Name: Flow Trail
Rating: 4.9

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Head down the Ridge Trail from Aptos Creek Fire Road passing Corral, Sulphur Springs and Braille Trail until you arrive at Segment 1 of the Flow Trail. Point your bike downhill and begin ripping the berms, whoops, and pumps galore the next 3 1/2 miles.

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Local Club: Mountain Bikers of Santa Cruz

Land Manager: Cal Fire - Demonstration State Forests

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Garritt Cusack with improvements by Logan Smith

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4.9 from 192 votes

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4.9 from 192 votes

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Apr 27, 2016 near Day Valley, CA

4k GoPro riding Braille Flow and Braille Downhill on a Specialized Fuse hardtail 29er

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Nov 18, 2018 near Day Valley, CA

Apr 11, 2021 near Day Valley, CA

Apr 11, 2021 near Day Valley, CA

Jan 1, 2021 near Day Valley, CA

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Mar 31, 2024

Marc Daniel

With Mila — 12h 20m

Jan 15, 2024

Private User

Nov 11, 2023

Michael Hwang

Sep 24, 2023

Marc Daniel

With Paul, 12miles total. Braille was closed — 11h 00m

Dec 19, 2022

Matt Smith

2 laps on flow trail, one on braille. flow is superior! best flow trail in ca?! 27mi

Oct 18, 2022

Hunar Dhar

Trail is in terrible shape, seems like nobody is maintaining it. — 3h 00m

May 28, 2022

Stephen Frey

Mar 31, 2022

Nate Martin

Berms near the top could use some maintenance

Feb 19, 2022

Alia Crook

Jan 15, 2022

Andy Shih

First ride. Such a well maintained trail. Go up sulfur mtn and it leads to flow. Best ride yet, they should charge people to use the trail 12mi — 3h 00m

Jul 16, 2021

Pietro Binetti

16mi — 2h 30m

Mar 12, 2021

Akaash T

Mar 8, 2021

Chris M

Feb 27, 2021

Mike Dahlquist

Jan 14, 2021

Chris Sorensen

Double Flow = Perfect Day! 22.5mi — 2h 30m

Dec 20, 2020

thiago lacerda

Aug 30, 2020

Sachiko Shirota

Aug 1, 2020

Niko Rochet

With Matt

Jul 16, 2020

Kenny Rapmund

May 9, 2020

Sarah Milner

May 4, 2020

Melissa Davis

Nov 10, 2019

Caleb Wolper

Sep 30, 2019

Florencio N LouieAnn Lavadia

Wow! My buddy Jorel took me here for the first time and man, it was tough and fun 6mi

Sep 2, 2019

R. Gon

4.8mi — 0h 55m

Aug 15, 2019

Jo Pa

Jun 4, 2019

saint18z

Hard to get to but so good, up hill in and out 2,346ft of gain 14.6mi — 6h 08m

Apr 28, 2019

Jimmy Ly

Jan 19, 2019

Jesse Vanderhoff

Nov 27, 2018

Victoria Liu

You go down Hihns Mill Rd, go up Sulphur Springs, then catch Flow Trail from there

Nov 18, 2018

Jay Holsten

One of the best flow trails anywhere. A total blast!

Nov 15, 2018

Mark Schrumpf

incredible ride, this is what mountain biking is about.

Sep 23, 2018

Vijay Bhaskaran

12mi

Sep 15, 2018

Jesse Vanderhoff

Trails were pretty dusty. Watch out for loose soil.

Sep 9, 2018

Ken Holt

Sep 4, 2018

Ben Allan

Sep 1, 2018

Jt Swisegood

Shuttled up to ridge trail and took ridge to flow trail. After flow, we took the fire road back up to the parking lot 14mi

Aug 28, 2018

Max Williams

Amazing! So fun and flowy, but the climbs are real.

Aug 17, 2018

Steve Dorsey

SUPER fun, and SUPER tough to climb out of. It's a LONG way out, but totally worth it. Needs maintenance most of the time, dangerous if not maintained

Aug 5, 2018

Don Dahlmeier

Jul 2, 2018

James F

Ride with Beck & Uncle Shaun.

Jun 30, 2018

Ribo Holganza

dusty and lots of brake bumps 5 hrs total for full loop (parking lot to Aptos to ridge to flow to hill Mill) 3.4mi

Jun 18, 2018

Kevin Schmitt

Jun 14, 2018

Aimie Hanson

Flow trail itself is amazing. Fun for intermediate riders. Be ready to climb in and out!! 9mi — 3h 30m

Jun 11, 2018

Kevin Ross

14.5mi — 2h 45m

May 31, 2018

Stephen Benson

awesome

May 26, 2018

Kari Browning

Awesome flow Trail! 30mi

May 21, 2018

Kevin Ross

15.8mi — 3h 00m

May 13, 2018

Sarah Ireland

the flow trail is so much fun! Getting in and out is a treck. 4 or 5 miles up hill. it was worth it.

Apr 28, 2018

Coltonpalmer

Apr 8, 2018

Scott Snow

Feb 3, 2018

Chris Fox

20mi — 2h 35m

Jan 21, 2018

Brian Paden

Great conditions

Nov 30, 2017

Jay Holsten

Oct 20, 2017

Glenn Ito

Oct 19, 2017

Nicole Ellsworth

Trail is fun but pretty beat up

Oct 3, 2017

Haydan Ehresman

20mi

Aug 20, 2017

Larry Russell

2210ft 6.4mi

Aug 19, 2017

Larry Russell

2nd Run 6.4mi

Jul 2, 2017

James Lindenberger

What an amazing ride! I've never ridden berms that big! Rode up the road climb to Ridge, then down corral, back up Sulphur Springs, then down Flow. 17.1mi — 4h 15m

Jun 26, 2017

Mark Kelleher

Unreal, amazing flow and huge fun! Tough fire climb up Sulfur Springs road. 3.4mi

Jun 23, 2017

Constantine Krotcov

Jun 20, 2017

Joseph Hart

Fun quad burner, I am not a huge fan of Flow trails, would rather ride more "organic" singletrack but this was fun. 3.4mi

Dec 20, 2016

Johnnie P.

Such fun. Stress induced stress relief.

Dec 4, 2016

david wholey

Nov 12, 2016

Franck Syren

Oct 8, 2016

David Rosenberg

Sep 1, 2016

Evan McNiel

Jul 3, 2016

Joe Morse

Took the shuttle. Rode Flow. Climbed out on Tractor. Rode down Aptos Creek Fire road and crashed in the silt at the top... 24.5mi — 3h 12m

Feb 4, 2016

abel estrada

Nov 3, 2015

Kirk Liebscher

Great first ride of the Flow Trail. perfect weather!! Nothin' but fun! — 9h 30m

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