Freehub Crested Butte Mountain Bike Park POV Video

Follow Jesse East and Cal Hill around the Crested Butte Bike Park

In the latest installment of Freehub Magazine’s POV (Perspectives on Velocity) video series, we follow local riders through some of Crested Butte Mountain Bike Park’s most difficult trails. Let athletes Cal Hill and Jesse East show you around iconic Crested Butte tech trails like Avery, Boulder Mason and Psycho Rocks. Not many of us are able to manual down a chunky, black-diamond trail, but we can all enjoy a video of someone else doing it!

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Crested Butte Bike Park Perspectives on Velocity (POV) video

Meet the riders

Jesse East and Cal Hill are both alumni of Western Colorado University, a small public university just down the road in Gunnison. They’ve ridden these trails plenty of times, so they’re the perfect guides to show the very best of what the Crested Butte Bike Park has to offer.

Jesse East

You might remember Jesse East from this Matchstick Productions video where he absolutely shredded some of Crested Butte’s backcountry trails with Carson Storch. Follow Jesse on Instagram for more shenanigans.

Cal Hill

Some people can do it all, and Cal Hill is one of them. Cal is also an accomplished freeride skier, as evidenced by this Matchstick Productions video where he shreds Crested Butte Mountain Resort with Logan Pehota on an epic powder day. Follow Cal on Instagram to keep up with him in every season.

Crested Butte Bike Park trails

Downhill MTB trails in Crested Butte

The Crested Butte Bike Park is known for rocky, technical trails served by Crested Butte Mountain Resort’s Red Lady chairlift. Bonus—the scenery of the surrounding West Elk Mountains is also stunning.

Ride through rock gardens and off diving board features on expert trails like Boulder Mason, Avery and Captain Jack, or explore tabletop jumps and big berms on blue trails like Teaser, Luge and Frequency. Green trails like Hotdogger and Downtime offer non-technical descents for beginner riders or anyone looking for a fun, flowy trail.

Crested Butte Mountain Bike Park trail map

Find your trails

Plan your day in the Crested Butte Bike Park! Click on each trail to see its length and difficulty rating. 

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Discover more trails

Watch other pro riders shred some famous—and some not-so-well-known—trails around the Gunnison Valley. 

More about mountain biking near Crested Butte

The Crested Butte Mountain Bike Park trails are just the tip of the iceberg of the Gunnison Valley’s massive trail network. Backcountry epics north of Crested Butte provide challenging, high-mileage alpine routes for seasoned riders. Farther south, explore a wide variety of trails in the Brush Creek and Cement Creek drainages.

Ride Taylor Canyon’s famous Doctor Park trail, or explore Hartman Rocks in Gunnison for technical, high-desert singletrack paradise. Find more detailed trail beta in our guide to mountain biking in the Gunnison Valley.

Plan your trip

So you watched the Freehub Crested Butte Mountain Bike Park POV Video, and Jesse East and Cal Hill have sold you—you’re ready to start planning a trip here. Find information on lodging, flights and restaurants in Crested Butte and Gunnison in our trip planning guide.

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