Maple Lake East - Mountain Bike Staging Area — Attraction in Palos Township

WOW the mtb trails in here are major!!! Novices can enjoy everything as well just use your brakes downhill. No required jumps or drops and there is always room to walk around the unexpected.

-1 star for the lack of SIGNS that could warn random pedestrians to stay off the mtb trails. Locals have plenty of horror stories of crashes involving or caused by random walkers. Safest practice is to make NOISE both ways on slope sections, and if bringing kids have the biggest adult lead the way at all times. And brace for impact worst case.

Newcomers should bring a tracking app and be adventurous as there a lot of different paths and it's easy to miss a mtb path or get...

So, the trails here are quite nice. Lots of marked and unmarked ones for all kinds of taste. If you like an easy flowing ride choose the blue and green trails. For more advanced riders I suggest black and blue. Nothing super hard or extreme but still a nice ride and challenge every time i come here. If you ride all the marked trails it get you about 15 miles of riding. The only complaint here is it’s multidirectional and if you’re really flying you might run into another rider coming your way. Be careful...

Great location for some single-track mountain biking! I've only done a couple loops, but I do love this location! A nice challenge for a noob like myself to get my biking legs in shape and get used to popping up over roots and whipping around corners quickly! Everyone here is polite and more than happy to let you pass or wait for you to move to the side so they can...