Ten ideas for MTB trips through Spain

BTT routes by stages to enjoy the outdoors as you deserve

Have you ever considered dedicating your vacation to take a bicycle trip through Spain? Make a stage route only suitable for Mountain bike and forget about planes, trains and subways. Go much further than with any other means of transportation.

Leave behind the monstrous access roads to the cities and escape the noise and smells of traffic jams. Follow one cycle route May it take you to where the wild animals graze peacefully.

Pass through small towns that preserve their traditions and the essence of a life that happens in harmony with nature. Walk through its cobbled streets, have a coffee with your neighbors, enjoy local products that really taste what they should taste like: authenticity, time and dedication. Enjoy of sustainable tourism purer in the form of cycling. In form of bicycle trips through Spain.

BTT route by stages in the Pyrenees - Tracks del Aneto

Truly disconnect from the fast-paced routine and leave the watch on the bedside table before embarking on the trip. No Strava-type applications or obsessing over segments and times.

In a good mountain bike stage route, the spectacular nature of the terrain and the surroundings are enough as motivation.

Arriving at your destination every day and storing in your memory what you experienced on each day of bike travel They are the only challenges.

A hot shower, a cold beer and a dinner in the company of someone who understands what you are experiencing, the only trophies you will want at the end of each stage of your journey. BTT route.

Organized and self-guided bike trips through Spain

In Spain, there are thousands of exciting options to do mountain bike trips through Spain. We propose you ten routes by stages so you can choose the one that best suits you based on your physical fitness and level of experience with the bike.

all these MTB routes neighborhoods, are the organized and self-guided bicycle trips. Which means you will roll with Total freedom, alone or with your friends, but with the certainty of following the correct route and the comfort of not having to carry saddlebags or luggage. At each end of the stage, your luggage will be waiting for you in a hotel for cyclists with Bikefriendly quality seal.

Aneto Tracks - MTB route by stages in the Aragonese Pyrenees

You won't have to take care of design the route nor of manage reservations and every day you will receive instructions, tips and tricks to face the next stage in the best possible way. Things as basic as knowing where you can find water to refill your bottles are crucial when it comes to take a mountain bike trip. and with these Bikefriendly tripsThere will always be someone on the other end of the phone.

BTT routes by stages in the Pyrenees

Ordesa BTT Tracks

Route by stages in the Aragonese Pyrenees

Ordesa MTB tracks by stages

Ordesa Tracks It was the first stage route designed by Bikefriendly and the one that identifies us. This track runs through the Central Pyrenees traversing La Jacetania, Alto Gállego and the Sobrarbe region in a MTB route of three, four or five days.

With departure and arrival at Pony, headquarters of Bikefriendly, you will travel through a beautiful piece of the Aragonese Pyrenees: 255 kilometers crossing demanding tracks and fun paths to accumulate more than 7.250 meters of elevation gain.

If you opt for this bike trip in the Pyrenees, you will never forget the solitary crest from the Erata refuge or the endless climb from Broto to the Ordesa viewpoints.

  • Distance: 255 km
  • Elevation: + 7.250 m elevation
  • Recommended stages: between 4 and 5 stages
  • Physical difficulty: High
  • Technical difficulty: Medium

You can see here all the Ordesa Tracks route information.

Aneto BTT Tracks

Route by stages in La Ribagorza and Sobrarbe

La cycle route Aneto Tracks it will permit you to travel by bicycle through the regions of Ribagorza and Sobrarbe while you play on the fun trails and paths of two mountain bike centers emblematic of the Aragonese Pyrenees: Zero Zone y Pure Pyrenees.

Nothing more and nothing less than 235 kilometers of route and 6.600 meters of accumulated positive slope in a route that we recommend doing in five stages to be able to enjoy the path without crushing your body excessively.

Video summary of the BTT route by stages of Bikefriendly Tracks del Aneto
  • Distance: 235 km
  • Elevation: + 6.600 m elevation
  • Recommended stages: between 4 and 5 stages
  • Physical difficulty: High
  • Technical difficulty: Medium

You can see here all the information on the route by stages Tracks del Aneto.

Monte Perdido BTT Tracks

Route by stages between Ordesa and Posets Maladeta

Monte Perdido Tracks It is another spectacular mountain bike stage route through the Pyrenees which can be done in three or four days. Perfect to disconnect and test yourself in record time.

This BTT route in the Pyrenees It will take you to explore the limits of the National Park of Ordesa and Monte Perdido and the Posets Maladeta Natural Park. You will climb peaks of more than 2.700 meters high and travel a vertiginous aerial path, enjoying the view of spectacular lakes and mountain passes.

Video summary of the BTT route by stages of Bikefriendly Tracks of Monte Perdido
  • Distance: 197 km
  • Elevation: + 5.900 m elevation
  • Recommended stages: between 4 and 5 stages
  • Physical difficulty: High
  • Technical difficulty: Medium

You can see here all the information on the route by stages Tracks del Monte Perdido.

Tracks Zona Zero

Route by stages in the Sierra de Guara

La BTT route by stages Tracks Zona Zero It is a slightly more affordable option but just as impressive for travel by MTB. This time, we invite you to tour the Pre-Pyrenees by mountain bike and become aware of the problem of depopulation.

This route in stages will take you through fortresses, churches and abandoned towns and to discover the Natural Park of the Sierra and Canyons of Guara marketing in all its glory.

Tracks Zona Zero BTT by stages
  • Distance: 246 km
  • Elevation: + 5.933 m elevation
  • Recommended stages: between 4 and 5 stages
  • Physical difficulty: Medium
  • Technical difficulty: Medium

You can see here all the route information by stages Tracks Zona Zero.

Transpyrenean mountain biking

The great route through stages of the Pyrenees

There is no biker who has not dreamed of doing the Transpyrenean mountain biking. What if this was the year to fulfill your purpose? 12 stages MTB route crossing the Pyrenean mountain range from east to west, from the Costa Brava to the Atlantic on a mountain bike, touring the Catalan Pyrenees, the Aragonese Pyrenees, Navarra and part of the Basque Country and visiting hundreds of small towns.

Enjoying authentic gastronomy that changes depending on the area and spectacular views over the sea and from the heights of the mountain range... You can do it all at once... or propose to do a little piece of the Trans-Pyrenees by mountain bike every year. We take care of all the procedures, reservations and luggage. You just enjoy and pedal.

The Transpyrenean mountain bike
  • Distance: 886,75 km
  • Elevation: + 20.712 m elevation
  • Recommended stages: 12 stages
  • Physical difficulty: High
  • Technical difficulty: Medium

You can see here all the information on the Transpyrenean mountain bike stage route.

MTB trips through La Rioja, Navarra, Soria and Galicia

La Rioja MTB Tracks

Route by stages in La Rioja

La Rioja is, and will continue to be, one of the best destinations to enjoy a bicycle trip in Spain. And with this stage route for MTB, Tracks La RiojaAt Bikefriendly we suggest that you live it and immerse yourself fully in this land that smells of wine and dedication. With care and tradition. To quality and detail.

Roll through the regions of La Rioja Alta and La Rioja Alavesa allows you to enjoy the panoramic view of the large expanses of vineyards from the top of the Sierra de Cantabria and the Ezcaray valley.

try the young wines characteristic of La Rioja Alavesa and the famous Reserve and Grand Reserve from La Rioja Alta. Wineries that compete in spectacularity with the medieval towns that dot this territory. A mountain bike trip that offers the opportunity to regain strength in an enclave as luxurious as a restaurant with two Michelin stars in Ezcaray and to enjoy another day of the pinchos on the legendary Laurel Street in Logroño.

  • Distance: 231 km
  • Elevation difference: + 5.971 m elevation gain
  • Recommended stages: 5 stages
  • Physical difficulty: Medium
  • Technical difficulty: Medium

You can see here all the information on the BTT route by stages Tracks La Rioja.

Irati BTT Tracks

Route by stages in Navarra

The MTB route by stages Irati's Tracks It is the opportunity to discover this magical land of ancient forests in the best possible way: a mountain bike trip in stages that will take you to know Roncesvalles and the Irati Jungle by mountain bike throughout four stages.

In the year 2019, our friends from Pedaela Challenge They counted on Bikefriendly Tours to organize a Solidarity famtrip in Tracks de Irati and this is the video summary of the experience.

  • Distance: 205 km
  • Elevation: + 5.580 m elevation
  • Recommended stages: 4 stages
  • Physical difficulty: Medium
  • Technical difficulty: Medium

You can see here all the information on the BTT route by stages Tracks de Irati.

Tracks Costa da Morte

BTT route by stages in Galicia

Imagine going through the Galician cliffs by bike while the Atlantic roars as it explodes against the rock. Wind over the coast from Finisterre to the Sanctuary of Saint Hadrian do Mar.

Cresting along the edge of the Peninsula in a wild and rugged land, sharing sections of the path with the pilgrims of the Camino de Santiago who reach Fisterra.

With the MTB route by stages Tracks Costa da Morte, you will see the barnacles at work and you will witness the daily work in the conger eel drying rooms.

Tracks Costa da Morte - MTB route by stages Galicia
  • Distance: 229 km
  • Elevation: + 4.772 m elevation
  • Recommended stages: 4 or 5 stages
  • Physical difficulty: Medium
  • Technical difficulty: Medium

You can see here all the information on the MTB route by stages Tracks Costa da Morte.

Templarios MTB Tracks

Adventure by stages in Soria

Discover everything the Soria province. Travel this land with Templar Tracksa self-guided MTB route which you can do in 3 or 4 BTT stages.

You will discover some of the most spectacular corners of the province of Soria, such as the Lobos River canyon, Calatañazor, La Fuentona or Urbión peak.

It runs through forests and mountains and rolls along trails and tracks in an adventure that recreates the medieval world: you will see ruins of an Arab castle, pass by mythical battle sites and medieval fortresses.

Templar tracks by stages on mountain bike
  • Distance: 228 km
  • Elevation: + 4.020 m elevation
  • Recommended stages: 3 or 4 stages
  • Physical difficulty: Medium
  • Technical difficulty: Easy

You can see here all the information on the BTT route by stages Tracks de Templarios

The Camino de Santiago by MTB

Options to do the Camino de Santiago by mountain bike

And finally, the most well-known and sought after option by those who are starting out in the world of mountain biking and routes through MTB stages.

Camino de Santiago by mountain bike

Do you want to do the right steps to achieve Compostela? Choose the simplest option Camino de Santiago by mountain bike. It starts in Roncesvalles / Burgos / León and arrives in Santiago in five days by bike but do it with All amenities: sleeping in National Hostels, riding a hotels with charm, in hostels and pensions or in pilgrim hostels to live the authentic pilgrim experience: you choose.

Consultation Here are all the options to do the Camino de Santiago by mountain bike with Bikefriendly and opt for the one that most attracts you. In all options we include luggage transportation, accommodation with breakfast, travel insurance and telephone assistance en route. Do you want to rent bikes or also hire half board in the accommodations? No problem, ask us.

Camino de Santiago del Norte by mountain bike

We also have the option of making the Camino de Santiago del Norte by mountain bike. With this proposal, we start in Avilés and arrive in Santiago in five stages. You can also choose between sleeping in hostels and pensions or in hotels and charming houses.

Via de la Plata by mountain bike

On the contrary, to do the Vía de la Plata by mountain bike we recommend seven stages to get there from Salamanca to Santiago de Compostela on mountain bike. Check here all the information and prices of the trip.

Via de la Plata - Salamanca

And if all this is not enough for you and you are looking for another type of trip... Check out our catalog of trips through Spain by road bike.

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