Canonteign trails are all (tolerated by the FC) cheeky – not marked, but you’ll find them. Park in the opening of the main fire road onto the lane (presuming you’re coming up from the Teign Valley it’s basically the first gateway on the left). Then pedal up the road and go into the next gateway on the left and up the track that goes straight up (but gently) the hill. The bulk of the trails start from the top of the hill on that track – one off to the left of the track, and about 5 over the bank on the right hand side. All those trails end on the main fire road. There used to be 2 follow ons over the fire road, but one has been fenced off by the FC. There’s more stuff further round the same hill (‘Rediscovered’ on Strava – the couple of trails here are steeper, but not scary) and a nice mellow trail in the trees on the right as you pedal up the track to the start of the main trails. There’s more up there too, notably the slip-fest that comes through the birch trees ending near the big fire-road switchback, and also a load of very little used stuff further along the main fireroad. Definitely worth an explore, and pretty much any of the trails are happily doable on trail bikes. The majority of the trails stand up well to the rain too – drains super fast.
