Hidden Treasures

Less known biking destinations

The lonely wolves of bikers and the ones looking for new adventures are the ones constantly checking maps, strava, trailforks, etc in the search of the next undiscovered, little biking gem. It is however not easy to find the needle in the big haystack that is the huge databases of gps-tracks and trail platforms. Trail Hub and its bikers have been on the search and are happy to share it with you. 

Hidden locations imply that most people are not aware that a certain region or trail is a biking heaven. However, we are aware that this is very subjective and mostly depends on the biker’s home base. Another topic to be mentioned is that not every hidden bike locations needs to be promoted. Especially if the trails are only built by a few locals and there is no business or larger trail association backing it, it might not be ideal if the trails are ridden heavily by larger groups of bikers. We try to respect this by publishing only specifice trails where the locals want to put it on the map. 

There are many, by the masses undiscovered trail treasures, which also makes our sport so fantastic. Some are tucked in rural areas with hardly any touristic infrastructure whereas others are close to bigger cities that are however usually not known for good biking. We are willing to share a few destinations below that we would recommend to visit. 

Usually bike trails don’t build themselves and natural, well maintained hiking trails are not to be found everywhere. Therefore, most newer destinations have put in a lot of effort to build new biking trails, re-build old hiking trails and maintain them over several years. Especially the maintenance piece decides if a region is successful over the years attracting riders for tourism. A good example here is Calestano (in the Appennin mountains south of Parma). They have been around for several years and still have amazingly well maintained trails.