Call Bill Sikovski "The Trailblazer". He first drove from his home in Cottonwood Heights to the central Utah town of Richfield three years ago, after seeing a pro mountain biker raving on Instagram about the newly crafted trails here.
Last year, his buddy Dave Gilbert joined him. And this year they’re back with a third companion, Ben Ellis. Over the decades, the friends have sought out little-known towns surrounded by epic mountain biking trails.
It was Moab in the 1990s, when the town had just a few food joints to pair with its now world-renown miles of slickrock. Next came the Colorado town of Fruita, which 20 years ago was a whisper of the mountain biking Mecca it has become.
Next up: Richfield.
“These new places that spring up in Utah and Colorado and around the Rockies are awesome,” Ellis said, “if you get there before the crowds—before anybody else finds it."
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