After hiking and riding the glorious and challenging trails of Connecticut and New York for a season, life has moved my family to the less mountainous state of Texas. Cutting my teeth on some of Connecticut’s more challenging trails such as Indian Ledge Park (Trumbull, CT), Collis P Huntington State Park (Bethel, CT), Wadsworth State Park (Middletown, CT), and Wilton Town Forest (Wilton, CT) was a great way to re-expose myself to the joy of mountain biking after about 20 years of leaving the sport behind in my teens.

While those trails could be extremely grueling, especially for someone who started extremely out of shape, I feel like it was somewhat of a baptism by fire; not to mention all the gnarl, up hill climbs, and rock gardens. Now that I’ve moved down to Texas, I’m finding hardly none of those challenges, however, what I used to have a love/hate relationship and have been sorely missing since I’ve moved, has been replaced with longer distance riding, switchback galore, and groomed trails with wooden features and jump kickers.

I’m not quite at the level where I’d feel comfortable hitting the jumps down here, as I struggled enough with the rollers and drops up North, but I’ve found a great bike park that’s roughly 10 minutes from me that has a mixture of everything. NW Community Park (Frisco, TX) has become my local stomping grounds. I plan on hitting up the Lake Lewisville trail system with some hiking and to scope it out for riding lines. Roughly a month into living in Texas, while missing the elevation changes and extreme nature of some of the more challenging trails in Connecticut, I’m looking forward to taking a step back and working on my fundamentals through a more measured progression down here in Texas.

If anyone has any recommended trails in the DFW area – please let me know. Also, I’m looking for others to ride with, so if you don’t mind a trailer behind you, reach out so we can get something together.

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