Safety and use notice

Routes are a guide

Every route, difficulty rating and hazard warning is a computer estimate built from data. It is for planning; it does not guarantee that a track exists, is open, is passable or has the difficulty shown.

Difficulty depends on your bike, your skills, the weather and the state of the ground that day. An “easy” dirt track can become impossible after a storm.

Open data has errors

Corally uses OpenStreetMap (a collaborative map) and public elevation models. They can be incomplete, out of date or wrongly tagged: tracks that no longer exist, chains and gates that are not mapped, unmarked fords or wrong access rights.

If you find a mistake, you can fix it in OpenStreetMap: you fix it for everyone.

The rider decides and is responsible

You decide whether to ride each section. If it does not look right when you get there, don't: turn back or find another way.

You are responsible for your riding, your bike (registered, insured and roadworthy), your gear and for following traffic rules, which also apply on tracks and rural roads.

• Load the route before you leave and do not handle your phone while riding.
• Plan fuel with a margin: in the hills there may be no fuel station for many kilometres.
• Ride in a group if you can. If you ride alone, tell someone where you are going and when you plan to be back.
• Do not cross a ford with a strong current or if you cannot see the bottom.
• Keep your speed down: you share the track with people on foot, on bikes, on horseback, with livestock and with work vehicles.

Signs, closures and private land

Signs and instructions from officers override the map. If a track is signposted as closed, blocked by a chain or private, do not go through even if Corally includes it in the route.

Corally tries to avoid tracks marked as closed to motorbikes, but that information may be missing or wrong.

Rules for motor vehicles on forest land and tracks

Riding motor vehicles on forest land, forest tracks and natural areas is restricted by law. Spain's Forestry Act (Ley 43/2003 de Montes) restricts open motorised traffic on forest tracks outside the road network, and each region adds its own forestry and protected-area rules (in Corally's area, those of the Valencian Community, Aragon, Catalonia —with its Act 9/1995 on motorised access to the natural environment— and the Region of Murcia).

Natural parks and other protected areas have their own plans that may ban motorised traffic or limit it to certain tracks, seasons or groups. Check before you go: a route suggested by Corally is not a permit.

Fire risk and temporary closures

During periods and days of high fire risk, authorities can ban vehicles from forest tracks and close whole areas; they also close them for works, hunting, sporting events or storms. Corally does not know about these closures.

Before you go, check the fire risk level and notices from the Valencian regional government (Generalitat Valenciana), the Government of Aragon, the Government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya) and the Region of Murcia (and call 112 if in doubt).

Respect the countryside

Stay on the track, do not open new lines or cut corners. Avoid deep mud that wrecks the track, keep the noise down near villages, farms and livestock, and take your rubbish home.