Mammoth Mountain Bike Park
Mammoth Lakes · near Mammoth Lakes · Eastern Sierra
Mountain Biking
At a glance
- Skill level
- beginner
- Trail miles
- 80+ miles of singletrack · Gondola, 3 lifts, and shuttle bus
- Elevation
- Summit at 11,053ft · 3,100ft vertical drop to base · Discovery Zone for beginners
- Best season
- Late June–September (snowmelt dependent) · Check opening dates — lower mountain opens earlier than summit
Worth knowing
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Mountain Biking detail
- Ride types
- bike-park · downhill · xc · flow
- Signature trails
- Kamikaze (and Kamikaze Lower) · Discovery Zone · Shotgun / Downtown
- Ebike
- Yes
- Ebike note
- eMTBs available to rent at Mountain Center — Mammoth's only location offering e-bikes. Altitude (11,053ft summit) makes e-bikes especially practical. Standard bikes work fine but plan for altitude fatigue.
- Intl tip
- Mammoth is 5 hours from Los Angeles and 6 from San Francisco — the standard approach is a weekend trip with Friday night arrival. The gondola to the summit is worth riding even if you're not biking — views of the Eastern Sierra and Owens Valley are genuinely jaw-dropping. Combine with a morning ride in the Owens Valley (the world-class paragliding site we cover separately) for a complete Eastern Sierra weekend.
The guide
The best lift-served mountain bike park in California, and by many accounts the best in the US. Mammoth Mountain's 80+ miles of…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Mammoth Mountain Bike Park — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 37.6308, -119.0326