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The Peak District: A Personal Collection of Tracks and Trails

Mountain biking in the Peak District is a transformative experience. It’s a landscape of dramatic contrasts, where the brutal, gritstone technicality of the Dark Peak meets the rolling, high speed limestone plateaus of the White Peak. After years of navigating these hills, getting caught in sudden mists, and discovering the hidden lines that don’t always show up on a standard OS map, we have finally compiled our personal library of GPX files.

This isn’t just another database of “top-rated” segments. On many platforms, routes are often chased for the sake of novelty or “the latest and greatest” trends. We’ve taken a different approach. This collection is a curated history of our time in the saddle—a digital logbook of the loops that kept us coming back season after season.

Find Your Own Line

We’ve made the interface simple: click a route name to preview the elevation profile and terrain, then download the GPX file directly to your device. However, we offer one caveat: mountain biking is deeply subjective. What we consider a classic, technical descent might feel like a grueling rock crawl to someone else. What we find to be a meditative, scenic climb, another rider might find tedious. We aren’t claiming these are the “best” trails in the world only that they are the ones we love.

Whether you’re looking for a punishing day out over Jacob’s Ladder or a sweeping tour of the Hope Valley, these files are a starting point. Use them as a guide, but don’t be afraid to deviate. After all, the best part of the Peak isn’t just following a line on a screen it’s finding the ride that speaks to you.