Trail Snapshot
Trail(s): A healthy mixture of kick-butt technical, drops, climbs and fast singletrack. Trail surfaces range from rocky, rooted and clear hard packed clay.
Difficulty: Strenuous Intermediate to Advanced with technical descents and climbs
Outdoor Travels Rating:
4.65 out of 5 bikes if that is, you have the proper skill set to enjoy these trails. If you don't you may hate this often challenging loop.
Nuts & Bolts
Location: Reddick, Florida
Directions: From the North, take I-75 south to 318 at exit 368 and head East. Turn south on US 441 at the traffic light. US 441 will curve left, but bear right on CR 25A and continue till you reach 316. Turn left and head East for less than one mile. From the South, take I-75 to SR 326. Head East 0.5 miles, turn North on CR 25A, and continue North for 7 miles. Turn East (right) on 316. A small sign, easily missed if you are traveling too quickly, identifies your destination. Turn right into the narrow entrance and follow it to the parking area.
Facilities: Portapottie, snacks and drinks are also sold at the entrance.
Activities: Mountain biking and more biking!
Admission: $5 per person
Hours: Reddick is open to mountain bikes 9am to 5pm on the weekends. Reddick is closed to public riding on race days.
Maps and Stuff
trails often change, but the loop is easy to navigate
Do you like all the details? Then see who crashed, and what happened on a few select past rides!
Trail Photos
General Photos
Granny's Revenge
Big Gulp
Tripple Dipper
Technical section around mile 8 or 9
Ernie grunts and dabs at Big Gulp
Mountain Biking
Reddick Mountain Bike Park
aka Razorback
Reddick, Florida
Race track like single track with rocky terrain, a couple of tough climbs and a few exciting descents!
by Dana Farnsworth, Outdoor Travels
Overview:
If you are an experienced mountain biker of solid intermediate ability or better, you are going to love this privately run park. The trail runs around an active phosphate mine, which was and is the creator of all the great elevation changes here. During phosphate mining, a lot of big cavernous trenches and holes are created. The dirt removed tends to be pushed around and piled in hill-like mounds. After a period of time, shrubs and trees grow back and a new biker friendly landscape has been created! Due to the current and passed mining, there are actually many elevation changes at Reddick.
Modest leg burning climbs, death defying drops and off-camber twists and turns provide all types of fun and challenges along its current 10-mile loop. I say "current 10-mile loop" because the trails often change due to the active mining operation previously mentioned. You won't be riding through a construction zone though, as the mining operation is not part of the trail system. It does however have right-of-way on this parcel of shared land which no doubt, creates a challenge to Reddicks' trail designers. At any given repeat visit, one can find all sorts of new reroutes and trail sections due to intrusions from the mining company. For every good thing lost, there is often something as great created.
Reddick can best be summed up as a ride that mixes flat out fast hard-packed single track with tight technical sections sporting all sorts of roots and rocks with an added feature of a few exhilarating descents and leg burning climbs. Three concentric loop trails are present at Reddick. A beginner's loop also known as the kid's loop (around 1 mile in length), short loop (around 5 miles) and the long loop (up to 9-10+ miles). The beginner's loop is a great trail for the confident beginner, it can also be a screaming fast warm-up for the swift and experienced. The short loop offers up a few solid intermediate thrills along with nice long stretches of fast, flat and winding singletrack. The long loop takes the features of the short loop and adds in more technical sections and larger drops more suited for the experienced and confident rider.
Overall, the trails are certainly for the solid intermediate level rider or above. Mile markers and excellent trail signage are present, making it a very easy place to navigate. Maps, which are never up to date are thankfully not needed here as traffic flows in one circular loop direction, making it next to impossible to get lost.
Featured log
03/20/04: A literal buffet of single track terrain.
by Christopher Burk
Images of twisted aluminum, rubber and body parts kept flashing through my mind. Stopping at the edge and looking down may not have been the best idea after all. Although the first part of the drop looked rather benign, I could swear the last part was close to a 60-degree angle. If I wipe out here it could really hurt or I could be seriously injured. Stopping only gave me more time to think about more terrible things that could happen if I rode it.
Those were the thoughts running through my head as I stood at the top of the first significant drop on Granny’s Revenge. Sure, I rode areas of Alafia that were just as steep, if not steeper without issue, but because this drop was early in the ride and I was still warming up, real concerns started creeping into my head. No, I didn’t ride the drop, but that was the only section I didn’t attempt at Reddick.
My overall opinion of Reddick can be summed up in one word: “Smorgasbord.” Reddick offers enough different challenges and terrain that I was never bored or discouraged. Sure, I wore the “skirt” on the first big drop, but I made up for it by riding all the other ones, or at least attempted them. Reddick’s menu of trail characteristics didn’t stop there either. Along the way I got to work on my technical skills through the courtesy of several sections of rocks and roots, improve my cornering ability while zigzagging through the pines as fast as I could. Reddick even tried to make me feel at home by offering a couple of leg-burning, lung-busting long climbs.
Probably the only drawback I had during my ride was my conditioning. March weather in West Virginia is iffy at best so this was about my first time to be on a bike in past four months. In fact, Reddick brought my total 2004 rides up to five, and three of those rides had been in the previous two days. That’s what made Reddick such an enjoyable ride. I may not have been in exceptional shape, but I still had fun riding.
Oh, and one little heads up. Towards the end of the full loop, after a series of large drops and climbs the trail flattens out for a while. Don’t relax too much. There is one more small but steep hill. It’s a fairly easy climb if you know it’s coming and you have enough speed. Otherwise, it’s a real killer. Just thought you might want to know.
