Elkford’s BMXers and skateboarders are getting a new place to ride.
The District of Elkford and the Elkford Biking Club have been granted $250,000 from the Columbia Basin Trust to build a bicycle jump and skills park.
Club president Jason Meldrum says the park will be built along Boivin Creek, it will be fully paved for easy maintenance.
“Anything that rolls and doesn’t have an engine you can put on there,” Meldrum says. “And then there will be three separate jump lines, intermediate, beginner, and maybe not so much expert level, but little better then intermediate. And then just some little skill sections, logs and different things like that.”
Meldrum was inspired to make the trail after spending time at a similar park in the Fernie area.
“Why cant we have that here? Let’s have something here for the kids,” he says. “Let’s have something here to bring people to town. When we would go through the pass for Fernie, you didn’t just go to the bike park and then go home. You’d go, and then you’d go get gas or you’d go get supper, grab a snack at the grocery store, you know?”
Construction could start by August.
– Jason Meldrum, Elkford Biking Club president
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