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MOUNTAIN BIKING IN ITS PUREST FORM

Ridgeline offers fully-guided and shuttle-assisted mountain bike holidays and adventures in the epic Tuscan Apennines and Apuan Alps in Northern Italy. From Summer Riding weeks and multi-centered Backcountry Apennines adventure tours, to coastal Winter Enduro camps we are your destination to explore mountainbiking in its purest form.

Ridgeline is situated in between three totally diverse and unique mountain ranges that offer an amazing playground from natural and technically challenging riding to more adrenaline filled purpose built tracks. Our trail network ranges from epic backcountry and high alpine trails to our local rollercoaster shuttle nirvana right on our doorstep and above the coast of Pisa.

Ridgeline, proudly supported by the Santa Cruz PayDirt Fund

Since 2019 we have been working on a new vision for the area we operate in, and we are unbelievably proud that Santa Cruz supports RIDGELINE in our ambition to create a new public access trail network across the Garfagnana. Santa Cruz are providing the seed funding for our project and have committed to sponsor a team of dedicated trail builders through PayDirt.

Our goal is to create a public access trail network in collaboration with local governments and the national parks. We want to get more outdoor enthusiasts to experience this unique spot of Europe and the MTB playground it has to offer. We believe that mountain biking is a force for good and will continue to generate positive impacts for the local communities of the Garfagnana when managed sustainably. Read more about our future ambition in our blog.

Founded by Santa Cruz Bicycles in 2019, PayDirt funds recreational mountain bike trail opportunities worldwide. To see a list of current PayDirt projects or to apply for a future grant, please visit www.santacruzbicycles.com/paydirt.

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Best mountain biking week I've ever experienced!

KevenUK
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Real Mountain Biking in its purest form. Looking forward to coming back!

JayGermany
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Not just another MTB holiday, a true adventure!

RachelUK
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Best trails in Tuscany!

WolfgangGermany
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Endless trails, authentic food, great company, can’t wait to come back!

DennisNetherlands
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Best place I have ridden to date!

RhysUK
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Expectations reset! The new bar is set! I’ll be back!

PaulUK
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Trip number 3 and it keeps getting better!

JulesUK

APENNINES

The Apennines are the backbone of Italy’s mountain range and are our destination for unforgettable and epic backcountry days out. Topping out at well over 2000m, the high alpine meadow slopes are perfect for big views and flowing trails. From open, never ending ridgeline runs down to rollercoaster trails in the valley, it really is a complete destination.

APUAN ALPS

The famed marble mountains with their towering rocky and extreme faces, overlooking the Mediterranean, will test your skills in the most demanding yet beautiful of settings. With sea views, dedicated shuttle runs and remote wilderness riding, these mountains make up a large part of our summer and winter riding days.

CALCI

Calci, the unknown and untapped gem of the locals. Full of purpose built gnarly descents littered with jumps, drops, berms and an artisan beer brewery at the end of the trails where Ridgeline is based for our winter camps! Close to the coast and only 20 minutes away from the airport of Pisa, Calci’s characteristic Mediterranean scrub terrain provides perfect riding conditions all year long.

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Flow trails you can find anywhere, but at Ridgeline you get truly gnarly big mountain enduro adventures.

Freeride
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You get the feeling you know the trails, they are just like the trails at Lake Garda or Vinschgau, just always the little better.

World of MTB
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If you like your mountain biking to be raw, epic, challenging and jaw-dropping, Ridgeline need to be on your radar.

Mountain Bike Rider MBR
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To describe the Tuscan trails that Ridgeline call home as "stunning" would simply not do them justice.

TF Tuned

OUR PACKAGES / YOUR HOLIDAYS

Summer
Riding

Enjoy big days out in the stunning backcountry of the Tuscan Apennines with endless descending on remote natural single trails mixed with gravity filled descents on purpose-built tracks.

BACKCOUNTRY
ADVENTURE

A multi-centerd 4×4 supported pure adventure tour of the undiscovered side of Northern Tuscany in the stunning backcountry of the evergreen Garfagnana to the famous Marble Mountains above the coast.

Backcountry
Center Based

A fully customisable mix of some of the best days of our Adventure Backcountry riding in both of our two mountain ranges, but with the comfort of staying at our main base and one night in a remote mountain rifugio.

Winter
Enduro

For those who want to train for the next race season, or simply want to get away from their muddy home trails in the winter months, we offer Enduro madness on the trails of the Toscano Enduro Series.

E-BIKING

Find out more about our dedicated E-Biking offer, the trail network we have specifically developed to make most of what the new E-Bikes are capable of, and check-out our fleet of latest Santa Cruz E-Bikes available for you to test.

Sample a first taste of our riding and playground in this video teaser.

We organised and hosted the film production for the launch of ABUS’ Modrop helmet and took Steffi Marth and Max Schumann out on our backcountry trails.

Besides the packages you can find here on our website, we are always open to customise trips for you. Just get in touch with us at info@ridgeline.bike and we can create your personalised package, choosing from and mixing our different mountain ranges of the Apennines, Apuan Alps, Calci or our new destination Elba.