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7stanes (Dalbeattie), Dumfries, Dumfries & Galloway
7stanes (Dalbeattie)
Campbell House
The Crichton Business Park
Bankend Road
Dumfries
Dumfries & Galloway
DG1 4UQ
Telephone: 01387 702 228
With its coastal setting and the lack of any big hills, Dalbeattie has a relaxed feel, but the riding is far from dull - the outcrops of rock and fine views make sure of that.There’s a broad range of trails on offer and it’s the granite rock that defines the riding here. While the green-graded Ironhash trail offers easy biking mostly on forest roads, the blue-graded Moyle Hill route will have your tyres crossing short sections of rough rock and narrow trail - but the riding is fun rather than difficult.
On the red-graded Hardrock trail things go up a gear, and the surface becomes both rougher and rockier, with several notably challenging stretches. Its the black-graded sections, however - The Slab, the Terrible Twins and Volunteer Ridge - that get people talking and the heart racing.
Recent trail building has increased the amount of singletrack in the routes and, at the trail head, a skills area with differently-graded loops gives a taste of Dalbeattie riding for those new to the area or to mountain biking. The skills trails total 1.5km in length and are on 100% singletrack.