Are The Whinlatter Forest MTB Trails For You? - Location Check

We’re excited to release our next location check and this one is a two part extravaganza. We headed to the stunning Lake District in the North West of England to ride some spots we’d never ventured to before.
In part one of this location check we head to the Lake District’s best trail centre, Whinlatter Forest. The centre has been there for a few years now but it’s an exciting place where the trails still offer riders a huge amount and they continue to maintain and invest in the facilities there.
We catch up with Cyclewise owner Craig and are lucky enough to speak with Adrien Jones from Forestry England. We’ll be sharing a separate video in the future after a very insightful discussion here. We can’t thank them enough for their time and warm welcome.
We’d love to hear what you think to this location check and where else we should check out.
If you want to know more then check out the accompanying article on The Contour Collective Website. www.thecontour...
Thanks to the following for making this happen:
Craig at Cyclewise
Adrien from Forestry England
PCJ at Cushcore
Steve from Hotlines
Doug Somerville who was on photo duties all weekend
Lewis Bradleyfor being on video duties
Brought to you by the Contour Collective team:
Christo Gallagher - Bicycle rider, editor and presenter
Chris Hutchens - producer, presenter and bicycle rider
Location and Trail: Whinlatter Forest
Cover photo: Doug Somerville
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[@theoldguyofwhinlatter157]

Hi guys ,like the video my neck of the wood's, at 73 I now ride an Ebike whyte 160 s, it takes me 20 minutes by car to get to whinlatter

[@TheContourCollective]

A great place to ride and within 20 minutes even better!

[@Coolcmsc]

Good advert guys: I’m going there for sure this year, just from watching this, so thanks. I notice you’ve given a shout-out to those who’ve helped you with this one, which is great for me. But that’s a bit unusual for you guys, so thanks this time and I for one would like to see more of that in future! One little point that would help some would be putting in some url links when you mention somebody, a trail or an organisation please? Sometimes a copy and paste doesn’t work that well from TH-cam text, so a Google search is that bit more tricky. I make the effort, but maybe some don’t click through…? Anyway, I wouldn’t be spending all this time typing if I wasn’t stoked about your vids 😊

[@TheContourCollective]

Great feedback! Thanks, really appreciate folk taking the time to respond and enjoy the videos. Let us know what you think of this spot.