MTB Trails in Batemans Bay & Mogo

I am in Jervis Bay and there is not much except for fire trails here. Some of them are badly maintained enough to be interesting. I ride the SCUM trails near Nowra sometimes but they are not very challenging if that's what you are after. There is also the funnel Web out the back of Wandandian. I haven't been there yet so I can't comment on it but the fires went through there and it could be in need of repair.
 
Wollongong/the Illawarra has it all. Plenty of very good gravity riding and great beaches. Within 20 minutes I have many hours of riding including quite a few proper challenging descents that suit enduro bikes. Elevation is around 250-300m so about as big descents as you will find outside of the Aussie "Alps"/Tassie. Trails are not legal of course, but far from a secret.

There is good surfing, snorkeling and diving. Last weekend I went riding one day and snorkeling with grey nurse sharks the next. They were both done within 20 mins from home.
 
LPG said:
Wollongong/the Illawarra has it all. Plenty of very good gravity riding and great beaches. Within 20 minutes I have many hours of riding including quite a few proper challenging descents that suit enduro bikes. Elevation is around 250-300m so about as big descents as you will find outside of the Aussie "Alps"/Tassie. Trails are not legal of course, but far from a secret.

There is good surfing, snorkeling and diving. Last weekend I
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This! and the trails will be legal one day.

There is also Green Valleys for big jumps too.

The gong does not have that sleepy coastal town feel if that is the sea change desire.
 
Most likely stick around Ulladulla way so this all sounds slightly upsetting. Before the fires on one of the FB pages I read that the Shoalhaven/Mogo area had been approved for some great mtb tourist desto thing linking up with existing trails. Did I dream that or is it just a real dream.
I had to help build my own trail up here but that was 11 years ago so not quite as able to put in the long hours
But even some committed riders to get on the tools with would do.
I found a 10 year old post on nobmob raving about the Kings Point trails. Are they salvageable?
 
Mogo was fantastic. Lots of good trails but mainly XC oriented (some more enduro type of trails if you knew where to look).

Woodburn is fun but very groomed, not somewhere that would keep me entertained for very long...Ulludulla similarly has some more natural rockier stuff if you know where to look (near Lake Burrill).
 
I did not explore the whole Kings Point area and there was the potential there but what I rode would have suited my fat bike. If I am down there again I will explore more of it and report back.
 
NSW state gov tourism strategy is mostly focused on locations not already popular tourist destinations
 
slimjim1 said:
Mogo was fantastic. Lots of good trails but mainly XC oriented (some more enduro type of trails if you knew where to look).

Woodburn is fun but very groomed, not somewhere that would keep me entertained for very long...Ulludulla similarly has some more natural rockier stuff if you know where to look (near Lake Burrill).
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Looking at Woodburn online it looks so short and overly perfect that you would need approval from someone in authority to remove a twig from the trail
'if you know where to look' sounds much more promising

I imagine that this is a pipe dream - particularly now
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DeBloot said:
Sounds promising doesn't it
Best time to create new trails is after a fire
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post fire Free riding is the holy grail
I did 6 months non stop , every chance we got after the 2003 Canberra fires, was fucking epic until the spring rains bought the blackberries back in global proportions
uncovered so many hidden features like massive granite slabs and gully runs
 
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Mogo Trails construction start - Rocky Trail Destination

With the paperwork done and dusted, Rocky Trail Destination can confirm that ground-breaking work on Mogo’s new mountain-bike trails starts this January! Our team is on site and the trail builders from Next Level Mountain Bike will set up shop… Read More Mogo Trails construction start
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It's been a while getting the environmental details sorted, but they are about to start digging.

Same trail crew who did Fox Creek in SA - pretty sure the 'burners there are happy with the work? @ozzybmx @Ackland @shiny @rockmoose ?
 
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Pretty ambitious project.

Definitely have some questions about the stuff out the west side of the highway/Mogo. The soil out that side is very sandy/fragile and prone to erosion (definitely some unique terrain though, interesting boulder fields etc). On top of that, motos are a big problem out there. Will need to figure out how to deal with this issue, and who will be doing maintenance over the long term.
 
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Mogo, NSW Gets Massive | First stage of 'uge mountain bike trail project to open in August

After a long journey, the Eurobodalla Shire Council, Rocky Trail Destination and Next Level MTB are nearly ready to welcome riders to Mogo.
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Just take note Lycra warriors, you have been warned, in this paragraph :D :
“For the Angry Doctor, seven or 800 people would turn up at six in the morning, they would go out riding all day, they were clad in lycra, smelly, and they all got in the cars and left. In terms of the businesses in town, that probably didn’t do much,” he says.
Out of that came the Ready to Ride workshops, where the Council tried to inform the locals that this was different. These weren’t the fly-in-fly-out riders in stretchy pants; they were families and groups who needed places to stay and wanted to buy pizza, beer, and souvenirs.
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Looking forward to these trails, sounds like a decent weekend could be made out of them.
 
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