These video clips and images are what Steamboat Springs lost because they were built without authorization in an area not designated for these trails. Due to their popularity, an attorney was hired and forced the City of Steamboat Springs to flatten this work of art last fall. The city acted quickly and approved a new location to allow a permanent place for replacement for what bikers lost, but it took 8+ years to build what Steamboat had and loved with volunteer effort.
Steamboat Springs’ Bear River Bike Park is one of four finalists for a
Bell Built Grant! Voting ends on Friday, and we’re close to taking the lead! Please help us replace what we lost by voting for the Bear River Bike Park in the Pump Track Category.
The Bear River Bike Park complements an existing skateboard park located on the Yampa River with views of the Steamboat Ski Area. It is easily accessible, located on the Core Trail that runs through town. The bike park already features a beginner and intermediate area. This grant will fund the expert area, with the goal of maximizing the fun factor! This project will help fill a void left by the loss of the unauthorized “Powerlines Jumps” that were removed last fall. Click
here for more information.
Voting on Bell Helmet’s Facebook page is open until April 12. To support Steamboat’s Bear River Bike Park, click
here, select Pump Track category, then cast your vote for the Bear River Bike Park! See you in the ‘Boat this summer!
There are quite a few Steamboat residents within the PB community; myself included!!!! All I can say is PLEASE go vote for us... It'd be so rad to win this so I can go ride a proper pump track and take my friends to a skills park to teach them stuff.
Great job for all the work that has gone into this project. I am so proud to see the Steamboat cycling Community come together fighting for our trails !
Coco
well as DH trails. The Midwest, specificly MN WI and
MI, are just starting to develop these trails. Land
managers don't like these trails and parks, same with
insurance companies. Steamboat, as it shows in their
video, has already started the park and just needs the
grant to complete it. Elm Creek hasn't even started!
This grant would help kick start riding for kids and
adults of all ages. Here people can practice for the DH
trails that are finnaly in the works around here. Vote
Elm creek! Steamboat's park will be completed with or
without the grant. Elm Creek won't start for years
without the grant. Eagan is great, but compared to
what Elm Creek will become.... and how can people
bring Eagan bike park into the conversation?!?!?!?!?! It
isn't even finished! If I'm not mistaken, Colorado has
Valmont Bike Park finished in 2011 by Alpine Bike
Parks at a cost of over $3 million! I wish we had that he
in MN... There is also the Red Mountain Park in
Colorado, also built by Alpine. These are just a couple
of examples of what colorado has. Vote Elm Creek,
Vote for the future of Midwest Biking!