mountain surf creative

ALL THINGS TRAILS

services

By sharing knowledge and ideas and interpreting landscapes, Mountain Surf Creative wants to help you create trails that serve your community.  

Let’s start a conversation about the trail solutions Mountain Surf Creative can offer.

  • New construction, maintenance, decommissioning. Urban to Wilderness. Bike, hike, equestrian, motorized.

  • Trail skills training, hybrid projects, consulting, client’s representative.

  • Discovering what is going well and not so well with your trail system and recommending solutions.

  • Bringing together ideas for an experience and integrating them into the landscape.

  • mountain bike flow trail
  • trail in California in burn area
  • trail in Oregon
  • mountain bike flow trail
  • stone stairs on National Park Trail in Arizona
  • trail in Cambodia
  • trail skills training in Cambodia
  • trail skills training in Cambodia
  • stone stairs on trail in Argentina
  • wood stairs on trail in Argentina
  • Accessible trail in Washington
  • mountain bike flow trail in Arkansas
  • wood stairs on Wilderness trail in North Carolina
  • Kevin riding mountain bike on a berm in Oregon
  • stone stairs on the Appalachian Trail in Bear Mountain State Park in New York
  • roller compacting an accessible trail in New York
  • excavator building trail on Mount Hough in Quincy, California
  • stone stairs on hiking trail in New York
Kevin Simpson in Wilderness in Oregon

kevin simpson, owner

Kevin founded Mountain Surf Creative in 2023 as a way to bring creative solutions to trail related challenges.  

Kevin spent 9 years as an educator before turning his life long passion for trails into a full time career in 2013. Since then he has worked with non profit organizations, federal agencies, and private contractors bringing trail concepts to life. From managing the construction of the multi-million dollar Bear Mountain Trails Project on the Appalachian Trail, to leading backcountry Wilderness trail crews, to machine built gravity flow mountain bike trails, Kevin has vast trails knowledge in a variety of landscapes.

Kevin combines his experience in formal education with his technical trail knowledge to create engaging and informative trails training experiences and works with clients to design and build trails that interact sustainably with the landscape creating positive user experiences.