As part of our retro-ventures to former mountain bike riding areas, we drove to Bartlett Village to explore roads and trails we rode back in the '90s. Our first stop was the Bartlett Experimental Forest gravel roads. If we had time and energy after, we’d visit trails on the opposite side of Bear Notch Road.
But, after 12 miles of riding, we decided the roads were enough. We left the trails for another day.
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