This advanced-level ride is jam-packed with technical challenges and in its first 3 miles as it climbs more than 800 feet from the trailhead to a vista overlooking Rattlesnake Canyon. After climbing the dirt road from the Kokopelli Trailhead, take your first singletrack option to the right, following the base of the hills to the marked beginning of the Moore Fun Trail. The thigh-burning 2-mile climb begins (and ends) with a series of tight, technical switchbacks full of steep rock steps and ledges. Take a recovery stop at the ridge-top overlook before the 0.5-mile traverse along the cliff edge toward the ridge’s northernmost point—expect at least one hike-a-bike switchback before the real downhill begins. Watch your speed on the descent as the trail switchbacks and turns northwest toward a saddle and the junction with Mary’s Loop at mile 4.8. The last several miles of the loop follow the dirt-road doubletrack back to the trailhead.
Though this description follows the trail clockwise (from east to west), Moore Fun is also regularly ridden as an out-and-back or as an advanced eastbound return from Mary’s Loop.
-Mapped by Gene Poncelet
TO TRAILHEAD: From Fruita, drive 4.8 miles west on I-70 and take exit 15 toward Loma. Turn left to go over the freeway and turn right onto Hawkeye Rd. Just before the weigh station, in 0.2 miles, bear left onto the dirt road and follow it 0.6 miles to the trailhead parking lot.
