The Most Insane Bike Park In New Mexico Is In A Tiny Pueblo Of Just 300

They said they wanted a bike park. They said they wanted it filled with huge and crazy jumps ... the wildest track in all of New Mexico. They got it and you won't believe where it is.

‘Okay, let me be clear: this jump is 50 feet long and the lip is 15 feet tall. Is this what you want?’ And they’re like, ‘Absolutely. We want to jump the road. We want the craziest jumps ever.'” - singletracks.com

The Picuris Pueblo, just south of Taos, New Mexico have created biker nirvana ... and they're not even pros. Not all of the 300 or so residents ride mountain bikes or do BMX stuff at all and the ones that do are, (probably), nowhere near the skill level this beast demands. See pics here.

Why Build A Bike Track?

There's nothing to do in this rural area, (or most any rural area) in New Mexico and the Picuris Pueblo tribal elders worried that lack of activities would lead the tribes youth down a road to ruin. So, they built the bike park ... and, Day-um; did they go big.

That's reason #1, reason #2 has to do with tourism.

The New Mexico Outdoor Recreation Trails+ Grant kicked in a big fat $500,000 grant hoping the track will draw outsiders in and, also anticipating big, "adventure tourism" dollars, the state is putting $15 million into trail upgrades across the land of enchantment.

The recreation facility the bike parks attached to already has a championship-certified pump track, a skate park, and an Olympic trampoline zone. The pump track is basically a training ground where novices can, hopefully, get good enough to move to the real track. There's no beginner track so; it's kinda all or nothing.

What Makes The Track So Intense?

The jumps in the medium line are all table tops, there are "hips" and the "lips" are pre-fabricated so they won't wear down or change. Berms allow riders to keep their speed up and they're all jumps. Granted, they're big enough to just "roll over" at slower speeds so riders can feel 'em out before fully committing. That's a little bit of a help. The smallest jumps are a pretty good size though, 4 feet in height.

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From medium to large, the track gets a little more hardcore. Same construction methods but it gets a lot more technical with things like setup jumps, mandatory drops and there are no "ride arounds". Once you go, you go.

Get through all that and you can move on to the "pro" track. Loaded with Crankworx features like step downs with lips on them, wall rides and a HUGE cannon log with a really big, long landing. It also has 9 foot tall slopestyle lips, 65-degree take-off ramps and 12-foot-tall landings. Here you can get flashy ... double backflips, cashrolls, etc. This is NOT a kiddie track.

Can You Practice?

They got Rocket Ramps to build two jumps identical to the pro tracks final jump. One gives you a drape airbag to land on and the other has a big pile of mulch to cushion your landing/fall. After that, you get dirt.

The practice zone is located near the road which track overseers humorously, (or, sardonically, really), say makes it great for spectating and also makes it easy to haul off the wounded.  See pics and learn more here.

The track is open to the public and, (currently), there's no charge to use it. Heads up though, at this time, residents and visitors alike must BYOB - Bring Your Own Bike.