River Valley Cycling

Supporting Cycling In and Around Fredericton

Winterbike Grooming Plan 2026

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Riders!

Your Winterbike membership supports trail grooming at several locations in the Fredericton area. Here’s our tentative plan for MVP, Islandview, and Woolastook.

Winter riding is one of the highlights of the season, and our grooming plan aims to keep as much terrain open as conditions allow. All winter grooming is fully dependent on snowfall, temperature, and trail conditions, and plans may shift accordingly throughout the season.

MVP

Our goal at MVP is to keep as much riding open as possible, snow permitting. If conditions cooperate, we plan to groom:

  • Main MVP network
  • Monkey Business
  • Pinball
  • Slash n Berm
  • D-Track Climb

Island View

Exact groomed trails at Island View will depend on snow depth and conditions.
In past seasons, this has included:

  • Snake
  • Intro
  • Hansel & Gretel
  • Power Line Loop

Trail selection may vary based on snowfall amounts. Please check for updates before heading out.

Woolastook

As with our other locations, Woolastook grooming plans also depend heavily on snowfall. Each winter looks a little different, and trail choices may shift based on conditions.
The aspiration is to groom Mammoth if we receive sufficient snow. Last season included:

  • Wooly Loop
  • Missing Link to the lookout
  • Split Rail
  • Bartlett’s Meadow

📣 Stay Updated

Conditions can change quickly. For the most up-to-date grooming information, closures, and ride-ready announcements, follow River Valley Cycling on Facebook.

Thank you to our volunteers and riders for your patience, flexibility, and support — winter riding only works because of this community!

SHREDTOBER FESTIVAL – Oct 25/26

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Event Alert!

  • Woolastook Park trails
  • 2 full days of crisp fall riding 🍁🍁🍁
  • Enduro race 🔥🔥🔥🔥
  • Free coaching sessions
  • Group rides for all levels
  • Industry tents and demos
  • Food & Music

RVC is working on the biggest season-ender anyone’s ever seen. We plan to turn our annual celebration ride into an entire weekend mountain bike festival this year.

Mark your calendars and save this date! More details to come.

RVC’s Wooly 4 2025

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Sunday, September 7, 2025

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This long-running favourite event is about having a good time. Race solo, or as a team, at a hammer or chill pace. The Wooly trails have seen epic growth over the last several years, and we’re excited to once again be showcasing a couple of brand new trails in this year’s course! The event will suit a wide range of skill levels. The course will include both hand-built and machine-built trails. Racers complete as many laps as they can in the allotted time, solo (must be 19+) or as relay teams of 2 or 3. Or just do as many laps as you feel like riding, and hang out at the start/finish cheering and socializing. It’s all fun.

As usual, there will be great draw prizes from our amazing community bike shops, Explore Velo and Radical Edge, refreshments and swag from Trailway Brewing, and Willie’s Sausages will be on site serving burgers, sausages, and veggie items.

Race HQ, the start/finish, and parking will be in the Fox’s Den. You won’t find it on Google Maps, as it’s not normally open to camping, but HERE are directions from the 102. Basically you’ll follow the campground road all the way around to the campground loops. You’ll pass a set of gates and then a little garbage trailer and then turn left where it’s signed “Fox’s Den.” Race day, it will be signed from the park entrance on the south side of the highway to the start/finish and parking.

Categories:

  • Solo Men (must be 19 or older)
  • Solo Women (must be 19 or older)
  • Open Team (members may be of any age and gender)
  • Women’s Team (all members must be women/girls)
  • Youth Team (all members must be 16 or younger)
  • Vintage Team (average team member age 50+)
  • E-bike Participation

*(Solo racers must be 19 or older as of December 31, 2025)

Event Day Schedule:

  • 9:30-10:30 am Registration and plate pickup
  • 11:00 am Race start
  • 3:00 pm cut-off to begin final lap
  • 3:30 pm awards and draw prizes

Race Registration Fees:

  • $40 until 6pm on Saturday, August 24 or on site race day for $50
  • If you are not a Velo NB member or UCI license holder, there is an additional fee of $10 for a day license
Trailforks.com

Other important info:

  • There is no potable water on site. We’ll have some bottled water, but do yourself and the environment a favour and plan ahead
  • Bathroom facilities are a rustic outhouse and a Port-o-John
  • There will be space around the start/finish for spectators and team tents
  • If you prefer to sit somewhere other than on the grass, bring a portable chair
  • The event runs rain or shine
  • Parking is in the campground loop near the start/finish. Pull into a site or clearing or pull up on the side of the road where there’s room, don’t block people in or park on any tents
  • Want to stay at the park? Ask us about unserviced camping at the Fox’s Den loop adjacent to the course 

FAQ

Is the course marked for pre-riding?
You can find the course above on Trailforks and here on Strava. “On the ground,” the course is lightly flagged in pink and orange. Meaning, there are flags around turns and intersections. If the flag is on the right, the next turn will be a right turn. The course will be signed and mostly taped Saturday.

Can youth participate?
There’s no minimum age to participate on a team. For youth who wouldn’t be confident completing the course on their own, one option is for a parent to team up and ride with them. Your team will only get credit for relay laps – i.e. if you ride a lap together, the timing system will only register one lap.

How serious are you about the 19+ rule for the solo categories?
Very serious. However, if your kid is a Junior (i.e. 17 or 18 by the end of the calendar year), they can solo with your consent and a recommendation from a coach.

Where can I set up my team tent?
There will be room set aside for team tents near the start/finish and feed zone. Ask our volunteer parking attendants to direct you when you arrive.

Is there an e-bike category?
E-bikes are welcome on a “participation” basis, meaning that no times or ranking will be recorded for e-bike participants. If this works well, we will look at adding a competitive e-bike category for next year.

What is your weather policy?
The Wooly 4 runs rain or shine, but would be suspended or cancelled if there’s lightning. In the event of inclement weather such as poor air quality, extreme heat, or adverse course conditions, the event could be modified.

I have more questions!
No problem. Ask your question in the discussion in the Facebook event, or get us on Facebook messenger, or use the contact us.

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Multi-year Woolastook refresh in the home stretch.

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We’ve shared lots of progress updates over the past 2 years and it looks like we are ready to share the the big picture. This is the result of RVC’s effort to build a brag-worthy trail network that will anchor Woolstook on the map for another whole generation of local mountain bikers. While a trail network like this is never really done the major construction we imagined with our master trails plan is now mostly complete.

Woolastook now has:

  • 20.7 km of trail at a range of grades
  • 10 hub junctions designed to make navigation in-woods easier (fewer intersections)
  • Stacked loop options so you can choose your adventure and distance
  • A beautiful backcountry – accessible with a proper climber – including a flow descent – and a view!
  • A name for every trail – we landed on “Obsession” for the flow line down from the deck

Here’s the new trailhead map that’s getting installed soon:

Click the map to download a geo-referenced high-res .pdf … and we’re on Trailforks as always

This trail project embodied local success at its very best:

Grassroots club organizing. Nearby towns signing letters of support. Local volunteers putting in sweat. A phenomenal local bike shop partner. A hometown hero running the network design. Two Maritime professional trail building companies. Lumber from a local sawmill a stone-throw away. Signage from a local print shop. Local businesses stepping forward to help. Secure access to public land. Government funding a project to benefit the local community. This feels good.

Aside from the map our main trailhead sign is going to include plates to give credit to all of the volunteers who played a big role in making this place the gem that it is now. Work isn’t going to stop – and despite the best build quality these trails are going to need maintenance – but we’re ready to call our project successfully finished. We hope you like the result.

On to more big things.

New Flow Trail in Woolastook

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Riders – we are opening another flow trail. This time, it’s in Woolastook’s front-country and you won’t have to crank out twenty-one switchbacks to get your lap down.

A few weeks ago Kodiak Trial Works returned to Wooly and started digging with an aim to carve out a descent that will run from the “summit deck” to the trailhead. Today we are ready to tear down the caution tape and open up the first section of the trail. While things may still be settling, we think it’s ready to ride down to the intersection with Summit trail. Have a look at these progress pics and go catch a session in the week of sultry weather we have coming up!

For now, the trail will keep it’s temporary “T-8” designation from our Woolastook Master Plan. We’ll wait and see how the rest of it feels before giving it a name. It will be a moderate (blue) grade that it will keep through the rest of the build and it will also be a downhill-only direction. Sorry, because of the expected speeds and the jumps this one isn’t suitable for hiking or trail-running.

T-8 on Trailforks.com

While we are at it… there’s a few other updates we’ve recently made to clean up the map for Woolastook park. All of these updates are live on Trailforks now so update your app if you use it:

  • Split Rail has now been finished all the way to where it joins with Kelly’s Cove. Thanks Bev! We’ve updated the entire length of this trail to give it a ‘green’ grade.
  • Rock N’ Roll, The Otterbahn, and Owl Be Back are all new opened in the last few months.
  • We’ve renamed the trail built around the Fox’s Den to ‘Silver Fox‘!
  • A few old legacy trails are decommissioned (as per our plan). These include Dave’s Drop, Bev’s Knoll, Mel’s Fav, Rough Start, and Snakes N’ Ladders. These were great trails for their day but they’ve been retired to make room for streamlined new trail junctions and other modern design improvements.

We hope you love riding the new T-8 and the completed Split Rail! These projects wouldn’t have been possible without the generous funding from the Canada Community Building Fund AND from the heroic quantity of volunteer effort that has poured into this park since our project began. If you love Woolastook, as well as the other trail systems we support, it’s not too late to contribute. RVC’s 2024 memberships are still available! Plan for a riding as the leaves change colour and the air turns crisp.

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