Todd Murray's and MORC's mountain biking pages (older)

Mountain Bike Trails in Minneapolis-St. Paul is an older set of reviews by Todd Murray, who I know of from the Minnesota Inline Skate Club. It's not been revised for some time, but it mentions some trails very few people know of (such as the scattered trails around Minnehaha park).

MORC has the most current trail descriptions. IT looks like a Google Maps layer so I hope there's a way to add it to my Google maps,

Ramsey County (Saint Paul) Bike Trails map

Ramsey County Parks (includes Saint Paul, MN) page now includes a link to a Ramsey county bike trails map. Of course it's a poor cousin to the Hennepin/Minneapolis trail system.

There's also a cross-country trail map and locations page.

Mountain biking is only allowed in Battle Creek regional park. I think the easiest entrance to that system is from Winthrop Street, south of Upper Afton road and North of Lower Afton road. There are also two single track entrances on Point Douglas Road though they may be tricky to find.

MSP bicycle trails - now Google

Minneapolis St Paul bicycle maps: Google and More. Great news. Now we need a GeoWiki layer that notes which bicycle trails are good for inline skating.

MOCA Trails - Theodore Wirth park

Trailhead poster

Cyclopath.org: A GeoWiki for the Twin Cities metro area

Cyclopath is a Twin Cities Metro area bicycle map and "GeoWiki". It's operated by the University of Minnesota's GroupLens Research group. An associated Wiki provides news and documentation...

Welcome to Cyclopath, the geowiki for Twin Cities bicyclists. You can use Cyclopath to find routes and share information with other cyclists.Nobody knows where you can go, and what you will find when you get there, better than you, the bicycling community. Cyclopath enables bicyclists to harness this collective knowledge and build a comprehensive, up-to-date information resource by and for the community

This is what I'd thought long ago I might do with msptrails.org, but it's always been a future project.

This looks great! I wonder if they'd want the msptrails.org domain name (for free of course).

South Saint Paul Trail

I skated the South Saint Paul Regional Trail on 7/16 with the Minnesota Inline Skate Club (Google Map). The trail surface is broken up beneath the 494 bridge, and a bit south of the old railway bridge I was told it terminated (I didn't get that to that part). 

Introduction to MSP Trails

MSP Trails is currently an experiment. It may be launched or it may simply inspire some other entity to do a better job. I tend to favor the latter, since it takes drive and marketing to make something like this work and I've other obligations.

The goal of MSP Trails, including this blog and related items such as Google Maps, Google Calendar and perhaps (one day) a Wiki is to provide a single, organizationally neutral, edited, ad-free, spam-free, source for news and information on bicycle and inline stating trails in the Twin Cities Metro area.

If this particular example of MSP Trails is launched, I'd be looking for volunteers to post news on trails and work on updating Google's shared map layers, including adding relevant photographs.

I (John Faughnan, really) currently own the domain name msptrails.org and this blog, but I'd be happy to turn it over to the appropriate organization if one exists. It will only work if it's part of an emergent collaborative effort. I cannot imaging making any money from this in any way, I have other things I need to be doing.