Mountain Biking Kokopelli’s – Moab
October 23, 2008 by TrailsTV
The great long-haired Kokopelli — once the ancient Hopi god of fertility, now the poster boy for nearly every tourist group, bike shop, cafe, bookstore and real estate company in the West — was never much of a mountain biker, according to legend. Instead, he was a flute player and lover. Nonetheless, a long, challenging mountain bike trail, stretching from Loma, Colo. to Moab, Utah, bears his name. This trail, which leads to mountain biking’s Magic Kingdom, contains several sections of varying degrees of difficulty.
Near the northern portal of Kokopelli’s Trail in western Colorado, the small town of Fruita is attempting, like hundreds of other Western towns, to position itself as a mountain bike capital. Moab, at the southern end of Kokopelli’s Trail, is firmly established as the mountain bike mecca, not without some problems brought on by legions of knobby-tire cyclists descending on the area.
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