Rattlesnake Bike Park
Rattlesnake Bike Park is the closest shuttle-assisted to Charlotte. It's approximately 1-hour outside of Southwest Charlotte in Winnsboro, SC straight down I-77. This park offers a great introduction to bike park riding with plenty of great riding for beginners, fast jump (and other features) lines for seasoned riders, and even some double black features for the expert riders. Very nice facilities, staff, and trails. Highly recommend!
Before You Ride
The below are a selection of our favorite trails. More trails are likely available and can be found on the trail map.
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50 Shades of Clay
Best trail here... Tons of speed, tons of jumps. You have to choke up a bit on your speed right from the first series of jumps if the dirt is rolling well. There's an optional road gap, great kicker jump addition, a couple of step ups, and again, more speed than you can handle. This is a great trail to acclimate to the speed and warm up your jumping legs to get into the bigger stuff.
Mad Hatter
This is great to connect to ~50 Shades of Clay as this feels like an extension of the same flow but with bigger gaps and bigger jumps.
Purgatory
Another great one to connect to 50 Shades of Clay. Features some of the best formed jumps at the park, optional rock gaps that have high visibility to the shuttle passing by (if you're into that sort of thing), and great speed.
Waimea
This is the one you've heard about. HUGE jumps that get progressively bigger as you go down the trail. This starts out on Rock Garden with some nice downhill features (rock garden, jumps, berms) and spits you out into the final run of the beastly jumps. They are no joke so please pre-ride. Pro-tip, pedal your ass off between the first and second jump even if you don't feel like you need to. You do not want to case on this one. Also, no one will fault you for not hitting the last jump. It's a lonnnnnnnng knuckle and absolutely full commit.
Rock Garden
As the name suggests, begins with a rock garden and features great speed and a couple sizeable rock garden gaps.
Voodoo
Another fun little blue downhill line with smaller features and decent speed.
Sabotage
Fun blue with some great speed that'll take you from top to bottom. Some pretty fast drops at the beginning followed by some fast riding through berms and other smaller features.
Venom
Biggest trail here with the most eye-catching feature, the large drop into a HUGE wall ride. The ride is stacked with big features and it's highly visible to the top of the trail system and the shuttles.
Chupacabra
Fun little blue that starts with an optional small jump through a tree. Smaller features that may help you build up confidence to some of the other stuff.
Paradise
Long, flowy green line that is great for warming up the legs or introducing beginners to bike park speed.
Southern Comfort
Home Run
Trail Map
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Ratings
Reviews
Fun bike park about an hour from Charlotte, NC. Trail features range from flowy jumps to techy rock garden drops. There are flowy green trails for families and newer riders to have fun on as well. Clean(!) PRIVATE(!!) & INDIVIDUAL(!!!) LOCKING(!!!!) bathrooms with showers!!!!! There is a chill spot to hang out at the main trail head and shop once you get off the shuttle. Highly recommend to everyone and I will be back many many many more times.
Super fun and an easy trip from Charlotte. It's running super fast right now and they must've reshaped/reworked a lot of the jumps and features recently because everything felt super nice.