Mountain View Trail
Mammoth Lakes / San Joaquin Ridge · near Mammoth Lakes · Eastern Sierra
Mountain Biking
At a glance
- Skill level
- intermediate
- Trail miles
- ~5.3 mi one-way; ~11 mi out-and-back
- Elevation
- 8,500-9,155 ft; ~780 ft climbing, most popular as a long ridge descent
- Best season
- Summer-fall (best in cool fall); snow-free roughly June-October
Worth knowing
- Good for a first timer
- No
Mountain Biking detail
- Nickname
- The Minaret Vista Descent
- Ride types
- xc · all-mountain
- Signature trails
- The San Joaquin Ridge Descent · Dry Creek Flow
- Ebike
- No
- Ebike note
- No e-bikes - Mountain View is closed to e-MTB at this time.
- Intl tip
- Time it for late September or early October, when the aspen in the Dry Creek drainage turn gold and the descent doubles as the best fall-color ride in the range.
The guide
Mountain View is the Eastern Sierra ridge descent that everyone remembers - a long, winding pumice singletrack off the San Joaq…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Mountain View Trail — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 37.654, -119.04