Alpine MTB Map · Downhill, Enduro and Freeride Spots Worldwide

About this map

Gravity mountain-biking spots worldwide, with the practical details you need before driving somewhere: what the riding is like, what the uplift costs, and whether it is going to be wet.

One pin per destination. The pin carries a written description of the riding, the lift, the prices and the opening dates. Trail traces are added where there is a source worth trusting, but they are a bonus: once you are there, the signs and the local map do the work.
Filters. Narrow by spot type, riding style, difficulty, trail colour or day-pass price. The search box matches descriptions, not just names.
Weather and opening dates. Pick a date and the map keeps only what is open, with the forecast for that day. Spots that will probably be wet get a rain drop badge on the map itself. How much rain it takes depends on the ground: rain-sensitive spots badge on a light shower, rain-resilient ones only when it really pours.
Downloads. Export the whole map, one spot's traces or a single trace, as KML, GPX or GeoJSON, and open it in CoMaps, Organic Maps or OsmAnd. Whatever you have filtered out stays out of the file, so you get the map you were looking at.
Fork it. The repository is small and plain enough that a coding agent can rework it for you. Send a pull request if the change belongs on the main map, otherwise keep your own copy.

Why another MTB map?

Finding a good spot usually means opening a dozen resort sites, and none of them tells you in one place what the trails are like, how the lift works and what a day costs.

Trailforks has the coverage, but getting a weekend out of it onto your phone is the problem:

GPX and KML downloads sit behind a subscription, around 2.50 a month.
Traces come one at a time, so a trip means a dozen exports and a dozen imports.
Trails carry no description of the riding, the lift or the price.
Every discipline shares one map, so the gravity lines sit among XC and other riding you have to sift through.

This map proposes only gravity riding, descriptions written in plain words, and downloads that need no account, whole map or single trace.

Where the data comes from

Trail geometry from OpenStreetMap MTB route relations, pulled via Overpass and simplified, or from the operator's website. Indicative only: follow the signs on the ground, not the trace.
Lift prices, opening dates, daily hours and travel times compiled from the operators' own sites and Magic Pass, in July 2026. Where published daily hours could not be confirmed, the pin shows a typical regional estimate and says so explicitly.
Trail descriptions written from riding and from operator trail maps, by humans, often with an LLM helping.
Sources, per feature. Every spot and every trace links the sources behind its description and its geometry, so you can go and check them.
Base map tiles from OpenStreetMap, OpenTopoMap (CC BY-SA) and CyclOSM.
Weather forecasts from Open-Meteo. A blue rain badge means at least 1 mm of precipitation or a 50% probability is forecast, or at least 5 mm fell the previous day; these are the thresholds for rain-sensitive spots (clay, dark forest soil, little sun). Untagged spots need a bit more rain, and rain-resilient spots (rocky, well-draining, sunny) only badge on heavy same-day rain.

License: Map data under ODbL 1.0, because it derives from OpenStreetMap. Website code under MIT. Keep the attribution if you redistribute the files.

Trail grading

Trail colours are set by each operator, and the same colour means different things in different parts of the world. Europe uses four colours; North America splits the top end into black and double black instead; Japanese resorts mostly carry over their three-colour ski grading. Rough equivalences:

Colour equivalences
Level	Europe	North America	Japan
Easy	Green	Green circle	Green
Intermediate	Blue	Blue square	Red
Advanced	Red	Black diamond	Black
Very difficult	Black	Double black diamond	Black
Extreme	Double black or orange	Pro line, often orange	-

Treat this as indicative only: a red in one valley rides like a black in the next, and bike parks grade against their own network rather than a national standard. New Zealand uses numbered grades 1 to 6 instead of colours. The trail lines on this map keep the colour of the source data.

Natural trails: T and E

Ratings such as T5 / E2 combine two independent VTTour scales. T is how technically difficult the riding is; E is how bad a fall would be. T5 / E2 is therefore extremely difficult riding on a narrow trail with some obstacles, but without the cliff exposure of E3 or E4. Both assume dry conditions and stay subjective.

Technical difficulty
T1	Wide, smooth trail; gentle slope below roughly 20%; broad turns and no obstacles.
T2	Wide trail; moderate 20-30% slope; fine loose stones, small obstacles and easy switchbacks.
T3	Narrow and often steeper than 30%; roots, steps below 30 cm, medium scree and a few difficult switchbacks.
T4	Narrow, steep and strongly off-camber; steps above 30 cm, large loose rock and repeated difficult or occasional trials-style turns.
T5	Extreme gradients with numerous trials-style passages requiring advanced balance, wheel placement and low-speed control.

Exposure and fall consequences
E1	Low exposure: wide trail with no major hazards beside or below it.
E2	Medium exposure: narrow trail with some obstacles that can worsen a fall.
E3	High exposure: very narrow trail with many obstacles, steep slopes or small rock drops beside it.
E4	Very high exposure: substantial cliffs or rock drops beside the trail; a fall can have critical consequences.

Scale definitions adapted from VTTour's grading reference.

Contributing

Help improve the map by adding or updating spots. Everything lives in one file, alpine-mtb-map.kml: edit it, check it renders, open a pull request. CONTRIBUTING.md has the template and the rules.