Bike trails on the wild side of Vermont's northeast kingdom.
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VH is a backcountry singletrack network and race venue on private land in Victory, Vermont, one of the last towns in the U.S. to receive electricity. 25 miles of singletrack and logging roads already exist in the network. The venue has plenty of room for parking, camping, hiking, and virtually no local traffic. The trails are largely unmaintained and may be used free of charge. Riders must ride these trails at their own risk and expect challenging and at times dangerous trail elements which require good judgement when approaching. Please ride within your abilities.
The network is made possible through a memorandum of understanding between Victory Hill Trails and Conservation Collaboratives, the landowner of the 1100 acre parcel where the trails are located. The network began with several logging trails which were ridden for the inaugural CircumBurke Challenge in 2009, an event derived from the informal local tradition of circumnavigating Burke and Umpire mountains by bicycle. With encouragement from Dan Davis and Tim Tierney of Kingdom Trails, the CircumBurke event has grown into annual end-of-year mountain biking tradition, which incorporates more and more singletrack into a challenging circuit.
Beginning in 2010, volunteers from Burke Mountain Academy, Lyndon State College and the Kingdom Trails Community helped Victory Hill create a fledgling network of singletrack. Knight Ide and his IdeRide crew have more recently raised the bar by designing and building gravity oriented trails on the upper hill, and linking them to McGill's network of handbuilt intermediate and trails down below. VH now has five 1.5 mile + descending trails with more than 700 feet of vertical drop, each. They are used for the Victory Hill Enduro in May as well as in August's CLIF Enduro East - World Series Qualifier. The system currently begins at 1950 feet altitude. In the future, the upper trails will reach 2300 feet elevation. The lowest trails begin at 1300 feet..
Victory Hill is about 7 miles ride by bike from East Burke, via Lo
