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South Shore (Fruit) Trail
23 reviews
4.3 of 5
This is the forum page for the new "South Shore" Trail. This was the Grapefruit trail. There has been alot of activity here latety. There are some fun freeride jumps and a small loop that includes some technical ridge lines that are challenging. Alot of the trail has been there for years, and the new stuff is almost re-creating and adding the fun to a trail that has tons of potential. Thursdays @ 5PM is the group ride and trail work day. We meet @ the St. Josephs church parking lot on Babcock just south of Port Malabar. It''s fun now, and will only get better. Remember how fast Wickham Park changed? You ain''t seen nothin'' yet! We will post trailbuilding and maint. times on this page, so keep an eye out for new postings.
Just past the Melbourne Tillman canal bridge on Babcock St. take a right off the sidewalk and thru the grassy field. About 50 yards on the right there is a small opening in the trees that goes straight down . Watch you speed and no front brake. The trail follows the canal for a few hundred yards and crosses the dried out(sometimes) creek bed. On the other side, the trail continues up the hill and to the newer stunt sections. It continues all the way to where you go under I-95. Best to go with the group the 1st time.
Summary: Ahhh, now this is a sweet trail, as good as the Ft. Pierce trails, which I sorely miss. Has many sweet drops, ups & downs with some technical areas, pretty much something for everyone, and you can get some speed on this trail. I have lived here all my life here in Melbourne (40 years for me & my family since the late 1800's) and I have never heard of this trail until yesterday, and rode it for the first time today. Loved it! Saw some of the trail builders hard at work doing a very fine job on one of the steeper drops. Thank you! Will go out tomorrow if the rain permits, got ran out today due to some hard rain sweeping in. This trail by all means blows away Wickham & Malabar Scrub/Turkey Creek by all means. Since Ft. Pierce trails CLOSED, we have been MTB'ing at Wickham & Malabar Scrub/Turkey Creek along with traveling from time to time to Alafia, Balm Boyette, Santos, and Orlando's trails. Gas burning trips but very much worth it for Alafia & Santos. It is really sweet to have our own MTB trails here locally and I would like to thank all the trail workers and everyone else involved in keeping these trails open for us MTB'ers. Thank you and greatly appreciated.
Recommended Route: Just south of Port Malabar Blvd. off of Babcock Rd.. Heading/riding south on the west side sidewalk off Babcock, you will pass Melbourne Tillman Canal, make an immediate right after passing the Canal follow the obvious path/trail a few hundred yards in a field. The trail leads to an opening in the bushes on the right alongside the canal and will drop down, follow this trail back aways into the bushes and it will take you to a network of trails leading all the way to the west side of I-95, which you will pass under. Their are other entrances from the neighbor hoods bordering these trails, but please park either at the shopping Plaza's (east & west side) off of Port Malabar Blvd. & Babcock Rd., or at the Saint Josephs Church, but I recommend the Plaza's unless you have permission to park at the church.
Other recommended trails in the same area: Alafia, Santos, Balm Boyette, Carter, Orlando trails, Deleon Springs (next to the State Park). Local trails - "Ho Chi Minh trail" at Malabar Scrub/Turkey Creek trails, Bum trails, & Wickham Park.
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Summary: Forgot to add yesterday: Bunch of us just got back from N.GA. and it was sweet! We stayed @ Mulberry Gap Bunkhouse Inn outside Ellijay, (www.mulberrygap.com )and I highly recommend this place. Great singletrack downhills that you can shuttle to the top and bomb down to the Inn. They provide 2 huge meals a day, and will give you maps and directions. Diane and Ginny will feed you with awesome food and they couldn't be nicer. 2 hot tubs to soak after the ride didn't hurt either. There are tons of trails to ride close by, but the Pinhoti #2 & #3 are worth the drive alone. This was my 1st MTB trip to Ga but NOT the last. Check it out-
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Summary: Hey everyone,
The trail is still loads of fun. We're slowly rebuilding the stunts(with dirt this time). The flow is back. I handfull of guys will be out today if the rain holds out. Come out and join us. May need to start clipping branches again. If all of us do a little... well, you know! Been out of state riding, but it's always good to come back to our homegrown singletrack. It's only getting beter-OUT
Recommended Route: Park @ the church. The fire road from the hood has a cable to prevent access so watch your neck if you ride in that way(not good anyway).
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Summary: There's good news and bad news and good news again about this trail.
Good news #1: No one's injury caused the ramps, etc., to be torn down. Some canal management workers discovered the trail and took pictures of the woodwork, showed it to their lawyer and the lawyer said to tear it all down.
That's the bad news.
Good news #2: The canal people have no interest in closing the trail. It's good they know about it and still don't want to close it down. The guys I talked to said it wouldn't be possible for them, and they'll probably never cut down the woods that protect the trail. I also asked if benign stuff like creek bridges could be built again and they seemed to think they could, but that would require a formal request and I'm not sure if the trail builders want to go that route.
Anyway, the trail will stay open, and it's awesome.
After riding it some more, I'm even more impressed. It only takes 5 minutes at speed to do the upper trail one way, but I usually do it 4 times before taking a break. Really good stuff; cheers to the builders.
(And the canal people missed one big jump ramp...)
Other recommended trails in the same area: Turkey Creek (little elevation): 5 mins.
Lil-Big Econ (maybe 10 mins. of up-and-down stuff along a canal): 1 hr.
Alafia, Markham, Santos (awesome stuff): 2:30 hours.
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Summary: Nice set of trails for the area. I would recommend it to anyone who lives only 10-15 miles away. There is a lot of potential and people building the trails have some great plans. There was no woodwork (bridges) but I bet there could be more. There were a couple of packs of kids around but they were no problems. I could not find anything on the other side of 95. If these trails continue to get worked on please let us know. Again thanks for building the trails.
Recommended Route: From 95 north. Take Exit Palm Bay road (516) go to Babcock rd take a right. Go down for about 2 miles on the rt is St Joe's church park in the front. Get on your bike and head south over the canal and turn rt in the field. YOu will see the beaten bike trail and follow down the canal and back to the trails.
Other recommended trails in the same area: NO....that is the problem.
My rating is based on Santos being the 5 in Florida.
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