MTB'ing Colorado Springs // Captain Jacks and Red Rocks

Colorado Springs has the best mountain biking trails on the Front Range of Colorado. With more than 216 trails covering hundreds (maybe thousands) of miles, at altitude, you have near-limitless options to ride dirt year round.
BABs, Amy and Rachel decided to film one of the more frequently used routes - Red Rocks on the East Side and Captain Jacks with a little Gold Camp climbing in between.
Red Rocks Open Space is a 1,474 acre city park that surprisingly used to be a city dump. It has Moab like white and red rock and lots of gravel and clay dirt too. In this video, we started with the less technical Codell Ridge Trail, Hogback and Lion Trails, then ended on the more technical White Acres, the Section that Only Eats Roadies, Hannah Montana (Miley Cyrus the opposite direction) and Lower Codell.
We took Gold Camp Road to High Drive cut off at the parking lot at top of Gold Camp to Lower Captain Jacks. Obviously from the video you can tell how popular it is with cyclists, hikers and motos. This world famous downhill is a mix of intermediate and technical, and without moisture, becomes a skating rink of deep kitty litter.
As you can see, even November in Colorado Springs can be a stellar time to ride. Overall this ride took us 1:45 hours with breaks and was about 19 miles with 2,050 feet of climbing.

[@mtncritters]

Amazing video, thanks for sharing.

[@BABsOutside]

Thank you too

[@DavePFilms]

I’m happy you found your cell! You ladies look like you just rode around the street. After 19 miles, I would be slurring my words and dying and eating a huge burger.

[@BABsOutside]

Haha! Thanks Dave. We did crush some donuts immediately after! Working on our Ring the Peak fitness 💪.

[@DavePFilms]

@@BABsOutside I had to look up Ring the Peak trail system. 67 miles of 9K up and down! That’s impressive. I know you BABs can do it.

[@BABsOutside]

@@DavePFilms You da best Dave! We did it last year but didn't record. Now that we know what the hell we're doing, we'll make sure to post it. You will have to join on 1 of the 9 segments! You've already done some of it!

[@DavePFilms]

@@BABsOutside You’re going to be one of the few to have a video of Ring the Peak. That will be a huge accomplishment! Heck yea! Let’s go! 🙌🏼 I’ll take some drone shots too.

[@brittbatterton5415]

Sweet route. Do you happen to have the route recorded to share??

[@BABsOutside]

Not quite the route from that day but covers all the trails plus some! strava.app.link/QKx90YZHwjb

[@ChrisLeCroix]

One is true a person can not ever have enough bikes to drive and ride…..You literally passed the vehicle I was in at the beginning of the video right off of 24…… then rolling shanannaghans on Ol gold camp and thru the through the sister tunnels. Never seen that last trail until you met back up to the trail that goes down to the parking lot and you can smell sweat sweat BBQ