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Kielder Mountain Bike Centre is situated in Kielder Water & Forest Park in Northumberland, North East England. It has 7 waymarked mountain bike trails starting from the trail hub at Kielder Castle visitors centre. There is family friendly greens, beginners blues, reds, a black and even an orange graded MTB trials area.

Overall there are over a 100 miles of MTB trails! So there is something for all abilities. That is a lot of trails for a trail centre but then the Park does cover 250 square miles, is the biggest working forest in England as well as being home to the  biggest man-made lake in northern Europe. What's more it is kissing the Scottish border and so has the 7Stanes bike centre at Newcastleton on it's doorstep. So we are talking good pedigree MTB terrain here. 

Borderline Trail (Blue)

• The blue Borderline trail is 11km (7 miles) long and starts from Kielder Village and follows the former Border Counties Railway line. It is perfect for all the family as it is fairly flat with mainly grassy tracks and occasional tarmac road. 
• Download the Trail map from here.

Castle Wood Skills Loop (Blue, Red and Black Options)

 The Lakeside Way (Green)

Osprey Trail (Blue)

• The Blue Osprey trail is 19km (12 miles) long and starts from Kielder Castle and heads up the Forest Drive to the first of several sections of single-track as it turns along Kielder Burn and climbs into the forest. The trail links back onto the Lakeside Way on forest road or via a new bridge over Plashetts Burn at Wainhope. 
• Download the Osprey MTB trail map 

 Lonesome Pine Trail (Red)

• The Red Lonesome Pine trail is 18km (11 miles) long and offers fun descents as well as having the UK’s longest, one metre wide, wooden boardwalk of its kind (quite a sight!). It starts from Kielder Castle and the first 3 miles are on the Lakeside Way multi-user trail. At Lewisburn you hit the singletrack and it then climbs out of the valley and heads up to the top of Purdom Pike at over 1000 feet then to get across the boggy terrain of Purdom Pike is a 1000 yards of timber north shore as mentioned. Then you have the descent back towards Kielder village, passing Skyspace and close to Kielder Observatory. The last bit from Bewshaugh to the village is a great flowing descent through the forest.
• Download the Lonesome Pine trail map

The Bloody Bush Trail (Red)

• The Bloody Bush red trail is 33km (20 miles) long and starts via the Lonesome Pine trail. It links Kielder Water & Forest Park to the Scottish Border and the 7 Stanes bike centre at Newcastleton. You can ride single-track to the border to tie in with existing routes in Scotland.  A return route via the existing Cross Border Trail makes for a ride of over 60km. 
• Download the Bloody Bush Trail map

The Deadwater Trail (Red) and The Up and Over (Black) Option.

• The Deadwater red trail is 15km (9.5 miles) long and starts from Kielder Castle. It takes in the 1,900 foot summit of Deadwater Fell which straddles the English/Scottish border. The trail descends from the peak back down to Kielder Castle on specially constructed single track, packed full of features like technical climbs, rock drop off’s, berms, single-track and north shore. 
• The Deadwater Black Grade trail, known as Up and Over is a 2.4km (1 mile long track that spurs off from the Red Grade trail just after Jimmy's Hill.  This section of trail has quite a technical climb, some skinny woodwork on an incline, and a fast descent. It ends with a gap jump in the Rattlesnake section.

Trials Park (Orange)

• The Orange graded Trials Park is jam packed with technical features like a rock garden, big jumps and a two metre high elevated timber trail, bikers using the new trials park will require body armour and specialist bikes. It has different progressive Orange sections for a variety of technical abilities. 

Other Stuff

• An overview map of all the trails can be found here 
• The trails are maintained for by the volunteer trail group, the Kielder Trail Reavers, who meet up regularly to help build and maintain the trail network. Get in touch.
• Timber features in the new trail area were built by Neville Potts, sponsored by Jacksons Timber in Hexham. Ian Bell and David Robinson from the Bike Place, Kielder, also helped with design and construction.

Groups and Clubs

• Kielder Trail Reavers
• Reivers MTB Club