30km advanced mountain and gravel trail through the Nkomazi wilderness area of southern Mpumalanga — the remote mountain terrain of the Barberton foothills between the Makhonjwa Mountains and the Swaziland border offers serious advanced riding through one of the most wild and under-explored landscapes in the province.
15km intermediate gravel loop to the Three Rondavels — South Africa’s most photographed canyon formation, three massive cylindrical rock towers rising from the Blyde River Canyon floor, is the centrepiece of a gravel road loop on the canyon rim with the defining views of the world’s third-deepest canyon.
Easy 12km lake loop at Lake Umuzi near Secunda — a popular outdoor recreation lake in the industrial Mpumalanga Highveld with stocked fishing dams, sunset vistas and an accessible gravel path around the dam shoreline ideal for relaxed recreational riding close to one of Mpumalanga’s major industrial towns.
15km intermediate forest singletrack at MTO Paradise Falls near Sabie — part of the extensive MTO Forestry Sabie trail network with 4 dedicated mapped trails, this loop combines plantation and indigenous forest singletrack with access to the Paradise Falls waterfall feature in the Sabie forest system.
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.