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Fall Trail
Near Soft Opening 🟢. Photo: WabbitWanderer from London, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

Soft Opening 🟢

Mountain bike area · Canada

Is it worth the trip?

78Good out of 100 for your dates

Home sucks

Best on Wed 4: Rain before today is not known, Air 19 °C

Each day of your trip, out of 100

Mon 2 · 69 out of 100

Trail
Unknown
Rain 2 days
0 mm
Rain
0 mm
Air
17°C

Tue 3 · 69 out of 100

Trail
Unknown
Rain 2 days
0.5 mm
Rain
0 mm
Air
18°C

Wed 4 · 88 out of 100

Trail
Unknown
Rain 2 days
0.5 mm
Rain
0.1 mm
Air
19°C

Thu 5 · 61 out of 100

Trail
Slick
Rain 2 days
9.9 mm
Rain
0 mm
Air
16°C

Fri 6 · 81 out of 100

Trail
Unknown
Rain 2 days
9.9 mm
Rain
0.9 mm
Air
13°C

Sat 7 · 77 out of 100

Trail
Unknown
Rain 2 days
0.9 mm
Rain
0 mm
Air
8°C

Sun 8 · 79 out of 100

Trail
Unknown
Rain 2 days
0.9 mm
Rain
0 mm
Air
10°C

Tap a day for the trail, the rain and the air. Full forecast

Forecast: next 10 days

Full forecast
  1. Sun 169, good
  2. Mon 269, good
  3. Tue 369, good
  4. Wed 488, good
  5. Thu 561, good
  6. Fri 681, good
  7. Sat 777, good
  8. Sun 879, good
  9. Mon 960, good
  10. Tue 1080, good

Full forecast

every day, every number

The score doesn't know trail closures, fallen trees or your skill.

Weather forecast and score for each day at Soft Opening 🟢
DayScoreTrailRain 2 daysRainAir
Sun 1Nov*69, goodUnknown0 mm0 mm16°C
Mon 2Nov*69, goodUnknown0 mm0 mm17°C
Tue 3Nov*69, goodUnknown0.5 mm0 mm18°C
Wed 4Nov*88, goodUnknown0.5 mm0.1 mm19°C
Thu 5Nov61, goodSlick9.9 mm0 mm16°C
Fri 6Nov*81, goodUnknown9.9 mm0.9 mm13°C
Sat 7Nov*77, goodUnknown0.9 mm0 mm8°C
Sun 8Nov*79, goodUnknown0.9 mm0 mm10°C
Mon 9Nov60, goodSlick1.5 mm2.7 mm10°C
Tue 10Nov*80, goodUnknown4.2 mm0 mm10°C

* Rain before today is not known: the forecast starts today, so these days are scored from a dry start and a wet one.

Trail is the soil that morning, from the rain before; rain in mm, air in °C. More

Forecast updated . It refreshes every three hours. Forecast data: ECMWF, DWD, Météo-France and NOAA, served by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Changed by us. Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information.

Map

the area and its town

Each place wears its best day on these dates: green good, amber fair, pale red poor, as the key says.

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About

the place in full, sources, credits

About Soft Opening 🟢

Best from May to Sep. The nearest town to stay in is St. Thomas.

  • Routes No mountain bike route is mapped here as a route.

From OpenStreetMap: the mountain bike routes mapped within 10 km.

Bike routes and parks: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

The score is the conditions only: the journey, the price and the partners never change it (how we score, how we earn).

Rough cost (estimate): about US$1,160–US$2,110 each

about US$1,160–US$2,110 each · 6 nights, 2 sharing: flights, hire car, stay, food, bike hire.

Our estimate from typical public prices, not a quote: check the real prices before you book (where they come from). Prices are about, in US Dollar (USD): our pound figures at the European Central Bank's rate of 30 October 2026.

How we worked it out 
Rough cost per person for this trip
WhatHow we worked it outEach
Flightsreturn ORD to ERI, estimated from distance and season, 1 airline on the route, with a hold bagabout US$127–US$268
Hire car6 days, sharedabout US$134–US$228
Stay6 nights, a mid-range double, sharedabout US$315–US$523
Food7 days eating outabout US$308–US$576
Bike hire5 days, or about US$114 to fly your ownabout US$275–US$516
Totalabout US$1,160–US$2,110

Prices from public sources, checked in 2026.

Where to stay: St. Thomas

Closest

St. Thomas

5 min by car · 8 places to stay

about US$121/nightcountry average

See 8 places to stay in St. Thomas · Booking.com

About St. Thomas its beds, food and every spot near it

About US$121 a night is our estimate of the country's average 2-star double room that month: not each town's price, and not a quote. Drives are estimates. Prices are about, in US Dollar (USD): our pound figures at the European Central Bank's rate of 30 October 2026.

Getting there: about 5h 45m

About 5h 45m door to door from Chicago

Fly ORD → ERI, direct, then 2h 20m by road

An estimate, one way; the journey never changes the score.

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