Lift accessed mountain biking or Mountain bike park is a summer activity that is spreading all over the world. Using the chairlifts or gondola lifts at a ski area, mountain bikers can get up to higher altitudes quickly. The bikers don't have to ride up, and the ski area operators can keep the hill more profitable during the summer. Most bike parks have a mix of dirtjumping, downhill, enduro and freeride terrain on the trails.
Many ski resorts have embraced the sport, opening the chairlifts and building trails to rider in the summer. Lift-accessed bike parks are good because they offer the chance to make many more runs down a mountain than could be done without use of a lift.
Canada
Whistler-Blackcomb- Whistler, British Columbia Sun Peaks Resort- Kamloops, British Columbia Panorama Mountain Village- Invermere, British Columbia Fernie Alpine Resort- Fernie, British Columbia Kicking Horse Mountain Resort- Golden, British Columbia Mount Washington Alpine Resort- Comox, British Columbia (closed MTB operations down in 2013) Silver Star Mountain Resort- Vernon, British Columbia Blue Mountain- Collingwood, Ontario (closed MTB operations down in 2020) Horseshoe Resort- Horseshoe Valley, Ontario Mont Tremblant- Mont Tremblant, Quebec Mont Sainte-Anne- Quebec Mont Brome- Bromont, Quebec Mont Sutton- Sutton, Quebec Camp Fortune- Chelsea, Quebec Canada Olympic Park- Calgary, Alberta Rabbit Hill-Edmonton, Alberta (closed summer operations down in 2011) Sugarloaf Provincial Park- Campbellton, New Brunswick
France
Tignes, Savoie department Lac Blanc (Vosges), Alsace
Finland
Levi Sappeen hiihtokeskus Kalpalinna Vuokatti
Italy Mottolino Fun Mountain, Livigno
Norway
Hafjell
Romania
Bușteni Sinaia Azuga
United States Mammoth Mountain Ski Area- Mammoth Lakes, California Northstar at Tahoe- Truckee, California Kirkwood Mountain Resort- Kirkwood, California Angel Fire Resort- New Mexico Mount Hood Skibowl- Government Camp, Oregon Brian Head Resort- Parowan, Utah Snowbasin- Ogden, Utah Snowbird-Salt Lake City, Utah Solitude Mountain Resort-Salt Lake City, Utah Sugarloaf Mountain-Carrabassett Valley, Maine Sundance-Provo, Utah Park City Mountain Resort- Park City, Utah Deer Valley Resort-Park City, Utah The Canyons-Park City, Utah Plattekill Mountain- Roxbury, New York Vail Mountain- Vail, Colorado Killington Ski Resort- Killington, Vermont Waterville Valley Resort- Waterville Valley, New Hampshire Marquette Mountain- Marquette, Michigan Bryce Resort- Virginia Attitash Bear Peak-Bartlett, New Hampshire Whitefish Mountain Resort-Whitefish, Montana Keystone Resort-Dillon, Colorado Sunrise Park Resort-Greer, Arizona Seven Springs Mountain Resort-Champion, Pennsylvania Sunday River-Maine Alyeska Resort-Girdwood, Alaska Stevens Pass-Skykomish, Washington Pajarito-Los Alamos, New Mexico Blue Mountain-Palmerton, Pennsylvania Mount Snow-West Dover, Vermont Greek Peak Mountain Resort-Virgil, New York
Scotland
Nevis Range, Fort William Glencoe Mountain, Argyll
References
External links Map of mountain bike parks around the world