Plan your Mountain Bike adventure in the Atlas Mountain
Atlas Mountain Trails provides Mountainbikers with the information and contacts to organize your self supported Trans-Atlas adventures. We work in close cooperation with a network of local tourism professionals across the Atlas mountains to provide updated information and the most authentic experience.
Atlas Mountain Trails currently includes over 1.000 kilometers and 30,000 meters in elevation gain of mountain trails in the Moroccan High and Middle Atlas mountain ranges. The tours are organized in five sections which include crossings over key mountain ranges as well as round trips. The regions are very diverse, ranging from the Atlantic coast to the Middle Atlas in the East and passing through some of the most breathtaking mountain passes of the High Atlas.
Our aim is to share our experiences in the most comprehensible and user-friendly way, to allow you to plan your unique MTB adventure. We provide you with GPS tracks in partnership with Komoot on our Community Page, as well as logbooks and backgrounds on the Atlas mountains and the Amazigh people.
Atlas Mountain Trails is built on a community of local guides and tourism professionals who keep the information updated and further develop the network of trails. Through this site you will be able to get in touch with that community, organize your accommodation (often local homestays) and get valuable support.
Our aim is to share our experiences in the most comprehensible and user-friendly way, to allow you to plan your unique MTB adventure. We provide you with GPS tracks in partnership with Komoot on our Community Page, as well as logbooks and backgrounds on the Atlas mountains and the Amazigh people.
Atlas Mountain Trails is built on a community of local guides and tourism professionals who keep the information updated and further develop the network of trails. Through this site you will be able to get in touch with that community, organize your accommodation (often local homestays) and get valuable support.
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the conceptAtlas Mountain Trails follows a community based approach that aims to connect the MTB community with our network of local tourism professionals in the Atlas mountains. The mix of content on this page with useful contacts provide MTB adventurers from all around the world with the necessary information to plan their self-organized trip. In the remote mountain valleys of the featured trails, tourism is often a rare source of income and economic development that provides a real opportunity for youth to develop economic activities, while preserving their Amazighl cultural heritage. We aim to promote this type of tourism and economic and cultural development, far from the beaten tracks.
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Promoting Local TourismAtlas Mountain Trails contribution is to collect and make available to the wider international and Moroccan public a network of trails and the tourism cooperatives and professionals that work independently along the trails in the different regions of the Atlas: Al Haouz, Tishka, Ait Bougmez, Tessaout, Ait Atta, Kalaat Mgouna, Demname, to Taza, Bouiblane and Bou Naceur. The objective is to support this network of local tourism professionals and community of riders for the Atlas Mountain Trails to grow, creating economic opportunities through an alternative form of tourism and to share the beauty of the Atlas and the Amazigh culture.
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Cultures & Landscapes
From far away the Atlas appears to have been created by giants playing in a sandbox. Piles of big stones and boulders, deep valleys, washed by time, winds and snow. Once you venture into one of the valleys you will be surprised how diverse the landscape really is. And the diversity has a clear signature from the Amazigh people living there and shaping the mountains and valleys for thousands of years. One of the oldest and most impressive terrace farming systems can be found on the steep Atlas slopes, as well as ancient water irrigation channels (Seguias) that became part of the landscape. Water is managed through a local governance system that people agreed upon through the centuries. The decision on what crops to plant on each of the terraces is made by every family and the rich agro-biodiversity reaches from fruit trees (often walnuts, apples, almonds, cherries) to all kinds of grain, vegetables and medicinal plants.
Another characteristic of the Atlas are the “Agdals”, the grazing grounds for sheep and goats and used collectively by partly nomadic shepherds The practice of moving livestock from the lowlands in winter to the highlands in summer and back again is called Transhumance and is an essential component of Amazigh life and its biodiversity
Another characteristic of the Atlas are the “Agdals”, the grazing grounds for sheep and goats and used collectively by partly nomadic shepherds The practice of moving livestock from the lowlands in winter to the highlands in summer and back again is called Transhumance and is an essential component of Amazigh life and its biodiversity
