Is Spider Mountain a dangerous bike park?

I jumped to a random point. She was talking about how the tech trails had too many holes to shed her over the handlebars. Isn’t that the point of tech to be challenging and to pick your lines correctly? I’ve never ridden there so I’m just nitpicking.

I am a mediocre XC guy, this was the first bike park I’ve been to other than Bentonville, and I was on an XC bike and didn’t have any problems. My 9 year old son and 6 year old daughter shred down those trails no problem on hardtails. My wife who at the time had no tech skills had no problem there. (she does now, god help me)

Stuff felt way safer and tamer there that at Trestle, where I felt like my wimpy XC bike was gonna die! lol

I go to spider every once in a while. It’s really running smooth when the trail crew is preparing for a race. But there are parts, particularly on the single and double black where it’s rougher and you need to know how to ride it. The locals there will show you, and you’ll probably be able to watch someone else pick the right lines if you wait by off the trail.

I live in the area and spider is great. Lots of tech, but decent flow lines as well. The greens are mega chill, the blues are aptly named, and even some of the blacks aren’t bad for newer / intermediate riders if they take it easy. Park kinda lacks variety in the jump department, but Station and Revielle Peak Ranch make up for that in spades.

On that note, I absolutely recommend hitting those two other parks because they’re dope as hell, and all three in the area compliment each other really well. Revielle would probably be my top recommendation, but it’s a day pass use place with no shuttles or lift. It’s best to go with someone that know the park.

Station is a dope shuttle park with killer jump lines and some good tech. It’s the newest of all of them. They’re still putting work into it, but have a solid amount of good, progressive, trails and my most visited park.

So… if you’re in the area and can pull it off, I’d recommend all three. They’re all within a half hour of each other, with Spider and RPR being right down the road from each other.