Lakeland Belvedere» “Altura Trail” http://www.lakelandbelvedere.com Environmentally friendly cottage in the lake district with a belvedere and red squirrels Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:44:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Mountain bikes lure visitors http://www.lakelandbelvedere.com/mountain-bikes-lure-visitors http://www.lakelandbelvedere.com/mountain-bikes-lure-visitors#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:43:18 +0000 ian http://www.lakelandbelvedere.com/?p=2105 cycleway2e We’ve always thought that The Larches is in a great position at the foot of Whinlatter Forest but now we know that it’s also just minutes away from what is recognised as one of the region’s principal new sporting attractions – the Altura and Quercus MTB mountain bike trails, which start at the Forest Visitor Centre. The map below shows the position of the cottage just below the start of the MTB trails.

According to a report in the News and Star (28 December 2009) 12,000 people have tackled the new 7½ km Quercus trail and 10,000 have done the longer 19 km Altura route.

altura1 Bikes for renting are available at the Centre and there are opportunities also for coaching. There are plenty of other biking routes in the vicinity too, both on bridleways and on local roads. Books in The Larches’ library provide good examples and there is room to store bikes securely in the garage.

Oh yes and there’s one further point we should add – The Larches is only about 200 meters off the C2C cross country bike route, if you want to try out some sections before doing the whole route!

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