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Trails in the Phoenix park

  • 28-08-2013 7:37pm
    #1
    fran oconnor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 662 ✭✭✭


    I'm getting back on my bike in the morning and I was wondering if there are any handy trails in the park.


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  • #2
    g0g
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭g0g


    fran oconnor wrote: »
    I'm getting back on my bike in the morning and I was wondering if there are any handy trails in the park.

    by trail do you mean on the road or off it?


  • #3
    fran oconnor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 662 ✭✭✭fran oconnor


    g0g wrote: »
    by trail do you mean on the road or off it?
    sorry I meant off road on my hard tail


  • #4
    Micilin Muc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,842 ✭✭✭Micilin Muc


    What kind of off-road trails are you looking for? I have run the vast majority of the trails in the Park and would say that the trails aren't that exciting. They're very tame, and that's coming from a tame MTBer!


  • #5
    fran oconnor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 662 ✭✭✭fran oconnor


    Micilin Muc wrote: »
    What kind of off-road trails are you looking for? I have run the vast majority of the trails in the Park and would say that the trails aren't that exciting. They're very tame, and that's coming from a tame MTBer!
    just something handy to get the legs moving, it's ages since I have been out on the bike and just want a spin to get me back moving.


  • #6
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,738 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    I'd suggest going down to St Annes, it's not exactly the Wicklow Mountains but there's a couple of sections that we used to fly around when we were younger, broke my arm in two places on one section and someone else dislocated a shoulder :D


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  • #7
    Tenzor07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,150 ✭✭✭Tenzor07


    Have a search around the Furry Glen :D


  • #8
    Morgan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Morgan


    There are some decent stretches of singletrack either side of the Khyber Road, up around the Magazine Fort and around the Furry Glen.


  • #9
    roadster5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 105 ✭✭roadster5


    I go for a 35minute spin around the park a couple of days a week, at lunchtime. I usually enter at the ashtown main gate and turn immediately right - past the gatekeepers cottage. There is a well defined path a good bit around the park - continue on as far as castelknock gate - cross over road and continue through trees close to perimeter wall - cross entrance road to Farmleigh - continue to next road - cross over and down the hill (watch out for pedestrians) - over pond/bridge and back up hill to cross the road - up onto track and continue around the perimeter of St Marys Hosp - then cross over road and continue on cycle track around football pitches and back to Phoenix monument and then around perimeter of ashtown gate visitor centre - its a nice spin - flat, bumpy in parts and with few other peeps around - there are lots of trails around the park that are used by runners - so they are very visible - hope that helps

    Rob


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