Gem Trail Review: 50 Year’s Steepest Sustained Tech
Expert Descent with Big Bonus Lines Every trail in the 50 Year / Golder Ranch network earns its reputation. The…
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Trail reviews are the core of what MTB Diaries does — and the hardest thing to do right.
Not a star rating and a stats table. Not a recycled Trailforks description. Not something written by someone who rode it once two years ago, or worse, never rode it at all.
Every review here comes from someone who knows these trails the way you know your home network — the line that looks wrong but is right, the rock that eats chainrings for breakfast, the moment where the desert opens up and reminds you why you do this.
Eight reviews and counting. All firsthand. All dirt.
Coming Around the Mountain: Going Backcountry at 50 Year
Granite Domes, Steep Climbs, and Earned Views Around the Mountain doesn’t ease you in. Two miles of steep pitches that…
Cowboy Slickrock Trail Review: Rounding up the Best Slickrock Slabs
Short Trail, Lengthy Slickrock Cowboy Slickrock doesn’t give you much trail. What it gives you instead is surface — wide…
Middlegate Trail Review: Flowing Tech in Tucson
Intermediate Step-Up in the Golder Ranch Network Middlegate might not flow the first time you ride it. Or the second….
50 Year Trail: Tucson’s Essential Network Artery
Golder Ranch’s Critical Singletrack Access Trail The 50 Year Trail is Tucson’s singletrack artery for the 50 Year / Golder…
Upper 50 Year Trail Review: Tucson’s Original Granite Tech
Upper 50 Year Trail is a Natural Wonderland Upper 50 Year Trail has more features—and bigger features—than most other trails…
The Chutes Trail Review: Tucson’s Most Iconic Descent
The Chutes is, simply put, Tucson’s most fun trail. It’s not the longest descent. It’s not the most technical. It’s…
Forever New Trail Day: A Pro Build at 50 Year and It’s Called Stone Cactus
Stone Cactus Trail is the newest addition in the 50 Year / Golder Ranch trail network—and the first professionally built…
