As promised, we have a brand new Dodge City Cycles bike course for 2026 — one that we believe offers a good blend of technical singletrack, challenging climbs and super-fun descents. Try it, you’ll like it!

We highly recommend that you pre-ride the Dodge City Cycles Bike Course if you have the chance. Please note, however, that the course will be unmarked until race day, and that you’ll be riding at your own risk. For links to the interactive Trailforks maps, visit our Standard or Sprint pages. Those will be your best bets for pre-riding the course, but for those of you who like words better than images, a turn-by-turn description follows.

Like the Cumberland trails and want to support more trail development and continued access? We also highly recommend that you show your support by purchasing a United Riders of Cumberland (UROC) membership.

This route features some technical trails, although the techiest bits form last year have been removed. I’ll let you decide whether that’s good news or bad news. Nonetheless,

Dodge City Cycles Bike Course description

View interactive TrailForks map: Standard/Relay Course    Sprint Course

Beginning:

1. Start: BodyNetix Transition Area at Comox Lake
2. Follow the highway for approximately one km, then duck into the trails.
3. An unnamed access trail will take you toward the trailhead for Coal Creek Trail (AKA China Creek Trail). Don’t forget the quick left then right midway to stay on the access trail!
4. At the 2.5 km mark, turn right onto Coal Creek Trail.
5. Follow Coal Creek Trail past the bottom of Knuckers and DCDH, over the walking bridcreek bed and down into the Chinese Heritage Site (near the disc golf course). Follow that wide access path toward the road.
6. Hang a right just before the gate, ride over the boardwalk and climb the access trail toward the top of Mama Bear. Relish the fact that FINALLY you get to start climbing!
7. Turn left at the top of the short steep climb (which is at the end of a much longer but less steep climb!), and follow the access trail (the one you’re on) all the way to Davis Lake Main logging road.
8. Turn right on Davis Lake Main and follow it for about 300 metres. After the chlorine shack (brick building on the right side of the road), veer left onto Spanker.
9. Continue on Spanker (staying right when it forks) and follow it until it spits out on the water main trail (turn left).
10. Follow the Water Main Trail until the road, which you’ll cross and then continue straight down the trail that follows just to the left of the road.
11. This trail spits you out onto Davis Lake Main, which you’ll continue to follow up (left). When the road turns to the right, this is where the Sprint and Standard courses deviate!

Sprint athletes only:

1. At the curve in Davis Lake Main, head straight up “Shaker Road,” a rocky quad track that heads uphill to the left of the corner.
2. Pass the trailhead for Curly on your right, then veer right, through the concrete blocks, onto Allen Lake Road.
3. Continue to climb alongside the lake until you reach a rocky outcrop with Sunset Strip trailhead on your left. This is where you’ll rejoin the Standard course (skip to that section below).

Standard Athletes only:

1. Follow Davis Lake Main around the curve and over the bridge, then turn left toward Sobo No Michi (the Climbing Trail). Veer right at the Broadway trailhead to stay on Sobo No Michi.
2. Climb!
3. Stay on Sobo No Michi (the Climbing Trail) all the way to the top. There’s a brief downhill section (“Short Guts”) that will lead you to Sykes Bridge, which you’ll cross and then stay to the right to stay on Sobo No Michi. Otherwise, though you’ll cross a few old roads, jut continue climbing until you see the big Mosaic Hut at the top.
4. At the top of Sobo No Michi (just after the Mosaic Hut), turn left onto New Vanilla. Shout “Wheeeee!!” because your climbing is over. For now.
5. Spit out toward the right on the road at the bottom of New Vanilla, then follow the road for about 100 metres before turning right onto a rocky former road that’s unsigned but known on Strava as “Gentlemanly Climax.”
6. Climb that rocky route until it veers to the left onto singletrack and joins Climax, which you’ll keep climbing (to the right).
7. This is the toughest climb of the course. Suck it up and know that more fun stuff is in your very near future. (There are definitely a couple of tough spots on this climb that may force you off your bike.)
8. After cresting one final boulder, the trail curves toward the right an starts heading downhill toward Field of Dreams. You made it!
9. Veer left onto Field of Dreams and follow it downhill. Watch your speed on the hits and rollers, especially if it’s dry!
10. At the end of Field of Dreams, continue across the logging road onto Upper Blue Collar.
11. Continue past another decommissioned road onto Lower Blue Collar.
12. At the top of the short, steep climb, stay left to stay on Blue Collar and follow it until it spits out onto Allan Lake Main (onto which you’ll turn left to keep heading down)
13. After about 200 metres, turn right onto Trestle (it’s just after Railroad)
14. At the fork in the trail (after the railroad-looking sign) turn left (down) toward the creek bed and onto Allan Lake North.
15. Follow Allan Lake North about 400 metres until you get to Sunset Strip. This is where Sprint athletes will rejoin you.

Sprint athletes rejoin the course here:

1. Follow Sunset Strip (yes, it’s back, baby!), staying right at the fork, until it spits out onto an old, narrow road.
2. Cross the road onto Entrails.
3. Follow Entrails until its intersection with Shaker. Turn right to stay on Entrails.
4. Cross another old, narrow road to stay on Entrails, and then turn right onto Rugburn.
5. After a brief climb, a briefer descent and crossing a wooden bridge, turn right onto Scat.
6. Follow Scat until the end, where it spits out onto Perseverance Creek Main. Turn right.
7. Follow the road past Brat and then turn left onto Lower Crafty Butcher.
8. When Crafty Butcher ends and spits out onto a wide quad track labelled Round Out on Trailforks, go strait across it and onto Two Flats. This is the last short climb of the course!
9. Follow Two Flats past Outfox and across Bonestorm Uptrack (a quad track), and then stay right to get onto Bonestorm.
10. Follow the signage and flagging on Bonestorm to stay to the left in order to avoid the large rock roll — the rock roll is not part of the course! Continue over the rollers at the end of Bonestorm until it ends at the road and make a sharp left turn onto Davis Lake Main (East). (Although an old course map showed the course veering left off on Bonestorm toward the road, follow the sanctioned trail all the way to the end before turning left onto Davis Lake Main.)
11. Follow Davis Lake Main (East) for about half a kilometre, merging onto Davis Lake Main (West). Turn right at the bottom of Space Nugget toward past the Josh’s trailhead and toward the Swamp Bridge.
12. Cross the Swamp Bridge and veer right to follow the Coliery all the way to Village Park. This will be Race Central, BodyNetix T2 and a hive of activity on race day!
13. Pat yourself on the back, be thankful you don’t have to go out and run after your recon ride, and zip over to Cumberland Brewing Company for a treat, because you’ve earned it!