St George, UT - On Two Wheels

The town of St George is great for biking. There are lots of interconnecting paved trails to get around town, tour the Virgin River area, or ride into the State Park. So one day we hopped on the Virgin River trail right from our campground - how convenient is that!
You might have noticed that I'm not on a paved trail in the picture above. We bypassed a "trail closed" sign to see why it was closed. Well, last year they experienced one of those 100-year floods and the Virgin River decided to pick up the asphalt trail and move it...or remove it.

We met a biker on this trail that told us of an area nearby that was great for mountain bikes - the "most fun you'll have in the desert", he said. So the next day we hit Bear Claw Poppy Trail...and had lots of fun on the rolly-polly hills...
We couldn't remember all of the directions he gave us, but we remembered that one area was easy and the other....well, he broke two ribs in that section. Unfortunately we we went through that section looking for the easy section. It must get crazy if it is busy, though. All of the trails crisscross and with the hills it would be hard to tell who is on which trail. Good thing we had it all to ourselves.