{"id":7363,"date":"2025-10-29T20:49:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/blog\/?p=7363"},"modified":"2025-10-29T20:49:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:49:47","slug":"water-tower-mtb-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/blog\/water-tower-mtb-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Tower Mountain Bike Network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-background\" style=\"background-color:#ebebeb\"><em>You can find posts about my <strong>25 km from WTF<\/strong> adventures <em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/blog\/category\/25km-from-wtf\/\">here<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/em> <br><em>or visualize them on this <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/edit?mid=1Eo5IU12sEHZFhl88EwjB-hLiFI5Qe3xv&amp;usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I only recently learned that the city of St Thomas, along with a number of volunteers and donors created a mountain bike trail network on the north side of the city. It&#8217;s been a long time since I did a true mountain bike ride so I loaded up my 20+ year old Norco Rush and headed out on a beautiful late October morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had the whole network to myself on this Wednesday morning which meant I could take my time learning the trails. There is a good mix of green, blue and black trails. I stuck to the green and blue ones: my favourite was one of the newer ones: Spaghetti Western. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Water Tower is a great addition to the area and I highly recommend it if you are looking for a local MTB experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More Information about the Network<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trailforks.com\/region\/water-tower-mountain-bike-network\/\">Water Tower Mountain Bike Network Mountain Biking Trails | Trailforks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Water Tower Mountain Bike Network Trails - FULL Tour - ALL THE TRAILS\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XIwWcxxsM6c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I only recently learned that the city of St Thomas, along with a number of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/blog\/water-tower-mtb-network\/\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Water Tower Mountain Bike Network<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":7362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-25km-from-wtf","excerpt","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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