Riding and Rating a Downhill MTB Park - Mountain Creek in New Jersey
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- Today, we ride Mountain Creek Bike Park in New Jersey and give them a rating. They didn't know I was coming, and are probably pissed about the aerial shot. They may be even more pissed about my opinion on the food and rentals-time will tell! In any case, I had a blast there, so check them out: www.mountaincreek.com/bike-park
A bike park is a place where you’ll most certainly be spending money. You use gas to get there, probably pay for tolls and parking, and maybe even rent a bike. At a very least you’ll be buying lift tickets. To ensure you’re getting your money’s worth, you can read reviews on a park before visiting, and often times this is effective. So starting today, I’ll make it a point to review the bike parks I visit so you can see what you’re getting and hear my opinion on them. I’ll use the lift tickets for some kind of mural in the hack shack.
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The first lift ticket will be from Mountain Creek Bike Park in New Jersey.
If you didn’t know New Jersey even had mountains, you wouldn’t be alone. But the Northern part of the state, which borders on New York and Pennsylvania, is surprisingly rugged. At Mountain Creek, they use every inch of precious elevation for downhill mountain bike trails. The best part? It’s only $10.
Correction, it’s $45, but that’s still a good deal only an hour from New York City. Everything out there is crazy expensive, and this wasn’t. During my day at mountain creek I took between 10 and 15 runs, enough to get a good feel for the park. Let’s start with a summary of my day and then get to the review.
The bike I brought to mountain creek didn’t have a lot of travel; 150mill in the front and 130 in the rear. Indeed trail bikes were a pretty common sight at Mountain Creek, and I found that most of the park could be conquered on one without a problem.
Conditions during my visit were dry. So dry that I did drift off the trail once into a drainage ditch. Plus one for drainage.
During my first two runs, I did notice plenty of variety at the park, from wallrides, to tech, to North Shore features, to nice sized drops.
On the way down I noticed this one-I think they called it the Patio drop? Anyway it’s great for a beginner looking to do their first big drop, because it’s off a super smooth surface on to a real wide landing. Since it’s at the bottom where many trails converge, I hit it on almost every run.
It was mid week, so most of the riders were kids, or college aged. Obviously my cover was blown pretty early on, but that gave me a chance to follow some regulars around the park.
I don’t know how old this kid was, but I know he was older than 6 and probably younger than 13. He could shred.
In summary, it was a good fun day.
With that, let’s move on to the ratings. I’ll rate the park in 10 categories from 0 to 10, then add them together. A rating of 0 means something isn’t applicable. For instance if a place doesn’t have rentals then the rental rating is 0. 1 would be real bad, and 5 would be average. 10 means it’s the best in the world, and I don’t think we’ll be seeing that very often.
Categories:
Lift ticket price
Ease of access
The Lift Itself
Rentals
Trail quality
Trail variety
Food
Scenery
Fun Factor
Will I return?
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Whatever happened to this series? You should definitely bring it back Seth!!
Bike parks are both far and expensive
He probably doesn't have much time or money to do that.
TyrannoKoenigsegg He litteraly rides bikes for a living
TyrannoKoenigsegg u do know that he flew to certain places just to ride bikes
I would love to see more reviews of Parks
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1:14 "The bike I brought didnt have a lot of travel"
**Cries in 100 mm hardtail**
That's one of the best comments I've ever seen
I had a 90mm travel hardtail
@@lachlanfilms2269 I had the 100mm hardtail, I just got a 120, 120 full suspension and i'm so happy
@@lachlanfilms2269 i have a 50 mm fork get recked walmart gang all the wayyyyyyy
I have a 100mm hardtail and it works for me
"IT'S THE BEST TRAILS EVER OMG.i give it a 6"
-seth
It's nice to see someone using a */10 scale where they actually use the whole range. Most of the time you see a 5/10 as being terrible. 5/10 is average by definition.
@@RickThatcher I think a lot of people (myself included) struggle a bit with rating systems out of 10 just from years of being pressured in academic grading, where all passing grades sit above 60%, "average" is considered lackluster or barely acceptable, etc. Focusing all your effort on the top 10-20% can give you a warped sense of scale.
It’s a rock garden
We grow rocks in New Jersey
YESS
Illuminati 121 same here in PA. Baby heads to boulders.
New Jersey is a rock tbh
Who doesn’t
and tomatos
Seth, you ought to start your own line of power bars and trail mixes called "Seth's Bike Snacks."
Dilly Dilly to that
Seth's Bite Snacks XD !!!
Dilly Dilly
JaBron Junklove clever name man noice
YES!!!!!!!
+1 vote for air conditioned gondolas with beer taps! Bet we see one by next season... also.... that beat to hell top cap... you know Seth's been out riding his bike this season!!
i live in vernon nj in the town of the bike park
Make that +2
+3
YOUR DA. YE LIL RA
R u the real the single track sampler
Anyone here in 2019 waiting for those other park reviews??
2020 for me
2020 for me also
A
2020
2022 for me
Dear Seth
After 17 years I finally learned how to ride a bike, I decided to do this after seeing your videos. Thank you so much , I love riding now and I try to do it everyday.
I know this is an old comment but how is your biking going?
That place looks pretty cool actually, some cool trail features and everything!
+Jordan Boostmaster yeah it was super fun!
Seth's Bike Hacks this is my fourth or fifth time watching this it's very good video. In the future can you go to milstone where I live in Vermont or do another bike check
mt bachelor bike park is a must visit
Jordan Boostmaster can you rent bikes in every bike park?
They have new bikes that are Scott gambler 730’s
Im surprised no one has asked this yet, but what would you have given whistler?
Eli Carter probably not
Best he can do is a 4
That I would give it a 75 the lift lines are massive the prices are not great and the breaking bumps are bad.but there’s great trails and it’s close to Vancouver
11 for everything
“Something for everybody” gives it a 6
I mean, 6 is above average. it's not a bad score at all in this type of grading system.
“The bike I brought didn’t have a lot of travel” (150)
Me sitting on the couch thinking my old bike had 50mm and my new one has 100mm
I have been waiting for one of you guys to do this kind of video. Awesome man. I really love this.
I would like to see you expand this kind of review beyond bike parks to any kind of localized trail system or destination. It would also be cool to add what your favorite trail/run was at that location.
This is what all MTB riding videos should be. This content is as good as it gets.
8:57 " I almost hit a squril" the other day my friend was riding his bike and a squirrel ran out in front of him and got stuck in his chain and he crashed his bike
Logan Cowdrey That's the saddest thing I've heard all day. Poor squirrel
Greet themind yep
Dang, a literal shred! Poor squirrel.
Yikes
Stuck I'm the chain? That seems SOOOO unlikely
I’ll give em......
AN ABOVE AVERAGE 6
Thumbs up Seth on the new grading system. I'm all the time searching for good videos of places to travel to. This is a big help! I will be hiting my first bike park in Tahoe at the end of this month at northstar
I was gonna say $10! No Way it's $45! HAHAHA Glad you liked it man. It's right in my backyard and I visit there often :-)
Regular Guy Mountain Biking I’m a 14 y/o and I’m super bad at mountain biking and I live like 25 minutes from this, do you think there are any trails that would justify me dragging my family (who doesn’t mountain bike) to the park
There is greenhorn and some other backroad green trails
Regular Guy Mountain Biking 🚵♀️
@@evangorski7992 your family can go to the water park
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"I don't know how old this kid was but I know he was older than 6" 😂😂😂
** PROBABLY older than six **
This series sounds great! Can't wait for more.
This is a freaking awesome video series! I'm really liking forward to seeing your reviews. I love bike parks!
I love the new park rating system. What a great way to compare parks in a semi-objective way. Park "restaurants" should be used for food in emergencies only. Their primary purpose is to serve delicious cold beers. I usually grab a sammich on the way into the park. It's safer, cheaper, and most importantly faster so you can get back on the bike and shred!
Jacob Zimmerman yeah that makes sense. I hear the parks with good food and lifts spend so much money on those two things that all they can afford is fireroad. Seth I think you need to go back to the drawing board to address this very obvious flaw.
I beg to differ. While the food at my local, (Snow Summit in Big Bear, CA) is overpriced, it's been really good every time I've been.
yup yup yup, those tony-two-toothed hill billies sure do make some good food ;-) ...
Jacob Zimmerman Well you saw the other ratings, it would be destroyed
Jordan Byron here in the UK (llandegla bike park) they cook very nice meals, they have good chefs too.
Cool new idea. You should do videos like top 10 best trails I've ridden or my top 10 favorite bikes.
No, please no Top10s!
Love your channel. I have been watching for years and learned a lot from your tutorials
Seth, keep up the great vidoes I love them all I finally got a entry-level hardtail after riding the hell out of Walmart bikes you motivated me to bike and ride harder now thanks to you I got my self a good bike.
I hope to see you ride downhill using hardtail
venise emmanuel santos why not,???
venise emmanuel santos i ride downhill here with my GT chucker fourcross bike on occasions if my other bike is being serviced. It hurts but its a lot of fun
He should, he has an Orange P7!
Double crown hardtail
Jadon Ingalls 😂😂 it will probably feel like using a jack hammer
I know that everyone has a bike park they'd like you to visit, but Highalnd park in New Hampshire has some of the best stuff out there, worth a visit for suuure!
Super cool Idea, the north east has some really sweet mountains, you should check Thunder Mountain out, it's a trail bike heaven.
When you compare the Mountain Creek lifts to a lot of other places, they really aren't that bad, they're quick loading, detachable, and in my experience they don't harm the bike. And also Whistler has the golden standard for pretty much everything apart from ticket value.
Top video, I'm not even in the us and I loved it- it's a really brilliant way to review parks, please carry on!!
more of those videos, i love it
i absolutely LOVED this video. lookig forward to more. as usual, perect editing and fantastic voiceover
Seth I love your channel one of my mates introduced me, and now I'm completely hooked
Keep up the awesome videos 😀😀🚴🚴🚴👍👍
This awesome, gonna love this series.
I loved this, can you make more??
This review seems seriously harsh but I guess I'm too used to "average" bring considered a derogatory attribute.
It's (sadly) refreshing to see people use words for what they actually mean.
I really enjoy your style of videos Seth. keep it up, looking forward to the next one👍👍
I would absolutely love to see you rate more bike parts, loved this video keep it up
You should review and rate your trip to Whistler as well
I love snowboarding at mountain creek!!!!!
And I am also from Long Island!!!
Same but I live in queens
POLSKA_MTB Brooklyn
@@alejandrosalazar6975 same but i live 5 minutes away and hate north peak
This is something I've wanted GMBN to do for a long time! (only as I'm from England, and learning about American bike parks isn't too useful) so well done for taking the initiative and getting going with it! Look forward to the next one :)
Hell yeah Seth, this comes very useful right now. I'm hitting mountain creek at the end of August.
Mtn Creek must have either really stepped up their game in regards to Biergarten or Seth has really sophisticated taste buds. I go to Mtn Creek all the time and think Biergarten is pretty great.
Editing is on point Seth! Loving the mix of angles.
I dig this. Bike Parks are something I want to try and the format you have for describing them seems honest.
Living in Jersey and never being to Mountain Creek...this just made me really wanna go ride this summer! Great vid bud!
I live in south California so I know dry I almost went off a cliff once
Sunset ridge and El prieto in Altadena were dry af this weekend. Coating of dust makes those rocks slippery!
At my local bike park called Skyline in Rotorua New Zealand, I pay $45 nz for 15 runs which is about a day of riding!
skyline is pretty good, I usually get 115 dollar for 40 uplifts
keep ridin and touring the bike parks. i have actually never been to a bike park. there is plenty of stuff around here to keep me amused. im in DC area. thanks for sharing seth.
I liked it. Keep the rating videos coming! Thanks for the work you do.
Hey Seth I like ur content i watched you since u were at the patio lol good luck in the future and also can u go to Philippines and ride there??Also be safe heh
10:15 when you've been watching too much bkxc and realize that the rope doesn't move.
Steven Daniels
Steven Daniels 😂😂😂
Hi Steve
More Park review please! Love this format
Great job Seth! Yes, continue to rate more parks! I've been to many bike parks in the Northeast and would like to make a prediction on how they stack up to your scores.
Here it goes:
1-Killington
2-Highland
3-Thunder
4-Burke
5-Mountain Creek
6-Blue Mountain
7-Mount Snow
8-Windham
9-Powder Ridge
10-Okemo
I just found this and you were in my hometown!!!!!!!!
Rate Kingdom trails in East Burke Vermont. It’s sick!
LONG ISLAND! I live in England and was there in august, it is such a wonderful place. New York is such an amazing place with cities, and suburbs all in one state. Can't wait to come again!
Love your videos bro. Keep em coming
Go to Burke Mountain or highland mountain bike park in New Hampshire and in Vermont and in Vermont you can do kingdom trails that is cross country mountain biking
Seth, go to Highland Bike Park in New Hampshire
Love the videos by the way
Love this, please do more!!!
This guy has the most honest reviews I've seen on TH-cam.
SCOTTY CAMNER AND BIG BOY
Loved that video
@@tombarlas6743 same
Scotty Cranmer
I fucking LOVE scotty! I hate the reality of what happened to him though......
Seth you should try Bryce bike park in southern Virginia!
Your such a great TH-cam and I enjoy watching so much it’s so relaxing
I came to mountain creek this winter for snowboarding and all I have to say is that the changes a lot of the food and it tastes a lot better then the last time I went last August.
Sethsbikehack try blue mountain in Pennsylvania
Dylan Woodward hell yeah man that's my home mountain !!!!
Dylan Woodward exactly what I just said
me too, but i will gladly take the 2 hour 45 min drive to mountain creek over the 45 min drive to blue. Too rocky, too dangerous.
Blue is awesome it just takes a few runs to get used to it and you need to like loose rocky stuff
Eric Kuhn same it's my home mountain!
Dat ending doe XD
This is an awsome idea keep doing this series
love the vid dude. really looking forward to seeing more.
I live in new jersey and i didn't know we have hills
Kuplub Yeah believe or not we have them... Very far north and west lol. I live outside of philly in NJ, so it’s about a 2.5 hr drive, which is worth it for mountain creek!
Scojopo23 yeah, I want to go there but I’m probs not good enough. But in the woods near my house there is a hill with trails all over it. It actually has some good stuff but nothing crazy. A few berms anew built a dirt jump but nothing special
Kuplub never under estimate yourself. I’ve never even seen a jump before I went here. I went twice and still didn’t clear any. This year I will, after I built some in the woods. The bike park is a place to learn and meet new and amazing people. Even if this is your first time on a bike you should go. It will teach you the ropes, and get you better. Trust me, you can handle it. It’s made to cater to everyone. Try deviant, or ego trip... 2 great green jump lines at the park that will get you ready for bigger better things!
Scojopo23 thanks, I do have a friend that used to dirt bike and is the best out of our little group so he teaches us some stuff, but I’ll try it. I’ll have to find the time though, thanks for the trail advice too
Kuplub No problem! Just get out there, hop in a bike, and enjoy yourself! Enjoyment > skill
Please make a video on g form. I can't find a review that I can trust. I love your reviews and think you'd like g form.
Thanks
My wife and I really like your rating system. Please keep them coming. Thanks!
This is gonna an be amazing series
Seth can you do snow summit in big bear
Come to snow basin utah where lift tickets are only 20 bucks
Nice review. Glad you are doing this.
i tottally want more of this, nice video
"lack of bad breaking bumps"? What bike park were you at. When ever I go to creek to breaking bumps are so bad I can't hold on to my bike.
lmao ur right I'm practically vibrating on alpine
Do spirit mountain in Duluth Minnesota please please please
Bro Ballers boss hog the greatest trial of all time
Dude I might go their for my birthday tomorrow.
Bro Ballers I agree
Are there rentals there I live down in Nebraska
Yeah he should!
Seth your commentary flows like a poem, i like it.
I love your hacks and different trails that you ride i love to ride to its my fav thing to do. i get home and hop straight on my mountain bike.
Can u go to Blue mountain bike park it's in the pocono mountains and has the steepest vertical in Pennsylvania.
MattSuttonVlogs hell yeah man my home mountain!!!
Eric Kuhn same it's my home I want to bike it do u think I need a full suspension. I snowboard at Blue Mountain and I can shred
MattSuttonVlogs if you're going for your first time I definitely recommend renting from blue. Their bikes are decent and relatively inexpensive compared to other mountains
Seven springs is better, then he can go to the wheel mill in pittsburg and do another park review!
Eric Kuhn ok thx
I was wondering if you could review a b-twin 520s full suspension. It's £369, so very inexpensive. I've seen some good reviews but weren't sure if they are real. I was thinking of getting it. What do you think?
thicc boi for about 500 usd do not even think of a full sus. It’s literally the price of a mid to low level fork
they are good bikes , I can confirm
I have own both the btwin 520 and 520s they are good bike for the price. I have tried riding both on trails, it can be done but you feel every bump. I'm upgrading to the scott genius 750 2018 this Christmas, it's about 1800-2400 pounds
I would save up for something like the voodoo hoodoo much better than Thant bag of shit
Awesome video. It’s not a Seth Video without a couple of crashes in it. I have a Bike Park bucket list every year. This year I got a chance to ride Ogden Bike Park, Angel Fire New Mexico Bike Park, and Deer Valley Utah bike park.
LOL! You're killin' me! @Seth's Bike Hacks
I think $45 is still expensive for half a day. In bikepark winterberg (germany) a day ticket is €17,50
Its 45 for a full day
In the Netherlands it's 4.... Nvm it's fuxking flat here
Seth: gives beauty a 6
Me: *cries in autumn*
Solid idea, definitely do more of these!
Def want to see more of that!
Scotty cranimer did this hill on his channel
nick northup yeah, i thought i recognized some of those features
scotty cranmer ???
Another good vid love to see more of these
Thank you very much for all that energy and passion you put into each your video! I'm very grateful and would be happy to ride together one day.
BEECH MOUNTAIN it’s definitely not the best buy fun near where you live
Anyone else recognize this park from a Scotty Cramer video last year?
Great idea in rating parks! A really good system. My local bike park (Blue Mountain in Collingwood Ontario) would probably not rate very well on this system but it is what we have.
I like the rating system! Not sure the bike park will though. Really appreciate your candid review.
"yes, it is ten dollars."..."Oh wait, wrong admission." -yup. that's how they get you. I'm sure that was deliberate.
v10moped I’ve never experienced that at creek before and I ride there all the time
Come to Australia!
Ryan Shields YES who else is in Australia
Please more reviews, theyre great!!!
Great vid! That was a very fair assessment. If you go to powder ridge in Ct, I am sure it would be a 1-2 in most categories. But the food is not bad. Thunder Mountain at Berkshire east on the other hand is the opposite. Really fun, but he food is only ok.