Hello from Stowe Trails Partnership, and happy 2025 riding season! This year marks a huge milestone for Stowe Trails Partnership, as we celebrate our 25th anniversary. That means a quarter century of community, trails, building, and having fun with our 1,000-plus members and nearly 100,000 annual visitors to our trails.

Vermont mountain biking is synonymous with our ever-changing seasons, challenging weather patterns, trail conditions and diverse terrain. From rocky and rooty, off camber and steep, to smooth and flowy machine-made trails, it’s an ever-changing puzzle that you try and piece together smoothly.

Stowe is defined not only by its mountains and valleys, but by a community that values access to the outdoors and a shared commitment to caring for the land that makes it all possible.

I spend anywhere from 8-12 hours a day during the week behind a computer. Between my job, extracurricular activities, and just life, that’s a lot of screen time — not even counting TV or streaming video.

With 1,000 miles of mountain biking trails across Vermont, it feels like Vermont has something for everyone. Now, with the addition of The Driving Range to Vermont’s trail system, it does.

Mark Leach has been riding the local trails longer than many riders have been off training wheels. The Stowe resident got into mountain biking in his late 30s, proving it’s never a bad time to pick up the sport.

Witnessing the sheer ubiquity of mountain bikers whipping through the singletrack, powering through muddy back roads, getting tricky on pump tracks or bombing down snow-free ski resort trails, it might be easy to forget that, just 30 years ago, these knobby-tired riders were considered persona non grata at a lot of places now embracing the sport.

The International Mountain Bicycling Association launched its Rules of the Trail in 1988 to educate mountain bikers and serve as a pro-bike advocacy tool. The association’s guidelines for trail behavior are now recognized around the world.