Dragons Back MTB Trail
Mountain Biking · Wales
500
XP
about 3 h 45 min riding
610 m
310 m
10 m
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Heights: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.
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Some very steep ground — marked on the map.
Climb
797 m
Drop
810 m
Highest
407 m
Lowest
76 m
Which way round
Anticlockwise: Easy first 6.4 km, climbs 12% for 620 m midway, comes down 16% for 400 m midway.
Clockwise: Climbs 16% for 400 m midway, comes down 12% for 620 m midway.
A loop climbs and descends the same ground either way round. Waymarked trails are signed one way — follow the signs on the ground.
Main descent: km 16.7–21.5, from 401 m to 84 m.
How the 30.1 km splits
Flat
9.5 km
Climbing
9.2 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
1.1 km
Descending
9.3 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.6 km
Very steep descending (15%+)
0.4 km
Link it with other walks
Beast MTB Trail
Shares 25.6 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 2.6, 3.5…35 km
MBR Mtb Trail
Starts here too · Shares 9.8 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 2.6, 20.1…17.7 km
Cyflym Coch Mtb trail
Shares 6.9 km of path · meets at km 0.1, 0.3, 0.4…12.4 km
Temtiwr MTB trail
Starts here too · Shares 6.6 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 23.2, 24.38.9 km
Half Marathon
Starts here too · Shares 5.6 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 2.6, 5.5…22.2 km
Gold Rush Running trail
Starts here too · Shares 4.4 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 2.4, 3.7…13.5 km
Volcano trail
Shares 3.5 km of path · meets at km 2.6, 10.1, 10.7…10.2 km
Tramper Ferndale Trail
Starts here too · Shares 2.9 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 24.210.7 km
Sustrans route 8
Shares 2.1 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 0.1, 2.4…13.7 km
Miinortaur Mtb Trail
Starts here too · Shares 1.7 km of path · meets at km 0.1, 0.8, 1.0…12.9 km