15km intermediate scenic gravel and singletrack loop from Magaliesburg village — the charming weekend destination village on the southern side of the Magaliesberg range near the Gauteng border offers beautiful foothills riding on gravel roads and connecting singletrack through some of the most scenic terrain in the Magaliesberg.
Easy 10km gravel ride from Mahikeng — North West Province’s capital city (known historically as Mafeking, site of the famous Boer War siege) offers accessible gravel road riding through the dry Bushveld surrounding the capital, with the Mahikeng Game Reserve and the city’s historical sites in the broader riding context.
18km intermediate gravel loop through the Madibeng area north of the Magaliesberg — the Madibeng Local Municipality covering Brits and the Hartbeespoort Dam’s northern catchment offers farm road riding through mixed Bushveld and the rocky Magaliesberg foothills terrain on the northern range edge.
Easy 8km Blue Trail at Lion and Safari Park — the shortest of three MTB routes on this Magaliesberg Biosphere game reserve near Hartbeespoort combines 50% gravel road, 30% jeep track and 20% singletrack through a reserve rich in antelope and Bushveld wildlife, within the UNESCO Magaliesberg Biosphere and 40 minutes from Johannesburg.
18km intermediate gravel and farm track ride from Lichtenburg — the 1926 diamond rush boomtown on the central North West plains offers gravel riding through the sunflower and maize farmland surrounding this historically significant agricultural town with the flat Highveld horizon in every direction.
Easy 18km savanna gravel ride through the Lehurutshe area — a rural North West community near the Botswana border corridor between Zeerust and Mafikeng offers gravel road riding through the dry savanna and thornveld of the western North West Province on easy terrain with the open flat landscape of the Botswana border zone.
12km advanced full Kruin loop at Mountain Sanctuary Park — the complete Magalies Monster race circuit through the privately owned nature reserve deep in the Magaliesberg, described as ‘not for the faint-hearted’ and the signature mountain singletrack challenge in North West Province.
10km advanced Kruin (Summit) Route at Mountain Sanctuary Park — a privately owned nature reserve deep in the Magaliesberg mountains that forms part of the Magalies Monster race circuit, with 12km of difficult mountain singletrack accessible on the full loop but the 10km Kruin option giving access to the summit terrain.
20km intermediate gravel and track loop from Koster — a small North West town on the R24 at the foot of the Magaliesberg’s western end offers gravel riding with the characteristic rocky quartzite foothills of the ancient mountain range providing more topographic interest than the flat plateau terrain to the north.
15km intermediate gravel loop from Klerksdorp — the southern North West Province’s largest city in the gold-mining Witwatersrand Far West Rand has gravel roads through the semi-rural farmland and reclaimed mine land surrounding the city, with the rehabilitated mine dump landscape and the open Highveld plains as a distinctive riding environment.