Review Date
June 4, 2008

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Aerobic Difficulty
 4 of 5

Technical Difficulty
 3 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Once a week

Reviewed by: sistum2spin ,  Cross Country Rider

Summary:
Very nice trail, dries extreamly fast after rain. Flow is excellent. A few man made features on the 2nd loop (intermediate trail). No truly excruciating climbs, no blistering downhills, but intermediate climbs and downhills can be found here. Not highly technical (even on the tec trail), but a great place to put in some miles, jump some stuff, hit a few features and still be home in time for dinner. Props to the Cincinnati Off Road Alliance for these fantastic trails!!

Recommended Route:
Connect all three loops in order, and ride it like an out and back. You get all three loops, both directions, and a total of about 14 miles. Do it twice if you like a longer ride, or ride it hard if you want shorter but fast.

Other recommended trails in the same area:
Tower park, England-Idlewild, Caesar's Creek

Review Date
April 21, 2008

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Aerobic Difficulty
 3 of 5

Technical Difficulty
 4 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Once a week

Reviewed by: mike_d_1583 ,  Cross Country Rider

Summary:
The entire system has been redone. Although they took out the teeteer totters on the middle trail, they still have the platforms. Unless your a begginer, I would start off on the intermediate trail, it gives you a chance to warm up and to get the feel for the trail. If you want something more, go to the advanced trail, they call it Tec Trail. The Tec Trail starts where the intermediate trail ends. You can either go to the parking lot off to your right or continue on to your left. Or you can skip the intermediate and just hit the Tec, in that case just take the gravel trail off to the right in the parking lot. But the Tec Trail doesn't loop, so you'll have to run through it again.

They are all good trails. I just wish they were a little longer. I usually do the middle and the Tec trails 2-4 times a peice when I go.

The begginer trail is pretty much a joke. Kids and older people would probably like it. It does have a few bridges though.

Recommended Route:
Either the Intermediate or the Tec Trail. There is a Google map in the parking lot telling you which is which.

Review Date
March 19, 2006

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Aerobic Difficulty
 2 of 5

Technical Difficulty
 3 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Once a month

Reviewed by: rmalling ,  Cross Country Rider

Summary:
Full of log stunts that will keep even the best cross country riders challenged; the stuff isn't high up or anything but it'll make you want to go out and buy that freeride bike you've been eyeing. Anyways, some fun skinny rollercoasters and a fun round fallen tree that looks impossible but is doable even with clipless pedals. I live in Colorado now but I miss the hours I spent trying to nail every feature recently built in East Fork. Props to CORA for building the features.

Recommended Route:
wherever.

Other recommended trails in the same area:
Tower Park

Review Date
September 5, 2005

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Aerobic Difficulty
 4 of 5

Technical Difficulty
 4 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Once a month

Reviewed by: KingsIslandLifeguard ,  Cross Country Rider

Summary:
If you're looking for a FUN place to ride then this is it! Trails are in awesome shape with TONS of wooden trail features from teeter-totters to balance beam rollercoasters to wooden berms to elevated platforms!!! Trails have a great mixture of climbs and handling portions and riding in the late afternoon is absolutely beautiful!! Two loops are ready now with a third loop to come in the near future. Middle loop a bit more fun than north loop but ride both when you go. After riding you can ride or drive down to the lake for a refreshing swim!!! GREAT PLACE.

Recommended Route:
Take 275 east to Batavia/Beechmont Exit. Turn right off exit and follow until you pass through the town of Bantam. Look for park entrance on the left when the road cuts down into a large valley. Trailheads are off of the parking lot about 1/2 mile down once in the park. Follow the signs.

Other recommended trails in the same area:
I dont know this area.

Review Date
April 23, 2005

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Aerobic Difficulty
 2 of 5

Technical Difficulty
 3 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Once a week

Reviewed by: randylm ,  Cross Country Rider

Summary:
Any previous reviews of this trail should be removed. This trail has been compleatly rebuilt by CORA and vols so the old trails are gone.The new trail system is laid out much better they run mostly the contour of the land with plenty of bench cut to reduce off camber riding and increase substainability and drying time to a couple of good days.before there was only 4 miles of trail. so far there are 6 miles of fast good flowing singletrack with more planed trail building days they expect up to 20 miles of trail.right now the trails are somewhat easy but fast big ring riding,(an advanced loop is in the works) also has some built stunts to make things challging and fun I would say east fork is quickly becoming some of the best trails in southwest ohio very senic and plenty of wildlife by the lake the landscape is wonderful.

Recommended Route:
any

Other recommended trails in the same area:
Tower park in northen ky