Mountain Biking Skills Park Community Meeting Wednesday February 23rd 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Howard County Cyclists;
Over a year ago BAHC and MORE (Mid-Atlantic Off-Road Enthusiasts) met with representatives from Howard County Rec & Parks and discussed the possibility of creating a Mountain Bike Skills Park/course at Rockburn Branch Park off Landing Road in Elkridge. After a great deal of hard work by Melanie Nystrom of MORE to gain final administrative and legal approval, MORE and RAP are ready to begin work on final design and construction schedule. A meeting is being held at Race Pace Bicycles on Oakland Mills Rd (off Snowden River) from 6:30- 8:30pm on Wednesday Feb 23rd – details below. The Skills Park is intended to provide a training venue with obstacles and challenges for beginner, intermediate and advance mountain bikers. Present at the meeting will be a consultant from the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) who will discuss trail and obstacle options and design ideas.
Please pass this to all Clubs and any mountain bikers you know. MORE and the County will be sharing the significant cost of building this facility and it is in our interest to ensure that cycling community inputs are provided to them. Whether you can attend or not please consider donating to MORE’s fund to defray the design and materials cost for the Skills Park. A Donate button is on the MORE Rockburn site:
<a href="http://www.more-mtb.org/index.php?page=RockburnSkillsArea">http://www.more-mtb.org/index.php?page=RockburnSkillsArea</a>;
Much of the actual construction will be done by MORE volunteers, so when a schedule has firmed up I’ll be putting more word out on when and how to volunteer.
Jack
Jack Guarneri
President Bicycling Advocates of Howard County
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Public meeting to solicit input, suggestions, and feedback regarding the proposed
Skills Park and Pump Track areas
at Rockburn Branch Park, a Howard County Park.
Wednesday February 23rd
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Race Pace Bicycles Columbia
6925 Oakland Mills Rd.
Columbia 21045
Got a concern about how something will be handled? Voice it!
Know of a low maintenance skill challenging obstacle that we need? Tell us!
Want to know specifics about design and opening dates? Tough!
We won’t know all the details like that at this meeting, but we’ll know some and we’ll share em - the meeting is to help us get the rest of the details sorted out so the project can keep moving forward. Participation by all is important!
Key parties from IMBA Trail Solutions as well as members of the park staff will be on hand.