Bicycle Trails - Zion and Greater Zion Area

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The Southwest is a bikers haven with incredible scenery, challenging bike routes and destinations that are in close proximity to each other. On the east side of Zion National Park you will find mountain bike trails and beautiful paved bicycle paths.  Gooseberry Mesa is a tabletop mesa located west of Zion, just off the Smithsonian Butte Backway. This is a popular trail with mountain bikers. The Grand Staircase-Escalante, Red Canyon and Dixie National Forest's, Cedar Mountain, are also perfect for your biking adventures. These destinations offer abundant biking and hiking opportunities. Make East Zion your "base camp for adventure" and peddle the great Southwest.

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Markagunt Plateau - Highway 14

Navajo Lake - Cedar Mountain
This 11 mile trail is a single track with no technical sections and is appropriate for intermediate riders.

Navajo Lake Loop
This 11.5 mile single track loop travels around Navajo Lake. The trail is an alpine trail, sitting at 9100 ft. The elevation change is 200 ft.

Virgin River Rim Trail
This is a moderate to difficult technical single track trail at over 9000 ft. elevation. The full trail is 32 miles.

Red Canyon - Highway 12

Red Canyon Paved Bicycle Trail
This section of Dixie National Forest offers a very smooth 5.5 miles paved bike path that winds long the rock formations and forested lands of Red Canyon.

Losee Canyon Trail
This 2.9 mile moderate trail begins at the bottom of losee canyon. This trail connects with the Cassidy trail.

Ledge Point Trail
This .6 mile easy trail is open to hiking, bikes and horses and ends at an overlook of Red Canyon.

Rich Trail
This 2.1 mile moderate to strenuous trail connects with the Cassidy Trail.

Cassidy Trail
This 8.9 mile strenuous trail is named for the infamous Butch Cassidy who used sections of the trail.

Thunder Mountain Trail
This is a 7.8 mile technical trail with lots of climbing. The trail is narrow, rough and there are places where the surface is loose. The red rocks on the lower section of the trail are outstanding.

Barney Cove Trail
This 1.9 mile moderate trail is used primarily as a connector trail between the Casto Canyon and Fremont ATV trails.

Zion National Park Bike Trails

Zion National Park is one of the most bike friendly parks in the National Park System. Bikers are seen peddling their way along the 13 mile Scenic Byway 9 through the park as well as making their way along the 6 mile Zion Canyon Scenic Drive.

Pa'rus Trail
This paved trail is the only trail in Zion National Park that allows bicycles, but it is a great trail with few elevation changes and it runs along the virgin river.  The paved trail can be followed into the Zion National Park campgrounds. The trailhead is at Canyon Junction and the 3.5 mile paved path follows the Virgin River. The trail crosses both Oak Creek and Pine Creek. At Canyon Junction there is a Zion Canyon Shuttle pick up and drop off and a small parking area. Canyon Junction is the intersection to Zion Canyon and Scenic Byway 9.

Zion Canyon
The road to the end of Zion Canyon is 6 miles. There is little traffic on this road other than the Zion Canyon Shuttle and the few cars that are going to the Zion Lodge. The elevation gain is 450 ft. There are numerous hiking trails along this path that can be taken.

Zion Mt. Carmel Hwy
This road begins at the south entrance to Zion National Park and continues to the east side of Zion National Park. East Zion offers lodging and other services as well as being central to many other Southern Utah attractions.

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Private vehicles can travel Highway 9, the Zion-Mt. Carmel Highway, through the east side of the park year-round. Oversized Vehicle Information
From April until October the only access to the Scenic Drive is via shuttle. From October until April private vehicles can travel the Scenic Drive.
Naturalist NotesNature Notes

Leave no Trace is a nationwide program that helps to educate those using our public lands.  The program tries to point out ways to minimize impact and to prevent damage to the land.  Much of the education is common sense. When riding please stay on the trails.  Avoid destroying cryptobiotic soil and other vegetation that might be around the trails. Respecting the environment and practicing minimum impact skills helps keeps these trails open for everyone.

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