15km intermediate singletrack through the Emalahleni Nature Reserve — an accessible urban bushveld reserve in the Witbank coal-mining city with 11 mapped Trailforks trails, game viewing and indigenous bushveld singletrack close to the Mpumalanga Highveld’s major industrial centre.
28km advanced forest traverse from Sabie to Graskop — one of Mpumalanga’s great point-to-point forest rides links two of the Panorama Route’s most beloved towns through the dense plantation and indigenous forest of the Escarpment on technical singletrack with waterfall and valley views throughout.
25km intermediate gravel and farm track ride through the Crocodile Valley around Hazyview — the subtropical Lowveld farmland between the Kruger National Park and the Drakensberg Escarpment is intensely productive and lushly green, with mango and banana plantations, tropical fruit farms and the warm Lowveld character of Mpumalanga’s gateway tourism town.
Easy 10km gravel trail loop at Bourke’s Luck Potholes — the most visited natural attraction in the Blyde River Canyon reserve, where the Blyde and Treur rivers meet in a series of extraordinary cylindrical potholes carved by river action, is the starting point for a short gravel riding circuit in the canyon reserve.
35km advanced singletrack at Misty Valley MTB Park near Machadodorp — one of Mpumalanga’s leading dedicated trail centres on the Escarpment with purpose-built singletrack, significant elevation change and the misty Escarpment atmosphere that gives this exceptional venue its name.
25km intermediate reserve loop at Ohrigstad Dam Nature Reserve — between Ohrigstad and the historical village of Pilgrim’s Rest in the Northern Escarpment, this reserve offers gravel road riding through Big 5 territory with sweeping Northern Escarpment views and the lush subtropical bushveld of the Lowveld transition zone.
22km intermediate gravel and forest road from the historical village of Pilgrim’s Rest — South Africa’s only fully preserved 19th-century gold-rush town is the starting point for forest rides into the indigenous forest surrounding this National Monument village in the heart of Mpumalanga’s Panorama Route.
18km intermediate gravel and forest path ride to God’s Window — one of the world’s most celebrated viewpoints sits on the Escarpment rim 1,730m above sea level with a 1,000m vertical drop to the Lowveld below and a view that stretches to the Kruger National Park and Mozambique on clear days.
22km intermediate singletrack at York Adventure Club / MTO Lowveld near White River — 122 mapped Trailforks trails make this one of Mpumalanga’s largest accessible trail networks in the commercial forestry land east of White River, built and maintained by the passionate local MTB community.
20km intermediate gravel loop from the famous Sudwala Caves — the world’s oldest known cave system (240 million years) on the Escarpment hillside above the Crocodile River is the starting point for gravel road riding through the Escarpment bushveld with valley views and the extraordinary geological heritage of this ancient landscape.