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I have enjoyed following this forum. I live in Minnesota, about an hour or so north of the Twin Cities. As much as I do not like the high taxes and a longer winter there is a good amount of moto tracks and MTB trails to pick from. I have considered moving because of some of these drawbacks but have not pulled the plug. For moto I have BCMX, Berm Benders, Motocity, Kingston, Little Falls, Gransturg, Staples, BP73 Moto Ranch all either within an hour to a little over an hour from me. There is also Spring Creek, Meadow Valley...

Curious, what's the difference between Socal prep and Norcal? I've never been up there. Seems like scene there is holding up well which is good to see. I thought the track prep down here was as good as it gets.

And another for Grand Junction. Riding is titties there

1st let me say thank you for being a traveling nurse. That is a very challenging job. For mountain biking the Charlotte US Whitewater training center has a good mountain bike area plus Rock Hill outdoor center has a mountain bike are plus an amazing BMX stadium. https://www.sctrails.net/trails/trail/rock-hill-outdoor-center-mountain…

Some of these have already been mentioned but Sacramento area / Auburn for sure, Grand Junction / Moab region, depending on track vs trail preference Portland might not be a bad option with Tillamook having endless singletrack plus easy trips to eastern Oregon for more riding. I am not familiar with the east coast but know North Carolina has a vibrant moto scene and a ton of MTB too

Believe it or not, but living in the greater Chicagoland area has good access to MX tracks if you're willing to drive 45 mins - 2 hours. If you can brave the long winters and politics (sorry), you'll appreciate the job market of a major metro, good food, and, IMO, some of the best dirt in the country to ride/race on. Illinois - Joliet MX, Byron Motorsports Park, Sunset Ridge MX, Mt Carroll MX, Muddy Waters MX, all within 2 hours and in state. Further drive south you have Lincoln Trail MX. Indoor Tracks too called Megatrax and B-52 (I...

My 2 cents Aspen or Crested Butte for trail riding... Tracks are a little few and far between unless you know they guys with private tracks.

Those are both places with essentially a 3 month riding season

We have 6 months of high country single track in both spots. Obviously some years are longer riding season with a shit snow pack and some years we are not getting over Star pass until Mid July with a big snow year. I have lived here for 18 years riding single track in the area and CB.

Hendersonville NC/Greenville SC 221 MX, Catheys Creek MX, The Cut, Strawberry Hill, Revolution MX, Next LVL 101, Travelers Rest MX, My Backyard Track, Hannah Creek , Top Gun MX- All of these 30-90Mins away. From Hendersonville you can drive I-26 for 90 mins to Johnson City, TN and ride Muddy Creek MX too. Trails-Enoree and Brown Mtn just down the road a short way. Weyehutta in Sylva has great trails too. If you ride MTB, pisgah forest , Dupont , Ride Kanuga and Ride Rock Creek are all huge. Actually i feel this is the main hub for MTB in...

Yep, prep at sac area tracks blows away the prep at most socal tracks. Lots open at least one weekday as well.

KS, OK, MO In KS you have Bar2Bar (awesome sand track), jeeps, sand track in manhattan, school creek orv at Milford for single track and hill climbs and a hare scramble every year, sand trails down near great bend. In OK there is Ponca, Jandebeurs and others, + little Sahara sand dunes. In MO you have adrenaline, grain valley, kingsville, section 8 and roc solid are smaller practice type tracks. Drive up to Lincoln NE there’s a track there as well. Colorado is also 6.5 hours for a small vacation to thunder valley.

Agreed^^^^ And most of those tracks have full prep a couple days during the week. I live in Auburn, and have been getting more into off-road as of late. Foresthill, Georgetown, PIPI, Stonyford, Chalk Bluff, just to mention a few. Also have excellent medical facilities to choose from within 15 minutes.

yoooo - Dutch is an hour within GR too haha Plus, bump up the time another hour & we have Red Bud & Baja on that list.

As crazy as it sounds Tulsa, OK is in a pretty good spot. We have about 10 tracks within an hour or 2. I know there are trails also but that's not my thing. Then Mtn bike stuff you can be in NWAR in an hour a half for that. Cost of living is low also

Completely different environment/dirt past a certain elevation. There’s more scenic higher elevation stuff if you head further west. I’ve had this trail on my bucket list for awhile but the window to ride it is very small with the inclement weather up there. Starts in the trees and you end up at around 12k on these super exposed mountains.

Me and my wife went on vacation in Denver and rented bikes for two days and rode Rampart, that place was amazing the lower elevation stuff was better dirt. Here in NC/SC we have no public land for motos its all private except for OHV areas which are a fraction of the size of Rampart. But when the riding here in NC/SC is good it really cant be beat, the dirt and tight trees in some areas is just unbeatable IMO.

Yeah Northwest Indiana was the best place I ever lived for riding. (strictly tracks, not sure on off road stuff) A lot of tracks and great dirt. Winters suck though. It's been about 8 years since I was living there, so not sure if some aren't open as much as they used to be.