It’s official, Scotland is a global superstar when it comes to mountain biking, and there’s a whole network of dedicated and wild trails to explore. Many of our hostels are set in key mountain biking country, and provide practical facilities that help you take care of, and store, your bike.

Broadmeadows and Minnigaff
The best known Scottish mountain biking centres are the 7stanes across Southern Scotland. The flagship centre Glentress, near Peebles, now attracts over 250,000 riders every year – keen to explore the miles of fun-park style features and big downhills that the centre packs in. Other 7stanes centres include Glentrool, Kirroughtree, Dalbeattie, Ae, Newcastleton and Innerleithen, all of which offer an exciting blend of tracks for beginners through to experienced extreme downhill mountain bikers.

Glen Nevis
There’s a diverse range of trails surrounding the Glen Nevis area including the Witches Trails and Aonach Mar natural trails which provide well over 45km of trails and are among the most popular in the country. With its wonderful mix of natural and man-made trails set against a stunning mountain backdrop, Glen Nevis is a biker’s paradise.

Carbisdale Castle
Just up the coast from our Carbisdale Castle hostel is the mountain biking trails at Golspie. The 22km of trails head up from Golspie town centre to the stunning views out over the Dornoch Firth from the top of Beinn a’ Bhragaidh. Experience of riding tougher red and black trails is required to complete the full route, but the easier blue section is pretty exciting as well, with plenty of twisty single-track, big berms and fast downhill sections. More info: www.highlandwildcat.com

Cairngorm Lodge
The Laggan Wolftrax trails provide over 35 km of trails ranging from the green trail, which is great as an introduction to mountain biking, to the black grade trail which is a challenging trail full of thrilling features, challenging experienced mountain bikers.

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