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Any recommendations for quality full suss bike hire and trails in San Diego?
Heading there for a family holiday in July and I will want to get out and experience some awesome trails.
Shameless bump!
Lived there years ago so can't help you with hire but,
- in town there are a number of canyons that you can string together on a ride. Depending on where you stay there would be no need to drive.
- further out, Noble Canyon and Anderson Truck Trail are the two that stick in my mind. Anderson is shorter and nearer to town. Noble is a great ride in the real mountains an hour or so east of town. Big climb, mainly on fire road, with a long single track down going from high altitude forest and ending in desert.
We go there a lot (got family there).
Trails - you'll need to travel to get anything good.
There are a number of small canyon and ridge sections close to the coast (Tecolote Canyon, Rose Canyon, Los Penasquitos) ok for cruising but nothing challenging, and there's a small trail park behind UCSD that can give an hour of fun. Mission Trails Park a few miles inland has quite a bit. The locals are a bit protective as there have been access issues !
Nearest decent is an hour inland at Mount Laguna, which has quite a bit of trail, some quite benign, but Noble Canyon is right up there http://www.singletracks.com/bike-trails/noble-canyon.html , ideally done with a vehicle at each end. There's some decent riding near there around Cuyamaca too.
Travelling a bit further there's good stuff in Idyllwild
and some other locations - I'll ask the boy for some more ideas. I've never had to rent as I use his bikes but SDMBA has some links.
And btw, there's a good network of bike trails for safe family riding round the bay, seafront, etc.
(posted same time as entry above !)
The only one he added was San Juan trail http://www.mtbproject.com/trail/7000572