Flow Trail

Name: Flow Trail
Rating: 4.9

4.9 (73)

3.4 Miles 5.5 Kilometers Singletrack	11' 3 m Ascent -1,254' -382 m Descent
7% Avg Grade (4°) 24% Max Grade (13°)	2,028' 618 m High 785' 239 m Low

Shared By Garritt Cusack

Conditions

Minor Issues 6 days ago

Fallen Trees - Tree down after the first been on section 2 History

Getting forecast...

“A brand new four-mile flow trail in Santa Cruz Mountains that rips!”

— Garritt Cusack

Driving Directions GPX File

Dogs Leashed

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Description

Head down the Ridge Trail from Aptos Creek Fire Road passing Corral, Sulphur Springs and Braille Trail until you arrive at Segment 1 of the Flow Trail. Point your bike downhill and begin ripping the berms, whoops, and pumps galore the next 3 1/2 miles.

Contacts

Local Club: Mountain Bikers of Santa Cruz

Land Manager: Cal Fire - Demonstration State Forests

Easy: 5% grade, 2" obstacles

Easy/Intermediate

Intermediate: 10% grade, 8" obstacles, short harder sections

Intermediate/Difficult

Difficult: 15% grade, 15" obstacles, occasional harder sections

Extremely Difficult: 20% grade, 15+" obstacles, many harder sections

Your Check-Ins

Check-Ins

Sep 15, 2018

Jesse Vanderhoff

Trails were pretty dusty. Watch out for loose soil.

Sep 9, 2018

Ken Holt

Sep 4, 2018

Ben Allan

Sep 1, 2018

Jt Swisegood

Shuttled up to ridge trail and took ridge to flow trail. After flow, we took the fire road back up to the parking lot 14mi

Aug 28, 2018

Max Williams

Amazing! So fun and flowy, but the climbs are real.

Aug 17, 2018

Steve Dorsey

SUPER fun, and SUPER tough to climb out of. It's a LONG way out, but totally worth it. Needs maintenance most of the time, dangerous if not maintained

Aug 5, 2018

Don Dahlmeier

Jul 2, 2018

James F

Ride with Beck & Uncle Shaun.

Jun 30, 2018

Ribo Holganza

dusty and lots of brake bumps 5 hrs total for full loop (parking lot to Aptos to ridge to flow to hill Mill) 3.4mi

Jun 14, 2018

Aimie Hanson

Flow trail itself is amazing. Fun for intermediate riders. Be ready to climb in and out!! 9mi — 3h 30m

Jun 11, 2018

Kevin Ross

14.5mi — 2h 45m

May 31, 2018

Stephen Benson

awesome

May 26, 2018

Kari Browning

Awesome flow Trail! 30mi

May 21, 2018

Kevin Ross

15.8mi — 3h 00m

May 13, 2018

Sarah Ireland

the flow trail is so much fun! Getting in and out is a treck. 4 or 5 miles up hill. it was worth it.

Apr 28, 2018

Coltonpalmer

Apr 8, 2018

Scott Snow

Feb 3, 2018

Chris Fox

20mi — 2h 35m

Jan 21, 2018

Brian Paden

Great conditions

Nov 30, 2017

Jay Holsten

Oct 20, 2017

Glenn Ito

Oct 19, 2017

Nicole Ellsworth

Trail is fun but pretty beat up

Oct 3, 2017

Haydan Ehresman

20mi

Aug 20, 2017

Larry Russell

2210ft 6.4mi

Aug 19, 2017

Larry Russell

2nd Run 6.4mi

Jul 2, 2017

James Lindenberger

What an amazing ride! I've never ridden berms that big! Rode up the road climb to Ridge, then down corral, back up Sulphur Springs, then down Flow. 17.1mi — 4h 15m

Jun 26, 2017

Mark Kelleher

Unreal, amazing flow and huge fun! Tough fire climb up Sulfur Springs road. 3.4mi

Jun 23, 2017

Constantine Krotcov

Jun 20, 2017

Joseph Hart

Fun quad burner, I am not a huge fan of Flow trails, would rather ride more "organic" singletrack but this was fun. 3.4mi

Dec 20, 2016

Johnnie P.

Such fun. Stress induced stress relief.

Dec 4, 2016