Lift Access Bike Parks
Experience the gift of gravity
From extreme gravity to flowy single-track, BC’s mountain bike parks offer mountain biking for everyone!
Beautiful British Columbia
Spectacular coastal rain forests, soaring high alpine peaks and arid interior mountains provide the most incredible mountain biking experiences in the world. With North America’s highest concentration of lift-access riding, British is the destination of choice.
- Whistler Mountain Bike Park
- Sun Peaks Bike Park
- Fernie Alpine Bike Park
- SilverStar Bike Park
- Big White Bike Park
- Kicking Horse Mountain Bike Park
Whistler Mountain Bike Park
No matter how you like to get down hill, you’ll find it here. With more than 4,926 vertical feet of lift-serviced, gravity-fed, adrenaline-fueled downhill trails.
Number of Trails: 106
Total Kilometres: 82 km
Highest Elevation: 2,137 m
Sun Peaks Bike Park
The Sun Peaks Bike Park boasts a huge and diverse trail network ranging from technical DH and flowing machine-made freeride trails, to incredible and scenic alpine cross country.
Number of Trails: 50
Total Kilometres: 63 km
Highest Elevation: 2,009 m
Fernie Alpine Bike Park 
Fernie Alpine Resort has one of the largest lift-accessed trail networks in Western Canada. Combined with its extensive web of cross-country trails it’s easy to see why Fernie is the perfect mountain biking destination.
Number of Trails: 46
Total Kilometres: 44 km
Highest Elevation: 1,733 m
SilverStar Bike Park
SilverStar Bike Park is steeped in mountain bike history and some of the best trails you’ll find anywhere. Known for our extremely well maintained and built fast flowy trails.
Number of Trails: 58
Total Kilometres: 116 km
Highest Elevation: 1,889 m
Big White Bike Park
BC’s newest bike park is located just 45 minutes outside of Kelowna, riders can experience the adrenaline packed thrill of gravity fed downhill mountain biking along with summer activities, festivals and events for the whole family.
Number of Trails: 23
Total Kilometres: 22 km
Highest Elevation: 2,152 m
Kicking Horse Mountain Bike Park
People don’t come to Kicking Horse Mountain Resort to ride the same old thing. They come for the differences, and we have plenty. What this means is over 3,700 feet of variety!
Number of Trails: 44
Total Kilometres: 34 km
Highest Elevation: 2,330 m
Inspirational Trips
The Other Shore: An Insider’s Guide to Riding the Sunshine Coast
This trip is for anyone who has biked in the Sea to Sky a few times and is looking for some new ride ideas. Or for someone who lives in Vancouver and rides the Shore lots, but doesn’t have a huge interest in the bike park or typically venture much past Squamish on the weekends. If this sounds like you, then hopefully you will find something inspiring in the routes and photos below.
Sun Peaks Pedal Fest 2017
It happened almost like clockwork. The shadows grew long as the light softened, a cool breeze bloomed from between the trees, and we gathered at Sun Peaks Resort to celebrate the changing of the seasons during Peaks Pedal Fest this Labour Day Weekend.
2017 BC Cup #2 and BC DH Championships at Sun Peaks Resort
The BC DH Championships and second stop on the BC Cup circuit roared through Sun Peaks Resort this past weekend, bringing with it some of Canada’s fastest riders. With forest fires ablaze throughout the northwest, fortune smiled over the resort on race day with a...
RULES OF THE ROAD; Trail Tripping Through British Columbia’s Kootenay Mountains
One of the oldest saloons in British Columbia and by far the oldest in Rossland, the name comes from a steam-powered helicopter plane constructed by Lou Gagnon, an ambitious Gold Rush-era inventor. Built of iron, wood, brass, canvas and piano wire, Gagnon imagined the “Flying Steamshovel” would carry ore down from the steep slopes of nearby Red Mountain. It didn’t. The craft first took flight in February of 1902, leaving the ground and wobbling a few stories skyward before crashing near the very spot we’re currently putting back burgers and beers.