Name: Tamarancho to Repack
Rating: 4.0

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Overview

There's tremendous off-road riding available outside the town of Fairfax, but as a true testament to your mountain bike prowess you owe it to yourself to ride Repack Road at least once before you die. This offers a pretty good amount of singletrack riding in order to get to the top of the trail, along with some doubletrack fireroad with plenty of climbing. Also it gives you a chance to pop into the iconic new flow trail on your way out there.

Need to Know

Be sure to get a day/season pass for the Tamarancho trail system from one of the shops in town before starting.

Description

From Fairfax, ascend through the city streets following the signs towards the Tamarancho trail system, be sure to also pick up a day pass at one of the local shops. Ascend along the roads until you hit the trail loop and then start the ascent in the clockwise direction. Start with Alchemist Trail, turn left onto Goldman Trail, right on Serpentine Trail, and straight onto B-17 Trail. Essentially, keep following the main singletrack out until you top out near the flow trail. If it's open and you want to take a few quick hot laps on the flowy stuff, feel free.

Ascend out of the loop and onto the White Hill Fire Road. Ascend this until it intersects with San Geronimo Ridge Road and take a left. Follow the road out until you see a sign saying "Cascade Canyon Road (AKA Repack)". This is your descent. Follow this fast trail all the way back down to Fairfax. And enjoy the creek crossings!

History & Background

There's a tremendous amount of history surrounding the Repack trail, starting with Charlie Kelly's webpage: sonic.net/~ckelly/Seekay/re…

Also, there's a new mountain bike museum slated to open in Fairfax that you should absolutely check out at the end of your ride!

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Local Club: Marin County Bicycle Coalition

Shared By:

Dave Reed with improvements by Mark Griffin

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Trail Ratings

4.0 from 33 votes

#5

in Marin County

#697

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4.0 from 33 votes

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4 Star		36%
3 Star		12%
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1 Star		9%

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Yuri Hauswald shows you around one of his favorite local trail systems.

Nov 15, 2016 near Fairfax, CA

Dropping into Camp Tamarancho for a good time!

Jul 4, 2019 near Fairfax, CA

Mountain biking camp tam and trying out the north shore features. Best singletrack in Marin!

Dec 20, 2020 near Fairfax, CA

Not double black diamond as the sign says- landing too easy. Fun enough but not worth the climb to get there for me.

Nov 17, 2021 near Fairfax, CA

Wagon Wheel Trail Section, counter-clockwise

Nov 10, 2014 near Fairfax, CA

Starting the flow trail. See you at the bottom

Jul 25, 2015 near Woodacre, CA

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Feb 26, 2024

Mar Cos

Jul 8, 2023

BenRK

Repack was really fun. The climb in is technical and steep in a few places 14.2mi — 2h 10m

Oct 15, 2022

Baldo Faieta

Nov 30, 2021

Natan Lieberman

Dec 15, 2020

Wesley Yun

Dec 1, 2020

Kristian Simsarian

Sep 19, 2020

Dozer Eugene

Jun 27, 2020

Dan Hang

Great conditions and beautiful day!

Jul 6, 2019

Christopher Hawkins

Jul 3, 2019

James Fotherby

May 15, 2019

Ritch Greene

Nov 3, 2018

Lost Justpastnowhere

Jun 25, 2018

Jake Hosek

14mi

Feb 20, 2018

Andrea Manha

Jan 28, 2018

Mar Cos

Jan 28, 2018

John Roth

If you don't enjoy climbing and switchbacks, this is not the trail for you. That said, views are amazing and the Repack Road downhill is a total gi… 14.8mi

Dec 17, 2017

BallBuster

Sep 26, 2017

Jeremy Cordova

Camp Tamarancho clockwise loop 10.6mi

Jul 2, 2017

Josh Cole

Great ride, fun singletrack. I will make it a point to come back again 15.4mi

Jul 2, 2017

Eduardo De La Torre

11.5mi

Jun 21, 2017

Mickey Fimbres

I really did not enjoy this ride. After Tamarancho is nothing but fire road 16.5mi — 5h 00m

May 7, 2017

Vincent Shen

Sep 1, 2016

Dan Hang

Awesome ride. First time doing Endor and also hitting up gestalt haus after. 17mi — 2h 48m

May 15, 2016

David Feliciano

May 14, 2016

David Feliciano

Challenging parts but a beautiful loop with varied landscape. 9mi — 2h 45m

Mar 26, 2016

Piotr Gajos

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