A Bike Park In SoCal? Heck, yes! (threads merged)

I just copy and pasted this from the Decline Magazine site (www.declinemagazine.com)

PRETTY FREAKIN' COOL!!!!

A Bike Park In SoCal? Heck, yes!

The Ranch at Elizabeth Lake, just northeast of Valencia, California, is currently turning this landscape into a bike park, complete with downhill and cross-country trails, a pumptrack, slopestyle course, BMX track and skills zones. And that’s just the beginning…

Marketing Director, Shannon Decker, has big plans for the resort, which also houses hundreds of RV spaces, along with several cabins, a swimming pool, a golf course, banquet hall, a bar and two restaurants. He plans to move in a bike shop and general store to make the resort an all-encompassing destination. The resort facility and the surrounding landscape have a lot of potential to become a bicycle destination, catering to everything from downhillers to triathletes.

Trail cutting started this week as will the landscaping of the BMX, pumptrack and slopestyle zones. Decker is already working with IMBA and other cycling organizations on trail design and park layout. However, he could use some help from knowledgeable mountain bikers to help route and cut trails, and help construct the pumptrack and slopestyle courses. If you’ve got experience and want to be a part of shaping this bike park then check in with Shannon Decker at [email protected] Anyone that wants to lend a hand is welcome and will gain special bike park privileges.

The trails will wind through wooded mountains with shuttle access to the top of the DH trails.

The area slated for the pumptrack and slopestyle zones is larger than a football field.

The Ranch has basketball courts, a swimming pool and a fire pit.

About an hour out of Los Angeles, The Ranch at Elizabeth Lake is located in the Angeles National Forest.


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Sick Sick sick sick sick sicky sick and aloso sick too..

Sounds like the Gods are on the same mind set as the DH ridders.....and i need to move now...

 

i wonder how long until its finished and open?

 

Sorry to be a downer but I will believe it when its done and open. Dont forget we thought we were getting this at Vail lake just over a year ago and how did that end up.

 

Well the guy that owns Vail is a money hungry dush...!!! read the artical sound like that have already started diging...

 

You =

:lol:

 

i shure hope it happens it is a lot closer than mammoth

 

According to the article on the Decline site they are already cutting trails and building. Who knows when it will really open, but it sounds like it's the real deal. I just hope they have experienced trail builders building everything.

 

A swimming pool and fire pit?? SWEET! :bang:

 

hope it works out. it's no too far from home

 

SICK!!! i hope they have campgrounds nearby!

 

:-k

 

:bang:

 

isnt it funny how fast they edit the post after they say just dumb things....??? Lawsuits are so 80's...
and there are laws that make shure people cant after they signed a release and then hurt them self....

Anyways people that make lawsuits are people that shouldnt of been out there to start with...!!!

 

Read the article, it sounds like it would be great area to ride.

 

LOL. Can you sue a rock garden?

 

I just looked it up on Google Earth and it looks like it is closer to Palmdale than Valencia.........its also right smack on the San Andreas fault :-k

 

it was edited to correct for spelling, you should try it some time. "shure" is a good example - and if you think people still don't sue AND WIN after signing waivers, you are still living in the 80's. but i do agree with you that if have the mentality to sue, you shouldn't be on a bike...

anyway i hope this park does happen and i shouldn't be so negative but i've seen so many mx tracks shut down for the above reasons that i am cautiously optimistic.

 

It's just south of the Poppy Preserve and north of Bouquet Cyn.

Uncle has a place on the lake there.

Might have to make it up there more often.

And it isn't in the ANF or Valencia as the article suggested.

 

Best news yet.

I will personally sue the hell out of anyone who sues this park.