Lost Valley

Lost Valley


Weldon Spring has a really cool trail named Lost Valley. It is about half the distance of what Klondike is for me, because I live in Weldon Spring. It is located right off of highway 94 on the right kind of hidden so really look for it after the big pile of rocks. Pull into the parking lot and get ready for a decent ride. I just want to warn you right now that the trail starts out really slow and catches you off guard after a long ride up a hill. I went out to Lost Valley with a friend of mine who had been there before and we ended up going against all flow that was on the trail that day. There are no signs so I don’t really know if there was a wrong or right way to go, but who cares, right? This trail is actually more fun than hard. I can’t say much more than that for when we got to the top there was just a lot of squiggly paths to follow. It makes it more fun when you bypass the actual trail and ride straight down the steep hills, which I always end up doing. My ADD kicks in and I get to thinking that little hills are no fun. Bigger is always better when biking off road. Lost Valley is actually similar to the Devil’s Ice Box trail head in Columbia, Missouri. I’ll get to that trail later in my upcoming posts. This Lost Valley is fun for beginners and semi-intermediate riders. While traveling over ant hills and single track, you stumble across rock and streams that really makes this trail fun and scenic for anyone who can peddle up a hill. At the end of this trail is an old driveway that can give you some awesome speed if you peddle hard. Just make sure your wheels are tight, or you’ll end up eating the asphalt. That small road turns back into grassland and back to the parking lot. It is a short trail, but worth the ride because of the location and distance. Check Lost Valley out!