Duthie Hill
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Evergreen is proud to showcase the Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park. This park is located on the Issaquah Plateau, just north of Grand Ridge Park.
The park is a nicely wooded 120 acre forest with rolling terrain and well draining soils. There is a 2.5 acre clearing in the middle, surrounding by second growth forest. On the south end, Duthie Hill connects with Grand Ridge Park, which already has a 6 mile singletrack trail that connects all the way to I-90 in the south. On the north end, Duthie Hill can connect to Soaring Eagle Park via a 1 mile ride up Trossachs Boulevard.
High Level Trail Summary:
- 4 flowy XC trails that can be connected into a ~5 mile loop
- >2 miles of flowy and technical freeride trails of varying difficulty levels
- Progressive jump lines / flow lines, tons of practice and skill-building features
- Connects to the Grand Ridge Trail System Grand Ridge
More details...
- The XC trails are mostly smooth, buff, flowy, contoured singletrack with bermed turns (particularly Bootcamp and Step It Up). Some are a bit more technical than others (Movin' On and Braveheart). All XC trails have advanced and challenging optional features including logrides, ladders, drops & skinnies.
- Beginner to Extreme Expert Freeride trails with tables, gaps, drops, step-ups, step-downs... a bit of everything.
- The Flowpark has the biggest concentration of freeride trails and features in any public riding area in the state.
- 3 pump tracks... 2 in the clearing and 1 at the top of the flow park (entrance to Rehab).
- Practice area with drops of varying height, skinnies, and beginner tables and step-down jumps.
King County has provided Community Partnership and Youth Sports Facilities and Youth Athletic Fund Grants to help fund the project. Evergreen corporate supporters, private donors and volunteers have contributed over $50,000 and 20,000 volunteer hours to the Park. How cool is that?! Thanks very much to everybody for this awesome place to ride and just hang out!
Duthie Hill Park was designed and built by the Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance with grant money from King County and aweseome financial and volunteer support from Evergreen members and the mt biking community. We'd love your financial support to continue to improve and maintain Duthie Hill!
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The park is in descent shape considering the windstorms, ice and snow. Trail is damp with only a couple of minor mud puddles. There are three blown down trees, two on the east segment of Bootcamp and one on Honey Badger. They are all 12" dia or less. I also saw the D...
Haven't been here in a while, but feels like the entire place was let go for anything moderately difficult. It has become an uninteresting beginner's playground.
-Jumps were in very poor condition
-Washboard on berms (joyride specifically)
-Jumps are much smaller then they...
im no complaing im just saying the whole park needs help blown out burms brake bumps and set it up is over grown ,
Duthie is really a world class park, and I think under appreciated by the local mountain bike community. I rode HLC, Voodoo, Ryan's and Step It Up as well as Luna and Boot Camp several times. Bad news is these trails are so heavily ridden that there are now braking bumps (more like pits) in most...
Sailing over all jumps to exult in victory over Gravy Train
My confidence at apogee from skills via practice
Trails looking good. There is a log down across the shortcut trail to ride the end of Rehab.
I headed back to Duthie to learn how to jump gaps. First I walked Gravy Train, and then started hitting jumps and adding another 2-3 with every descent. They get bigger further down the trail, and by 10:00 AM I'd sent them all except the last (biggest) one. I'm saving that for next time!
Arrived in south parking lot about 8:00 AM and rode Space Coaster, Deuces Wild and Ryan's Line. By 10:00 AM the central clearing was crawling with kids. There are shelters, vans, cookie circles and more arriving all time. I even saw a very young kid riding with training wheels! Craziness. Thankfu...
Parked in the north lot, which was a mistake as the entrance to the boardwalk is choked with soul sucking mud. Stick to the south lot! Duthie was surprisingly muddy overall, every run had multiple mud holes to either dodge or splash through. Also kids classes seem to be ramping up, central cleari...
Plenty of parking at 8:00 AM on a Monday, rode the blue XC runs Step It Up, Bootcamp and Braveheart. Deuces Wild, Space Coaster and practice drops into central clearing also open. Flow Park, Ryan's Line and HLC closed and blocked off. I respected the closure, those are mostly beyond my curr...
ALways fun. Loads of puddles and deep soft mud. Tree down across the trail at the bottom of duces wild. All in all a fun day in the mud
There is no snow on the trails, however it's there at the trailheads. I decided not to ride too fast because the ground was still pretty hard
Entire park is still covered with a few inches of snow. Riding any trails as of today is near impossible unless a day or plus bike is used with low enough tire pressure.
Parking lots are closed as of today, unless you are within walking/riding distance to the park, traveling to here...
Hadn’t been to Duthie since some of the last cleanups were made on HLC. VooDoo, HLC, and Gravy Train are in perfect condition - clean and smooth as velvet. 🏄🏿♂️ Nothing like a Tuesday morning for crowds, either. 👍🏼
I rode the blue lines this morning; Dueces, Movin'on, Breavehart, StepItUp, and Bootcamp in that order. These trails are clear from the Wed night windstorm with one exception. There is a tree near the end of bootcamp. Someone stacked some bits of wood around the long to make a fun little r...
HLC, VooDoo, Ryan's, and Gravy Train running sweet. But it's super dry out there. 40 days(!?) without rain, and Washington's most heavily used bike park is seeing some strain; some corners are getting super loose (HLC), making holding speed through corners a challenge. Still great fun thoug...
Just giving riders a heads up, the trails have been rebuilt/updated so there are features that haven't been there in a while or have been built back up. Caused a bit of a surprise last night on Voodoo. So riders just be aware. "Pre-ride, re-ride, free-ride" is in full effect. Enjoy the trails!
Didn't actually ride, haven't seen this in person, but Evergreen reported from King County that the water-over-trail problem with the north lot has been fixed.
I rode Duthie from the north entrance about a week ago with my son, and found a significant amount of water over the trail leading up to the boardwalk (the boardwalk itself was fine). We were able to ride through it, but today, I found it hub-deep. Fortunately it was just me, because...
The trails are in very good shape except Jabulani! That trail had some major holes on the berms and different parts of the downhill. Be aware if you take off down that one!
The park is in great shape! The drops to the entrance of Voo Doo are fixed. Most if not all fallen trees have been cleared. There are a couple pot holes in boot camp but nothing that can't be avoided. BC/DC is closed and some of the runs in the flow park are getting some attention so be aware of...
Just a heads up. There is a tree down across the dual slalom course about a third of the way down.
Rode last evening after work (5-630) ... parking lot around 1/4 full for how clear it ended up being later in the day which was a surprise after the rains. Couple things;
- everything I rode was in great shape, super sticky and the birms down 2Hi just had some work done on them ... B...
There is no doubt that Duthie is suffering through this summer, but that's no reason to stay away! It's actually pretty good, if you can apply a gentle touch. Ryan's is probably best left un-ridden, but Voodoo and HLC are still delivering.
Time of Ride: 6:30-7:30
Track Ridden: Bootcamp, Deuces Wild, Step It Up, Voodoo Child
Bike Used: Hardtail
Soil: Moondust in some areas, compact in others
Comments: Tracks are running great for the conditions we're facing...
My buddy and I just hit a few basics: VooDoo, 2Hi, HLC, Gravy Train and Ryan's. Everything was riding great. It had been a long time since I hit 2Hi, and was disappointed to see how it's changed (all the gaps are tables). HLC is flowing really nice - better than ever. The work on Gravy Train is r...
Just a short session today on VooDoo Child, HLC and Gravy Trail - all of which are in great shape! HLC is flowing very nicely, though the run-in to Happy Ending has been baptized by brake bumps. The rebuilt section of Gravy is so smooth and nice - great work!
Went for a late night spin NYE and found great conditions everywhere, in part due to the cool (below freezing) temps. Even when it warms up though, there is very little mud to thaw out in any place. The Happy Ending of HLC is currently closed for repairs.
went on this ride today. went up with my newphew which is 10. great ride for beginners. there are some difficult rides also. a lot of different trails to choose from. every trail is marked very well to know where to go. i WILL be hitting this trail again. my cousin bit it pretty hard. but it was...
A lot of signs of recent extraordinary rains - but fortunately not on the trails themselves! Aside from a few puddles in the parking lot/access trail, and a few very minor soft spots in places, the you'd never otherwise know it had rained here. HLC is open again and looking great (thr...
A few trails closed for repairs, but what's open is flowing greased weasel speed.
VooDoo: check. Ryan's: check. Gravy Train: check (rolling fast!). HLC: closed for repair.