We sell day passes to ride Camp Tamarancho’s singletrack for $5.00.

Drop by and get your one-day pass and it’s a double win: ride the 9-mile singletrack loop around this amazing private property legally, and help maintain the trail system.

Camp Tamarancho is a 9+ mile singletrack on private property outside Fairfax, built by the Bicycle Trails Council of Marin. You must have a pass (annual or day) to ride this property.

Sunshine Bikes is a longtime, proud supporter of the trail system at Camp Tamarancho, which is owned and operated by Marin Council, Boy Scouts of America.

This beautiful 480 acre hilly, forested property lies above Fairfax just on the east side of White’s Hill and has been encircled, over time, with a 9+ mile singletrack course, perfect for XC riding.  Geared or singlespeed, rigid or with moderate suspension, you’ll be smiling the whole way.  Long travel bikes are overkill here.

This is a shared bike/hike course, please bear in mind there are lots of scouting activities up at Tamarancho, so beware that sometimes trails may be closed, even though the events are going on in the middle of camp.

• Tamarancho map (PDF)
• How to get to Tamarancho from Fairfax (map, PDF)

The course is made up of the following 6 trails:

• Alchemist (the connector from Iron Springs Road, the road up to camp)
• Goldman (you ‘T’ into this atop Alchemist)
• Serpentine
• Wagon Wheel (lies outside BSA property, belongs to Marin Open Space)
• B-17 (there is a legend about the plane that crashed in the 1940’s)
• Broken Dam

Tamarancho Rules:

• BIKES MUST STAY ON SINGLETRACK; you are not allowed inside the center of camp.
• Be polite and courteous to all other trail users, always.
• Uphill riders always get right of way from other bikes.
• Bikes always yield to hikers.

The people you have to thank for negotiating and building these trails and the bridges on them, and maintaining them, are the Bicycle Trails Council of Marin, and the Forest Knolls Freewheelers.  Our deepest gratitude goes to them for creating such a gem.

You can also buy annual Friends Of Tamarancho passes from the Boy Scouts online here.