Rutland City
8/17/2025
Where can you ride in the city? On busy roads, through housing developments, usually. But we were looking for gravel and those are not places that gravel riders prefer. Rutland City does have a moutain biking park, however, so we decided to give that a go.
Pine Hill Park is a local gem for the residents of Rutland City. With 273 acres donated to the town over a hundred years ago, they have developed a beautiful recreational area with trails for dog walking, hiking, and especially mountain biking.
At the entrance to the park, there is a large trail map. There is also a good stock of paper maps to take with you. It is a good idea that we got one, since we referred to it multiple times. It is a complicated network of back and forth trails, and we often had to figure out were we were.
It looked like there was a two track gravel carriage road that went all the way to Rocky Pond, so we started out on that. That went OK, so we then tried to bike around the east and north side of Rocky Pond, near Muddy Pond. Not possible today because it was closed for logging.
We headed out on some double and single track, up to the power lines, and found it was too rocky for our liking in some spots. We ended up crossing over the power lines several times on this ride.
It certainly is a great mountain bike resource located right in the City of Rutland!
Note from Marcia: If you are new to single track mountain biking with terrain elements, you might want to give this ride a miss. Biking well on single track terrain is an acquired skill, and can be dangerous for those of us who are not very good at single track riding. I had to bale out at the end and return to the park on paved roads through local neighborhoods.