Have You Ever Taken an International MTB Trip?

Where, outside of your home country, have you mountain biked before?

By Matt Miller
December 10, 2023 Last Updated: December 10, 2023

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Mountain biking into a Mexican village in Oaxaca. Photo: Matt Miller

There are too many good places to ride inside North America to count, and the same is true outside its boundaries. Mountain biking is typically a sport for people who deem themselves adventurous and one way to add to make the adventure more complex is by traveling to a foreign destination.

Whether you’re from the U.S. and traveled to Canada, or vice versa, or have set out on a bigger journey, have you ever ridden on foreign soil? If so, tell us where your favorite place to ride outside of your home country has been in the comments.

And if you haven’t yet traveled outside your own country to ride, which international destination is on your must-visit list?

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Sunspot Colorado // 2019
Dec 10, 2023

One of these days... Would love to travel with my bike and take on an adventure of the dirt kind. Torn between which bike and part of that is Rigid HT, FS and geared or SS. Being as attached to each of my bikes as I am, that is a major stumbling point. Working through cancer treatment made that bond even greater since human support was nearly absent through that chapter. So, there ya have it.

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GuySteiger California // 2015
Dec 11, 2023

European living in the US, I did two trips to Mexico (volcano north of Mexico City and Mascota), one to Canada (Whistler), one to Italy (Finale Ligure) and numerous to the Alps (Switzerland and France). I am also a frequent traveler to Moab (I know it is in the US but look like being on another planet)

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OhioFatBiker Ohio // 2016
Dec 10, 2023

I have been to some local trails in Ontario, but it was very similar to what I always ride in Ohio and Michigan. I almost got the chance to do it in Mexico, I was working down there in Aguascalientes and discovered our new engineering manager there also loved mountain biking, but before I made another trip the company switched my role and my new responsibilities did not have me traveling to that facility anymore. Someday I will plant that distant pin in the map.

Sam James British Columbia // 2018
Dec 11, 2023

I'm fortunate to have ridden bicycles in the UK where I'm from, the French/Swiss Alps, New Zealand, Australia, Canada (where I now live) and Colorado. I certainly don't take for granted how lucky I am to be able to ride in such amazing places.

andrew317 Ontario // 2023
Dec 12, 2023

When I lived in Honduras, I did the "Trifinio MTB ride", three countries in three days. Day 1: Honduras to Guatemala. Day 2: Guatemala back to El Salvador. Day 3: El Salvador back to Honduras. Greatest cycling experience in ny life (so far).

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