For the past five years I have been going back and forth to Roosevelt/Vernal, UT for work. I work as a builder in a home building company. We have been building a lot of stuff in the Roosevelt and Vernal area which is the area where the oil boom is. So we get quite a bit of business there. I have been wondering how the mountain biking is in the area. I decided to take my parents and spend a weekend there.
In fact, that weekend was my birthday so I wanted to go for a birthday ride. I went to the McCoy Flats Trail System.
The trails were great and they are similar to the St. George trails but has way cooler weather, so it's perfect for the summer rides if you want some desert riding. I actually enjoyed it better than St. George because of less people and the environment. I ran into a few people and it was on a Sunday morning and very early but not too much. I had so much fun and the trails had so much rolling hills and singletrack. They were especially fast. There were also a quite of few technical riding in a few areas that had slickrock and boulders. I did Retail Sale and Milk and Cookies. After about 15 miles, I wanted to do more but had to get back. Next time, I will go alone and go camping at the primitive camping spots at the trail head, then do more riding. There's like 35 miles worth of trails in the trail system.
The day before I went riding, my parents and I checked around to see some dinosaur bones. We went to the museum in Vernal and the quarry in Dinosaur National Monument. We felt bad there were no kids with us.
We drove around everywhere, we even went to Dinosaur, Colorado. A place where a kid dreams to live(because of the name), but the town was a dump. We drove quite a ways around Dinosaur National Monument. It was cool.
There's the mammoth from Ice Age movie. So awesome!
More pictures of the trails.
