From Highway 20 and 3rd street in Bend, Oregon, drive east 17.9 miles to the Oregon Badlands Wilderness sign, turn hard right and proceed 0.7 miles to the Horse Ridge Trailhead.
New trails have been built at Cline Butte, and more are proposed at Horse Ridge in Bend, OR. But will the "official" involvement in these trail systems threaten historic trails and e-bike access?
Several routes are offered at Horse Ridge that basically all center around the east facing aspect for gradual switch back as well as some steeper graded climbes when not follow the fence line out to the "longer loop." The longer loop has a cool feature to get you southbound in the shape of the old and now unmaintained red cinder highway (see two laned twisty road) that will take you to the summit of the ridge next to Hwy 20E. The descents are all on the eastern aspect of the ridge as well with the most notable "sand canyon" a 3-5min chute of you guessed it, sand. But fast and furious to say the least. Those who venture past sand canyon are rewarded with even more technical and sweet DH's for the skilled enough.
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Several routes are offered at Horse Ridge that basically all center around the east facing aspect for gradual switch back as well as some steeper graded climbes when not follow the fence line out to the "longer loop." The longer loop has a cool feature to get you southbound in the shape of the old and now unmaintained red cinder highway (see two laned twisty road) that will take you to the summit of the ridge next to Hwy 20E. The descents are all on the eastern aspect of the ridge as well with the most notable "sand canyon" a 3-5min chute of you guessed it, sand. But fast and furious to say the least. Those who venture past sand canyon are rewarded with even more technical and sweet DH's for the skilled enough.
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