 | Snowbird Snowbird offers two loops sharing one section of common singletrack. Or, you can ride the main gravel road to the top of the mountain. The Easy Loop is a friendly but short ride following the dirt road south of the river and the singletrack Bird Trail to connect. That's around 2 miles with 200 vertical feet of climbing. The Race Loop is 5 miles with about 95% singletrack. |
| Race Loop riding directions, clockwise: 0.0 Cross creek straight uphill onto main DT N40 34.762 W111 39.503 0.2 Pass Dick Bass, keep on DT N40 34.817 W111 39.336 0.4 Hard L on ST N40 34.887 W111 39.255 1.0 Cross Dick Bass Hwy and descend a bit N40 34.695 W111 39.386 1.2 Temporarily join DT, fork R at ST 1.5 Cross DT (stay on ST) N40 34.586 W111 39.761 2.0 Keep straight (L = Big Mountain) N40 34.448 W111 39.603 2.2 R on tram road, head downhill N40 34.340 W111 39.679 2.3 Veer L onto ST 3.6 L on ST 30 feet, R on faint DT | 3.7 Hard L onto ST (White Pine) N40 34.636 W111 40.101 3.8 Fork hard R (go back east) N40 34.617 W111 40.330 (down-canyon is continued White Pine) 3.9 Join DT 4.3 Pass one lift, pass DT heading uphill on R Curve R around next lift to uphill 2nd DT Climb DT N40 34.666 W111 39.980 4.4 Hard L onto ST at turn in road (Bird Trail) N40 34.613 W111 40.090 4.9 L downhill on DT N40 34.725 W111 39.512 5.1 R uphill to finish race, L for parking N40 34.774 W111 39.473 |
| Tram Road: To take the tram to the top, take Entry 2 and go to the Snowbird Center. Buy a pass at the ticket office, then go into the tram building east of the plaza. To ride to the top via the tram road, cross the river and head right downhill on DT along the river until you hit the Mid-Gad chairlift. Turn left and head uphill. To climb the Dick Bass Highway singletrack to the tram road, cross the river and turn left. Just past the paved walking trail, fork hard right uphill on singletrack. When you reach the road, turn left. |
 | Getting there:
From I-15, take the 90th South
exit. Drive east. 90th South will veer southward to become 9400 South.
Keep straight until you hit the mouth of the canyon. When the road ends
at
the stop sign at the Little Cottonwood Canyon road, turn right towards
the
flashing canyon sign. Drive 5.8 miles up the canyon. For the Mid-Gad Chair
trailhead, turn right into Snowbird Entry 1. Park immediately and cross
Little Cottonwood Creek to find the Mid-Gad chairlift. The Easy Loop
starts with the dirt road that parallels the creek, heading east up past
the Snowbird Center. For the Tram and
Snowbird Center (Big Loop), take Entry 2, 1/2 mile further up-canyon. Copyright 2003 Mad Scientist Software Inc.
Updated 2012
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