No matter where you live in the state of Utah, in a half hour you can probably get to a pretty decent mountain biking trail.

MOAB, Utah — As an avid mountain biker in the upper Midwest, I’ve covered quite a few miles on the many wonderful trails of Minnesota and Wisconsin.

In Utah, you stop. Around Moab, mountain bikers have their own trails, with banked curves, roller-coaster hills and miles of something called slick rock. Not sure about slick rock?

“Considered” is the operative word. Unlike many trails with descriptions that tend to overestimate their difficulty, mountain biking trails in the Moab area can be tougher than advertised.

Moab, Utah is fascinating for mountain bikers. The gritty trails, oceans of sandstone and the exceptional physiography make for some of the most astonishing riding experiences on earth. In short ...

Mecca status is what Fruita and Moab have achieved. Fittingly, the dueling mountain biking destinations are linked by the 142-mile Kokopelli’s Trail, which stretches all the way from Loma to Moab.

Moab, Utah, and Fruita, Colorado, are some of the West’s great mountain bike meccas, so it’s no surprise that the backcountry route that connects them—the Kokopelli Trail—is a stunner, too.

Last week my family and I did that classic road trip loop of National Parks in Utah and Arizona. One of our first stops was Moab. When I was first getting into mountain biking in the the 1990s, near ...

This is the eighth in a series of stories exploring southeastern Utah. For unpolished pedal pushers like me, the mountain biking trails near Moab, Utah, seemed a bit daunting. The sheer variety ...

These days, bike shops, gear shops and guiding outfits peddling outdoor adventures of all flavors line Main Street, and mountain bikers line the hundreds of miles of trail in the Moab area.