Rattlesnake Bike Park
4478 Camp Welfare Rd, Winnsboro, SC 29180
About
Rattlesnake Bike Park is the closest shuttle-assisted to Charlotte. It's approximately 1-hour outside of Southwest Charlotte in Winnsboro, SC straight down I-77. This park offers a great introduction to bike park riding with plenty of great riding for beginners, fast jump (and other features) lines for seasoned riders, and even some double black features for the expert riders. Very nice facilities, staff, and trails. Highly recommend!
The trails are all accessed at the top of the "mountain" where the shuttle drops you at their facility with food, drinks, tables, and bathrooms. From the the summit, pick your path down the upper mountain, hit a "Mid Mountain Connection" clearing to catch your breath, and then a second trail to reach the bottom at the shuttle pick up.

Trails
Before You Ride
The below are a selection of our favorite trails. More trails are likely available and can be found on the trail map.
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50 Shades of Clay
Tons of speed, tons of jumps. You have to choke up a bit on your speed right from the first series of jumps if the dirt is rolling well. There's an optional road gap, great kicker jump addition, and a couple of step ups. This is a great trail to acclimate to the speed and warm up your jumping legs to get into the bigger stuff.
Mad Hatter
This is great to connect to ~50 Shades of Clay as this feels like an extension of the same flow but with bigger gaps and bigger jumps.
Purgatory
Another great one to connect to 50 Shades of Clay. Features some of the best formed jumps at the park, optional rock gaps that have high visibility to the shuttle passing by (if you're into that sort of thing), and great speed.
Waimea
This is the one you've heard about. HUGE jumps that get progressively bigger as you go down the trail. This starts out on Rock Garden with some nice downhill features (rock garden, jumps, berms) and spits you out into the final run of the beastly jumps. Make sure to Preride these! Kane = 18 FT Ku = 22 FT Pele = 28 FT Lono = 36 FT
Rock Garden
As the name suggests, begins with a rock garden and features great speed and a couple sizeable rock garden gaps.
Voodoo
Another fun little blue downhill line with smaller features and decent speed.
Sabotage
Fun blue with some great speed that'll take you from top to bottom. Some pretty fast drops at the beginning followed by some fast riding through berms and other smaller features.
Venom
Biggest trail here with the most eye-catching feature, the large drop into a HUGE wall ride. The ride is stacked with big features and it's highly visible to the top of the trail system and the shuttles. This is the main focal point when you approach the top of the mountain where the massive wall ride and feeder drop grab your attention. The trail is short but is back-to-back Expert-level features. The trail starts off with a 10-12 foot drop into a mandatory gap shark fin and into the jump-gap-wallride-gap sequence, followed by a massive step down and immediately into a gaint step up. There is another smaller wall ride and into a couple more gap jumps and finally ends with a massive stepup.
Chupacabra
Fun little blue that starts with an optional small jump through a tree. Smaller features that may help you build up confidence to some of the other stuff.
Paradise
Long, flowy green line that is great for warming up the legs or introducing beginners to bike park speed.
Southern Comfort
A silky smooth, flowy machine-built run down the upper half of the mountain. It brings you right into the mid-mountain junction where you can decide how spicy you want the rest of your lap to be.
Home Run
Home Run is a connector green trail that Rock Garden, Waimea, Sabotage, and Venom lead into.
Medusa
Recently entirely reworked and reopened, the upper section is absolute perfection to ride leading to a chill middle section that then leads to some serious gap jumps, with an awesome looking on/off before the last jump. Highly recommend to preride this one before going in.