All of the normal wet spots at Allaire are....wet. Chris gave a solid report a few posts back.
The best route is something like this, which you could ride in the rain and not hurt much: south exit from the lot and then hard right toward the model plane field. Dont go along hospital road, that trail is beat up. You can ride the "airport loop" from here, just dont go down toward the river when you are up above the pump house. Then back out to the paved road and make a right, hit the end and make another right, passing the pit on your left. Continue straight over the whoops to the main fire road. From here you can ride about any trail you come across.
Hit the glass trail, which is the white marked trail on your right. It ends back at the paved road. Go back to the fire road, pass the glass trail entrance, and bang a left onto serpentine. Make a right at the bottom of that, then a left at the next intersection, then the first right. This will take you toward "IMBA". Make a left up the little climb that goes to the power lines to add some more climbing miles, then come back down to IMBA. At the bottom of IMBA continue straight, until you are right along the fisherman's road. Then cross over and hit the hog bog. All of the bog loops are fine. After finished in there, instead of heading up the switchbacks, take the old sand doubletrack to the top. (Which is past the switchback entrance, basicly the end of the fisherman's road) Once at the top you are back on the main fire road, and can head over to the other side of the park where you started, hitting trails that eventually take you over near the easy street intersection. From there go across the street and ride everything except the trail along the river. There are a lot of entrances to the campsite side of the park, any of them will get you to well drained trails.
I would say you can put together a 10-12 mile ride that hits little to no mud without riding anything twice. The route i mentioned would be mostly mud free even if ridden in the rain. More miles obviously if you put together some loops that hit certain trails a few times.
Have fun and feel free to hit one of the Allaire TM days in the spring to fix the wet spots that have been taking a beating this fall, and will take another beating in the spring.
The best route is something like this, which you could ride in the rain and not hurt much: south exit from the lot and then hard right toward the model plane field. Dont go along hospital road, that trail is beat up. You can ride the "airport loop" from here, just dont go down toward the river when you are up above the pump house. Then back out to the paved road and make a right, hit the end and make another right, passing the pit on your left. Continue straight over the whoops to the main fire road. From here you can ride about any trail you come across.
Hit the glass trail, which is the white marked trail on your right. It ends back at the paved road. Go back to the fire road, pass the glass trail entrance, and bang a left onto serpentine. Make a right at the bottom of that, then a left at the next intersection, then the first right. This will take you toward "IMBA". Make a left up the little climb that goes to the power lines to add some more climbing miles, then come back down to IMBA. At the bottom of IMBA continue straight, until you are right along the fisherman's road. Then cross over and hit the hog bog. All of the bog loops are fine. After finished in there, instead of heading up the switchbacks, take the old sand doubletrack to the top. (Which is past the switchback entrance, basicly the end of the fisherman's road) Once at the top you are back on the main fire road, and can head over to the other side of the park where you started, hitting trails that eventually take you over near the easy street intersection. From there go across the street and ride everything except the trail along the river. There are a lot of entrances to the campsite side of the park, any of them will get you to well drained trails.
I would say you can put together a 10-12 mile ride that hits little to no mud without riding anything twice. The route i mentioned would be mostly mud free even if ridden in the rain. More miles obviously if you put together some loops that hit certain trails a few times.
Have fun and feel free to hit one of the Allaire TM days in the spring to fix the wet spots that have been taking a beating this fall, and will take another beating in the spring.
