Crown Royale

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Features Downhill · Drops/Jumps · Flow · Views

The full Crown Royale trail provides an engaging, fast, feature-filled, flowy, directional down-only experience on The Crown, linking the top of the mountain down to (just shy of) the paved path that links up many of the trail systems in the Roaring Fork Valley, the Rio Grande Trail. Much of this professionally built flow trail is blue and intermediate friendly, especially the Upper and Middle segments. BUT, you'll encounter very easy potential for high speeds, you'll encounter many jump features at speed, and you'll need to negotiate many fast berms. Your expert level riding skills will pay dividends!

Access this trail from the Top of the Crown on the Prince Creek side by climbing up Undie or Next Jen to Overie. You can access from the Roaring Fork River side of the Crown by climbing up Buckhorn or Glassier OS Trail, continuing up Vasten Trail, stomping up Imperial Gardens trail, and finally topping out via Undie. Of course, you can also access the trail at lower intersections with Vasten Trail , Buckhorn Traverse, and from a short connector halfway up Imperial Gardens.

From top to bottom, you'll start with big views of nearby Mount Sopris, while dropping through sage fields, oak brush forests, aspen groves, grassy meadows, pinion-juniper stands, and steep walled gulleys. Expect to find berms, rollers, doubles, tables, crossover loops, big and steep wall rides, natural features that will get you up into the air, and plenty of high speed moments along the way.

It's fair to say you'll find plenty of intermediate segments, and even have to pedal for a few short moments. Turn up the speed when the coast is clear ahead, but watch out for those bigger advanced features that demand skills and experience on the bike.

Towards the bottom of the trail, on Lower Crown Royale, look out for the three Crossover Loops. Be sure to space out riders at least 10 seconds. Rider in the Crossover Loop has right of way over riders not yet in the loop!

Lower Crown Royale includes a fairly steep and narrow gully that includes wall riding trail alignment that flows up and down the steep walls of the gully; momentum is your friend on this roller coaster portion of trail. Use caution as some riders find the speed required to whoop down and back up the side walls a bit daunting.