Caloosahatchee Mountain Bike Trail

Caloosahatchee Regional Park, part of the Lee County (FL) Parks & Recreation, is located at 18500 North River Road in Alva, Florida. This park contains almost 800 acres for the outdoor enthusiasts with the North Side of the Park having 10 + miles of Mountain Biking, hiking and and horse riding trails.

(Mountain Bike Trails are marked with the green on the map)

The Florida Mud Cutters Mountain Bike Club have been instrumental in the development of the trail system on the park's 400 acre North side. The park opened on March 6th 1999 and to this day volunteers are key for providing the trail maintenance.
And after making my recent move from Ohio to Florida, I found the trail to be a really great riding with a bit everything for all riders. The trail systems has open fast sections, a few nice jumps, plenty of tight twisty single-track, some challenging rocky sections and even a few decent quick ravine type climbs. And with the loop being 10 miles, you are sure to get a good workout- especially after two laps. I can only imagine how good the night riding to be out here and the wildlife that will be out then. ( See the Mud Cutter's web page for info. about that )

The Rock Garden Section

Twisty section through a grove of trees


It's the dry season now but I'm sure this is put to good use in later months.

I nice quick climb through some loose sugar sand.

The last section opens up and you can really smash the big ring though here as you head back to the trail head. You also get a decent head wind in some of the open sections.

I've be told the open grassy section, that have been recently mowed down, usually have the grass growing to be over six feet or more at times giving you a maze to race through.

My ride stat's :
Bike: Fisher Paragon
Weather: mid 70's and sunny
Avg. : 10.2 mph
Mx : 18.5 mph
Distance : 20.1 miles (two laps)
Time : 1 h 56 m 18s
Av HR : 155 bpm
Total Ascent : 446 '
Total Decent : 398'
Elevation : 48 ' above see level