The Central Oregon Trail Alliance (COTA) added Funner and Tiddly Winks trails to the system west of town in to make it easier to stage races without disturbing the public at other popular areas.  Trails are being added in this area by COTA with approval by the Forest Service at a feverish pace. Funner and TiddlyWinks are rideable and fun with lots of big banked corners and jumps. Some sections of the trails were still very green at the end of 2009 and needed to be ridden more to get packed out.  Originally some of the features were more than a little hard to ride up. Now however most of the more difficult sections have alternate routes that you can use to go up or down. There is a bit of climbing for the first part of Tiddly Winks from the start of the trail at Wanoga but it is much longer with more features once you start descending. At this time, unlike the Whoops trail, there is no one way restriction. One option, if you are not doing a shuttle, would be to ride up the highway then descend one of the two trails. 

 

The area has been receiving a lot of attention locally, which is why there is a whole page devoted to these two trails. COTA received a big grant to develop this area. See this COTA page for details.  In terms of mapping all the new trails it may have to wait until the end of the 2010 season for the dust to settle so to speak.

 

Because it is so new many of the intersections are not marked.  As of November 2009 there is only one real critical one that is not marked and that is where the two trails join the Storm King trail at the bottom. If you are coming up from the highway they are about a quarter mile in just past a big ambush rock. The first one is Funner and about 30 feet past that is Tiddly Winks.The start of the two trails at the top at Wanoga are not very well marked either - yet. Funner takes off at the northeastern corner of the parking lot by some ski with dogs trial signs. Tiddly winks takes off at the east end of the sled hill at the bottom in the trees in front of the new warming hut. Once you are on the trails there are quite a few passing lane splits or options for the degree of difficulty. The passing splits are not marked but most of the technical choices are.

Getting There: The Wanoga Snow Park is a major parking lot on the left side (south) of the Cascade Lakes Highway on the way to Mount Bachelor. It is just past the Meissner Snow Park on the north side of the highway. It is 12.2 miles from the last round about on Century Drive in Bend. The Wanoga Snow Park is well signed for all the activity there in the winter. There is a pullout for a gated road just below where Storm King crosses the highway on the south side of the highway.  The gated road is about fifty yards passed a long chain up pull out lane on the right. The Storm King trail is about another 50 yards uphill on the Highway from the gated road. This is not marked and easy to miss. The coordinates of the trail crossing the highway are approximately 43.980952 lat and -121.460907 long.