Minnesota Off-Road Cyclists (MORC) is a non-profit mountain biking club dedicated to gaining and maintaining trails in Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

. MORC has approximately 700 members.

About

MORC is dedicated to safeguarding the future of mountain biking in Minnesota through the promotion of responsible riding, establishment and maintenance of mountain biking trails, and preservation of Minnesota's natural resources.

MORC works with local government agencies and land managers to build and maintain environmentally sound and properly built mountain bike

Mountain bike

A mountain bike or mountain bicycle is a bicycle created for off-road cycling. This activity includes traversing of rocks and washouts, and steep declines,...

 trails, sticking as closely to IMBA guidelines as possible.

As of the fall of 2009, MORC entered into a closer relationship with IMBA, becoming one of a small group of official chapters. MORC is now officially known as MORC, a chapter of IMBA.

Mountain Bike Trails

MORC and its chapters maintain a select number of popular mountain bike trails in Minnesota. Here is a brief list of the more popular trails:

• Lebanon Hills
• Murphy Hanrehan
• Theodore Wirth
• Battle Creek
• Minnesota River Bottoms

Publications

MORC publishes a quarterly newsletter titled Off-Road.

Chapters

While MORC no longer has chapters, it continues its support and relations with the following groups:

• BLAST
• Cuyuna Lakes
• Minneapolis Offroad Cycling Advocates (MOCA)
• Mid-Minnesota Cycling Club

External links

• MORC Website
• MORC Twitter Page
• MORC Wiki
• MORC Gallery
• MORC Forums
• MORC MOU with 3RPD
• Minneapolis Parks: Wirth Park
• MOCA