[Closed] Swinley Forest

Will Swinley ever create a map showing this or signposted directions to the trails?

Probably not, its a random collection of local trails rather than a trail center, which is why it gets away with big gap jumps/drops in the same area as XC trails.

Easiest way to get to the labrynth is to go through the Go-Ape gate in the car park, ride to the end, turn right onto the really wide fire road, keep going untill you get to the labrynth (its about 3 climbs/decents, the last is called the wall and barely climbable).

Thanks for the advice bud

Loving getting back into riding. Ill give it a shot next time finding the runs! 🙂

a bit or a work in progress so it hasn't got all the tracks but it's well on the way;

www.rideswinley.com

Try using this map, it might help!

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.3759&lon=-0.7443&zoom=14&layers=0B00FTF

Best way to find some kind of route is probably to look for the trails in this order.

Ride out of the car part under go-ape, when you get to the end turn right up the really wide fire road, at the top of the first hill look for a singletrack trail going right into the trees, there'll be a load of tyre tracks going into it and it looks really narrow.

At the end of this you climb a small hill and at the top opposite accross the fireroad there are 2 trails into the trees, the left one is the whole 9 yards, the right is watsons wander.

The Seagull is at the end of watsons wander, at the end of seagull youre not far from stickler, which feeds into tank traps, which ends near the jump gulley, up from the jump gulley there are loads of trails heading into the "advanced mountain bike area" which is worth exploring, the labrynth is in the far corner of this. Thats most of the built trails described.

I've been deliberately vague as directions are worthless and the best bet is to go when its busy and tag allong with people heading in the right direction.

usefull stuff there, thanks

as wisepranker says

open street map

keep going untill you get to the labrynth (its about 3 climbs/decents, the last is called the wall and barely climbable).

is that really 'the wall' at the end of that long fire road?
surely not?, I got up it on my single speed on monday.

back to the OP, I too would love small signs around the forest as i can only find 3 or 4 of the trails on a good day. I even take a laminated map over and still manage to get lost!

s that really 'the wall' at the end of that long fire road?

Probably not.
You climb the one after the jump gulley, go allong the top bit, down alittle bit (fire road bears left a bit) then theres the wall. I's not so much the steepness, it's the looseness, it's climeable, but appart from "you've got to be kidding" which is the far side of the wall probably makes up the worst of the fireroad climbs in swinley.