
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Guides available: |
Only through an independent company. |
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Lessons available: |
As above. |
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TRAILS: |
COMMENTS: |
RATING: |
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Beginner Trails: |
This is the place to teach your mum, girlfriend, or soft-city
slicker mate to learn to mountain bike!
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Intermediate Trails: |
Plenty of progression trails to take it up a notch. |
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Advanced Trails: |
Some very small features, rocks & roots. Lacks steepness. |
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Technical trails: |
Occassionally some technical bits of trail. |
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Flow/jump trails: |
Not the sort of place to go for jumps, although the trails do
have a great natural XC type of flow.
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N/A |
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Trail variety: |
No DH or Freeride, but there is good variety on the trails in the
form of small berms, rollers, roots, rocks, & ladder bridges.
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Trail Conditions: |
Well built and maintained. |
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Trail signposting: |
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Other trails in area: |
Q-Burke Bike Park trails are connected to Kingdom Trails! |
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PRACTICALITIES: |
COMMENTS: |
RATING: |
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Day Pass Value for money: |
It's pay-to-play at this trail centre that's built on land owned by
many different private land owners. Otherwise, it probably
would not exist at all.
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Ease of parking to lift: |
Plenty of parking near the main trailheads. |
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Lift lines: |
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N/A |
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Quality of rental fleet: |
Excellent at East Burke Sports. |
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On-site Bike Shop: |
As above. |
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Lunch options: |
Gas station mini-mart, the Country Store, the Tiki Bar food
truck, & Ruby Lee's Ice Cream.
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Water by the lifts (yes/no): |
Carry your own. |
N/A |
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Lockers available (yes/no): |
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No |
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Camping/RV park (yes/no): |
Up the hill at Burke Mountain Campground. |
Yes |
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VIBE: |
COMMENTS: |
RATING: |
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Staff friendliness: |
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Family-friendly: |
As a riding destination yes, but this is not a resort-type
location. However, there is a small rocky beach and swimming
in the river. There are hiking trails & Willoughby Lake.
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Restaurants: |
The Outback Pub & the Tiki Bar food truck. |
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Nightlife: |
What you make of it at the Tiki Bar! |
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Random: |
Only that this is on idyllic location to ride bikes that deserves the press it gets. |