Dallas' Newest Mountain Bike Trail is Opened October 17th. (Sansom Park: credit, construction)

[move4ward]

There's a new mountain bike trail. This is one segment of a larger project to build a 50-mile circuit.

https://www.dmagazine.com/publicatio...lake-spillway/

A new mountain bike trail opened today in East Dallas. Five miles of dirt track twist and turn through 50 wooded acres of the aptly named Creekside Park, which nestles up to White Rock Creek, about a mile south of the lake’s spillway. Credit goes to no fewer than three organizations: the Loop Dallas, which is building a 50-mile circuit around the city and operates a concrete trail that runs beside the park; the Dallas Park and Recreation Department, which should be obvious; and the Dallas Off-Road Bicycle Association, aka DORBA, the 35-year-old nonprofit whose volunteer army has built and maintains more than 30 trails and parks across North Texas.

This is the first track DORBA has built in Dallas in 15 years. It’s also the first time DORBA has brought in an out-of-state trail design and construction company. Singletrack Trails, based in Colorado, cut the path through ash, elm, and hackberry, and it built the adjacent bike park, where riders of varying abilities can test themselves on hills and jumps. To create the terrain, which is still under construction, Singletrack trucked in erosion-resistant dirt and prefab ramps.

[Wittgenstein's Ghost]

Mountain biking is, by far, the outdoor sport with the best infrastructure and opportunities in DFW. DORBA has done a great job of building and maintaining trails and making the most of the limited topography and space available. Most of the trails in the northern suburbs are very, very beginner-friendly due to the flat topography, but there are trails like Sansom Park, Northshore and Big Cedar that have more substantial climbs and downhill sections.

If anyone is interested in finding a place to ride, you can do so here: https://dorba.org/content.aspx?page_...dule_id=372086

Most of my riding in DFW when I'm in town these days is on a gravel bike, which isn't always ideal out at Northshore, but it's still a lot of fun.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by Wittgenstein's Ghost

Mountain biking is, by far, the outdoor sport with the best infrastructure and opportunities in DFW. DORBA has done a great job of building and maintaining trails and making the most of the limited topography and space available. Most of the trails in the northern suburbs are very, very beginner-friendly due to the flat topography, but there are trails like Sansom Park, Northshore and Big Cedar that have more substantial climbs and downhill sections.

If anyone is interested in finding a place to ride, you can do so here: https://dorba.org/content.aspx?page_...dule_id=372086

Most of my riding in DFW when I'm in town these days is on a gravel bike, which isn't always ideal out at Northshore, but it's still a lot of fun.

A buddy is morphing from road biking Hotter'N Hell, Tahoe, a couple weeks ago he raced in CO........anyway over the last year he bought both a gravel bike (some German make) and a mountain bike (Allie or Alley maybe?).

My athletic outlets are old-guy powerlifting and BJJ. That said it is cool to see, inch by inch though it is, cycling grow around here.

[IfTheShoeFits]

Originally Posted by move4ward

There's a new mountain bike trail. This is one segment of a larger project to build a 50-mile circuit.

https://www.dmagazine.com/publicatio...lake-spillway/

Thanks for this post. I am not a mountain biker, but love riding on pavement, and have been meaning to check out the Trinity Forest Spine Trail. This is motivating!