Lift-served mountain biking in Vermont

Friday, June 17, 2011 at 11:35 AM

Adrenaline rushes. Quick reflexes. Wind in your face. There’s a lot of crossover between skiing and mountain biking. Perhaps that’s why so many of us enjoy both sports!

Well if you want to kick your biking excitement up a notch, you might consider lift-served mountain biking at Vermont ski resorts. Starting this weekend, there’s a new offering on the list of resorts that let you take a bike up their mountain and zoom down.

Opening on June 18, 2011, is the Burke Mountain / Kingdom Trails bike park and lift service. The Sherburne Express Chairlift will be open for lift-served biking every weekend through mid-October.

Here’s a list of where you can do lift-served mountain biking in Vermont:

• Burke Mountain / Kingdom Trails in East Burke, Vermont
• Killington in Killington, Vt.
• Mount Snow in West Dover, Vt.
• Sugarbush in Warren, Vt.

Visit our Vermont Ski Resorts page for links to the ski resorts and Google maps that show their location.

Unsolicited advice: You should really be quite proficient at mountain biking on steeper hills and loose rocks and stumps before you try lift-accessed mountain biking. You are going to have a lot of vertical to deal with, quite a bit of speed, and it can be steep and challenging. Beginner riders need not apply!

Photo courtesy of Burke Mountain Resort.

Filed in: Burke, Killington, Mount Snow, Ski towns in summer, Sugarbush