FullFloater:

Great place to ride if you're sick of Llandegla and the likes and its hardpack surface. It's rough, technical and super slippy when it gets wet. Red route is demanding on skill and fitness with steep descents and steep climbs. I'd recommend a lap of the warm up loop before setting off into the first descent. There's also 3 downhill tracks with 2 of them being on the "easier" side and main line being the more technical. You can ride main line on a trail bike no problem but be prepared for a trip to the dentist.

Warm up loop. Red route starts on an awesome descent. Serious Roots! LOAM!

Some serious climbs so be warned if you're not into that. Bit on the short side in terms of distance.

steve :

Superb cross country trail with some amazing climbs lots of roots which make it interesting

Good variety of trail terrain roots good long climbs not commercialised or over busy sun was out all day perfect

No bad points

stumpy_dan:

Hopton Woods Pierce XC Red is a rare trail as it starts on a flowing descent that still gives you a fun end to the trail. It's a decent red for England with many short descents full of berms, roots and little drops. Could do with a few more jumps and some of the many ups are very steep and could be trailed up a bit. Great for endurance and loads of short fun technical sections but just seems to lack that big long descent given the amount of climbing it asks you to do. Prone to mud which is when I rode but I like that as raises the technical nature.

Rooty descents Starts on a descent

Some v sharp hills No facilities