Maryland DC Adaptive Bike Links

Last edit -February 9, 2025

2025 D.C. Metro Adaptive Mountain Bike
Mini Series

For Spring 2025 Catalyst Sports is teaming up with Friends of Patapsco Valley State Park, MORE, Montgomery County Parks, and Prince George’s County Parks. We’ve got four weekends of fun planned.

Organizations that offer ride opportunities

Volunteer Opportunities

Support riders ride with the adaptive athlete and support as necessary. That could mean spotting through a difficult section of trail, helping someone right a bike that tipped, or packing a water bottle on a hot day. Catalyst Sports has an online training that covers this in full.

Ride leaders have more experience. They can select and fit a bike for adaptive athletes and guide the ride.

Ready to take it to that next level. Get certified! BICP offers Level 1 and Level 2 Fundamental Skills Training. I took the level 1 with Mike and learned a lot!

Trails

MORE is our local IMBA chapter and they are onboard with building and maintaining adaptive mountain bike trails. They steward 925 miles of trail across Central Maryland and Northern Virginia. They were recently awarded a RTP grant for improvements to Rosaryville State Park. That grant includes adaptive spec trail to be constructed late 2025/2026.

The McKeldin Area of Patapsco Valley State Park offers the first trail in the state specifically built to the KASA adaptive mountain bike standard. The Tall Poplar and portions of the switchback trail are regular trails in our rides. More trail is under construction now and should be ready for the spring 2025 mini series. In the map below the existing trails are green. Blue is new!

OpenStreetMap with Multiple Overlays

For the first time in 2024, the MoCo Epic included an adaptive loop. It’s 4-5 miles depending on where you start.

Trailforks has an adaptive category in their database, but the quality of that information varies. https://www.trailforks.com/trails/all/adaptive/

ToDo:

Add information on AMTB plans at Rosaryville State Park. Upper Marlborough MD.
Add information on AMTB ready trails at Rockburn Branch Park, Elkridge MD, Howard County Parks.
Add information on AMTB ready trails in Wheaton Maryland, Montgomery County Parks
Add information on AMTB ready trails at Fairland Regional Park, Burtonsville MD, Prince Georges County Maryland.

Bike Shops

Lancaster Recumbent has been a supporter of adaptive mountain biking at Patapsco since the start. They’ll work with you to select and adapt a bike to meet your needs.