subject: Adventure Travel - Burnaby Mountain Bike Park [print this page] Do you want to jump on your mountain bike and experience the challenges of adventure travel with a solid dose of a big city's night life and never have to get in a car? If you have never heard of Burnaby, British Columbia, it is a suburb of Vancouver BC giving you the convenience of staying in the middle of a great city with quick access to excellent mountain bike trails. It is easy to arrive at Vancouver International Airport, take the SkyTrain to a bike friendly hotel, and spend your days in Burnaby mountain bike park encompassed by woods, mountains, and ocean views with some awesome downhill mountain bike trails.
One of the biggest obstacles for most adventure travelers is getting your mountain bike to your destination when you travel via plane; though, it is not as inconvenient or as expensive as it seems! Most airlines only charge an additional $50 US fee to transport a bike. It is simple to pick up a used cardboard mountain bike box at a local bike store and packing your bike only requires you to take off your front tire, detach your pedals, and loosen your headset enough where you can turn it 90 degrees so it will lay flat in the box. Tape it up (and do not forget to pack the tape for your return trip).
After arriving at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) it is easy to take the SkyTrain to a Burnaby bike friendly hotel. The best mountain bike friendly hotel to stay at in BC will offer bike mechanic tools, a bicycle tuning station, and be conveniently located off the Lougheed Highway since it takes less than an hour to get there from YVR via the SkyTrain using the Canada, Expo, and Millennium Lines. SkyTrain operator Translink has an easy trip planner that can give you the exact times and detailed itinerary of your connections from Vancouver's airport to your bike friendly Burnaby hotel. If you arrive late, you can always just spend one night at a Vancouver Airport hotel before heading onto Burnaby.
Advanced mountain bike enthusiast looking for cycling adventures may travel around the world to experience challenging mountain bike trails. Bay area trails have some of the best topography with their sheer cliffs, rocky terrain, and thick forest that provide thrills to even those with the highest level of experience and physical fitness. Mountain biking in BC offers the diversity of terrain expected by mountain adventure travelers and the trails on Burnaby Mountain are a popular destination for people looking for an intermediate to advanced trails with natural obstacles, steep grades, and narrower gravel and dirt paths.
After a long day mountain biking the slopes of Burnaby Mountain, finding adventure in the big city of Vancouver is a great way to end the day. The city of Burnaby has bike routes that connect on to almost every area of Vancouver and making transfers using buses and SkyTrains are very bike friendly. This makes it easy to explore popular sight-seeing destinations, eat at premiere restaurants, and enjoy the night life a city the size of Vancouver can offer.
by: Vicky Goche
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