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Our Story
The Park City Mountain Bike Festival was founded by a father-and-son team who grew up riding these trails.
The idea came from a simple observation. Park City has world-class terrain, a deep bench of shops and guides, and an unusually engaged trail community — but no single event bringing all of it together at once. There are races. There are group rides. There are demo days. What there wasn't was a festival built around the whole culture of riding here.
So we set out to build one, and we've built it community-first: from the ground up with local trail organizations, shops, land managers, and the businesses that make up Park City's summer economy. The goal isn't to import an event into Park City. It's to build one that could only happen here.
Why Park City
Every destination claims world-class riding. Park City is one of the few that can point to an independent score.
Gold - the first, and still the benchmark
Park City was the first destination in the world to earn the IMBA Gold — the program's highest tier — with an initial evaluation score of 96 out of 100.
What the evaluators found is what riders find:
- Scale. Over 400 miles of continuous, non-motorized public singletrack across two world-class mountain resorts plus 8,000 acres of preserved open space.
- Connectivity. Not isolated trailheads — a single master-planned network crossing multiple resort bases and tying neighborhoods, open space, and backcountry into continuous riding.
- Terrain that changes underneath you. Elevation runs from 6,000 feet to 10,000: high-desert sagebrush at the bottom, aspen groves in the middle, alpine ridgeline up top. Three landscapes in a single day.
- Every ability, genuinely. Lift-accessed downhill parks and jump lines at one end, family-friendly paved and gravel paths at the other, and a deep middle of flowing intermediate singletrack.
A Network That Works
The defining feature of riding here isn't any single trail. It's that the trails all find each other.
The system is reachable by bike path and free bus from nearly any point in town, serving cross-country, downhill, enduro, road, gravel, and BMX riders off the same network. You can leave a hotel on foot, ride all day, and be back on Main Street for dinner without touching a car.
That interconnection is what makes the big days possible. Because trails link across Round Valley, Old Town, both resorts, the Snyderville Basin, and up onto the Wasatch ridgeline, riders can assemble loops at nearly any scale — an hour after work, or a full day across multiple mountains without repeating a mile.
Trails that define the area
- Mid Mountain Trail — An IMBA Epic that hovers around 8,000 feet for roughly 26 miles across both resorts. The classic Park City traverse.
- Wasatch Crest — The bucket-list ride. High-alpine ridgeline starting above 10,000 feet, typically 12 to 15 miles with around 2,000 feet of climbing and 3,000 of descent.
- The Park City Epic — A second IMBA Epic: Armstrong and Pinecone combined with the Crest and Mid Mountain. Very few towns hold one Epic. Park City holds two.
- Round Valley — The everyday network. Quick-drying and close to town, it opens up to six weeks earlier than the alpine trails. Where new riders learn and locals ride before work.
- Lift-served bike parks — Three chairlift-accessed parks, giving riders gravity terrain without the climb.
And it's still growing: Deer Valley's East Village development is bringing more than 60 miles of new singletrack online.
(Coming 2027...)
The Park City MTB Festival
Our Commitment to the Trails
We're guests on a network we didn't build.
The trails this festival celebrates exist because of decades of work by the Mountain Trails Foundation, Basin Recreation, land managers, resort partners, and thousands of volunteer hours. The festival is designed to give back to that system, not draw down on it. Through partnership with local trail organizations, responsible event footprint, and programming that recruits new riders into stewardship rather than just onto trails.
A town that already knows how to host bike racing
Park City doesn't need convincing that a major cycling event works here.
The Park City Point 2 Point, held every Labor Day weekend, is one of the hardest single-day mountain bike races in the country: 75 miles, more than 10,000 feet of climbing, over 90 percent singletrack, and a true point-to-point course where riders never touch the same trail twice. Only a network this size and this connected could hold a course like that.
Its 2025 edition drew 355 starters ranging from 15 to 67 years old, from 23 states plus Canada and one rider who came from Nepal. The trails absorb crowds. The shops, guides, and volunteers have done this before. And riders across North America already have Park City on the calendar.
Everything a rider needs off the bike
A great festival is only half trails.
Lodging at every level — five-star mountain resorts for sponsors and families, mid-range hotels, condos and rentals sized for teams, a deep Airbnb market, and camping nearby. A destination that only offers luxury prices out most of the riding community. Park City doesn't have that problem.
Main Street — 64 Victorian buildings on the National Register, now home to more than a hundred restaurants, galleries, coffee shops, breweries, and retail.
Shops and support — a dense concentration of full-service bike shops, rental fleets, and professional guides, so a mechanical becomes an inconvenience instead of a ruined weekend.
Free transit — multiple free bus routes connect neighborhoods and riding areas, easing parking pressure and keeping attendees moving without cars.
Genuinely easy to get to
Park City sits roughly 35 to 37 miles from Salt Lake City International Airport — about 35 to 45 minutes up I-80 in normal conditions.
Most major mountain destinations are two to four hours from the nearest large airport. Park City is under 45 minutes from an international hub with direct flights from across the country. A rider can land midday and be on singletrack before dinner. For out-of-state attendees, sponsors, and vendors hauling demo fleets, that's the difference between a travel commitment and a long weekend.
A state and a community that back it up
Utah treats outdoor recreation as economic infrastructure and funds it accordingly. The state's Division of Outdoor Recreation recently awarded more than $19 million across 81 projects in 27 counties — over $61 million in total project value with local matching funds — including projects in Summit and Wasatch counties. Public agencies and land managers here are practiced at working with recreation events rather than treating them as a nuisance.
Locally, roughly 90 percent of Park City residents use the trails regularly, and in 2014 taxpayers and the city bonded to fund an expanded Trailside Bike Park. The Mountain Trails Foundation has been building and protecting these trails since 1992 as a member-supported nonprofit.
That's the part hardest to replicate anywhere else. Park City doesn't tolerate mountain biking as a tourism line item — it participates in it.