Bentonville, Arkansas MTB Trip

Best of Bentonville

Women’s Mountain Bike Trip, April 6 – 11, 2027

Enjoy the beauty and aroma of spring wildflowers as you ride a variety of single-track mountain bike trails (250 miles and growing daily) designed for beginner to advanced mountain bikers. The Ozark Mountains offer beautiful scenery as you ride alongside gentle streams, majestic waterfalls, lakes, and overhanging cliffs.

Trip leaders will teach fundamental to advanced mountain biking skills at various trailheads throughout the Bentonville trail system. Following the skill instruction, choose from a variety of routes depending on your fitness level and ability.

Participants will be guided through some of the best “must-ride” trails in the surrounding Bella Vista and Bentonville area. Following our daily rides, your trip leaders will provide post-workout yoga recovery sessions.

Relax in the afternoon at the newly built Trails Edge cabins or enjoy more single-track riding right out your cabin door on the Back 40 single-track trails located in Bella Vista. For more information about mountain biking in Bentonville, check out our blog post here.

Experience Bentonville’s Culture & Cuisine!

Enjoy group dinners at a variety of local Bentonville restaurants with your new bike companions. Participants can visit the world-class Crystal Bridges Museum of Art and tour the Walmart Museum. Keep your camera handy as you ride the city’s paved bike trails, filled with over 100 unique public art sculptures and murals.  

MTB ABILITY/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

We require all participants to have at least 1-2 years of previous mountain biking experience, feel confident in executing fundamental mountain biking skills, and be enthusiastic about multi-day riding.

Participants can choose from a variety of distances (10 -20 miles) for each session. Beginner to advanced ability levels are welcome! Coaches will lead smaller groups of fitness/ability levels for the daily trail rides so everyone can be challenged.

TRIP DETAILS

• Five nights’ lodging at the newly built Trails Edge cabins.
• Five dinners at local restaurants.
• Four days of guided mountain bike riding, hitting the best of Bentonville with your trip leaders.
• Fundamental and intermediate biking skills instruction (the first 20-30 minutes before our daily rides).
• Appetizers/beverages before dinner meals, as you relax outside in the woods by your cabin.
• Your trip leaders provide daily bike cleaning/lubing, if desired.
• Post-workout Yoga sessions.

Trails Edge Cabin Accommodations

TRIP PARTICIPANTS RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Any ground/air transportation from April 14 to the Trails Edge cabins and return transportation home on April 19.
• Daily transportation to different trailhead venues and local restaurants is not included. We will carpool to various destinations together. For many rides, we’ll bike from our cabins!
• All breakfast and lunch meals are on your own (each cabin includes kitchen units and the following amenities). We will also stop at various cafes for lunch on a few rides!
• Optional: Choose to bring your own dinner meals and save $250 off the above price.

TRAVEL SCHEDULE: April 6 – 11, 2027

Arrival: All participants must arrange their own ground transportation to the lodging venue. Participants should arrive between 3 and 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 6th, at the Trails Edge cabins.

Departure: Participants will depart for home early Sunday morning (feel free to take one last ride on your own if desired).

TRIP COST:

Single occupancy sleeping: Two-person cabin with single room occupancy sleeping

• $1,400 by Jan. 1, 2027
• $1,500 by Feb. 1, 2027
• Optional: Choose to bring your own dinner meals and save $250 off the above price.

Shared sleeping area (3/room accommodations)

• $1,250 by Jan. 15, 2027
• $1,350 by Feb. 15, 2027
• Optional: Dinner meals on your own save $250 off the above price.

REGISTRATION

Request a detailed itinerary and more information at the link below (space is limited to 12 participants). All registrations are non-refundable. Please see our refund policy here: Refund Policy and Travel Insurance

About Bentonville, Arkansas

 Twenty years ago, the town of Bentonville, Arkansas, wasn’t even on the map as a mountain biking destination. Over the last 15 years, however, thanks in large part to investments made by the Walton family, the city has earned the title of “Mountain Biking Capital of the World.” For 2022, Bentonville ranked #1 in the ‘PeopleForBikes’ annual city ratings.

Bentonville’s journey began relatively recently, with the city opening its first five miles of single-track in 2007 on the north end of town. Today, Northwest Arkansas has more than 500 miles of trails, stretching from Bella Vista to Eureka Springs. Bentonville’s key to success has been its ability to build trails for riders of all types. 

Meet Your Trip Leaders

Kim Rudd

Kim started mountain biking in the early 1990’s and raced in her first Chequamegon bike race in 1994. She continues to enjoy mountain bike racing into her 50s along with traveling in her camper van to explore far-off single-track trails! Kim is a certified Level 200 BICP coach and a Level 200 USSA Nordic coach. She’s passionate about coaching women of all ability levels and building a community of like-minded riders!

Jennifer Rudie

Jennifer became a certified Level 1 NICA coach and helped coach her son’s high school mountain biking team. In 2022, she became a BICP Level 1 Fundamentals Instructor. She has coached clinics for the Loppet Cycle Works, the Superior Cycling Association, and Unruly Women.  As a coach, her goal is to give you skills that build your confidence on the bike and in the woods. Jen is also a nationally certified Pilates instructor and is excited to lead post-workout recovery sessions on the Endurance Adventure trips!