Below are places to go in North East Lancashire and West Yorkshire for safe off road MTB riding.

Mountain Biking in Lancashire's Forest of Bowland and Pennine Hills.

Lancashire county Council have an excellent summary document in pdf format Mountain Biking in Lancashire's Forest of Bowland and Pennine Hills. It contains lots of good information about Mountain Biking.

Gisburn Forest

Gisburn Forest - has lots of mountain bike trails from the easy wide tracks to harder single track routed. Managed by the Forestry Commission, it has a good car park area, is well signposted in the park area, excellent scenery and a place to ride for all ages and ability.

You can down load the Forestry Commission leaflet for Gisburn Forest here, its a pdf document.

Mary Townley Loop

This is a trail around the Burnley area, very popular with mountain bikers. Details are in the LCC leafter above.