Bike park

Timberline Bike Park: 30-day public comment period, send in your comments!

Submitted Mon, 03/07/2011 - 7:46pm by Tom Slovak

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As many of you know, RLK and Company (dba Timberline Lodge and Ski Area) has proposed a lift-served mountain bike park on Mt. Hood. The Forest Service has opened a 30-day* public comment period on the "Preliminary Assessment" of this proposal.

(*30 days from March 6th, when the public notice was published in the Oregonian)

Now is your opportunity to weigh in during this public process.

Comments can be submitted to:
comments-pacificnorthwest-mthood-zigzag@fs.fed.us

Forum topic

Submitted Sun, 12/12/2010 - 9:10am by jasonvh

Where's the new "Gravity" category on the Forum. The gravity guys need a spot to post too...

Love to see a "bike park" category as well. Just because there aren't any yet, doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.

-JVH

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Final Sunday Parkways in NW Portland on September 26th!

Submitted Mon, 09/13/2010 - 6:24pm by Will Heiberg

First of all, a huge thank you to everyone who has helped out with Sunday Parkways this summer. I know, there were many of them. The exposure we have received, and even more importantly, the opportunities that this has opened up have been incredible. We are working on an opportunity to build a public pumptrack in large part due to the work that we have put into sharing the skills course at Sunday Parkways, so once again, THANK YOU!

This is the last round and is the first time it is being offered in NW (the Pearl District). This should be tons of fun, get some more great exposure and provide opportunities for kids of all ages to get jazzed on their bikes.

Once again, we are looking for a few volunteers to help out with setting up and staffing the event. The event is on Sunday, September 26th from 10am - 3pm. Drop me an email if you have a little time you can spare to invest in creating riding opportunities in the metro area!

SE Sunday Parkways on August 15th!

Submitted Mon, 08/09/2010 - 8:04pm by Will Heiberg

Hey everyone!

The fourth Sunday Parkways is coming up this weekend in SE, Sunday the 15th. We will be settign up in the ballfield in Col Sumners park. This has traditionally been the biggest draw of all the Sunday Parkways, and with all the attention and postive reactions we get from the skills course, we really want to have a great showing! Our goal is to be able to have skill courses in the metro area to provide fun and safe places for kids (of all ages) to have a great time, gain confidence and improve their bike handling!

We are getting positive feedback and interest in pursueing this goal, so let's continue to host the skills course, get people stoked on the possibilities, and show everyone there is a real demand for permanant and progressive bike parks in Portland!

Once again I am hoping you may have a little time in your day to help out. a couple of hours is a huge help!

The Sunday Parkways goes from 10am to 3pm. Please send me an email if you can help out.

Gateway Green

Submitted Sat, 03/20/2010 - 3:33am by TomArcher

This discussion was buried in another forum, so I have moved it here with our other local advocacy efforts.
3/10The Gateway Green Committee being facilitated by Oregon Solutions is still meeting monthly. The goal for the group is to develop an agreement between the parties to move forward on the project. Right now, no single agency wants to take the lead, primarily because of lack of funding. Portland Parks, who seems the most logical to take ownership, is hesitant without real commitments from other agencies/groups to help with funds for construction and on-going maintenance.
The whole situation is complicated by the ODOT ownership and subsequent requirements. ODOT will ultimately need a formal agreement with another government agency and we are looking at forming a consortium that would oversee the development and on-going management.