Category: Project In Progress

JORBA Awarded Fox Factory Trail Trust Grant

The grant was awarded for Stags, NJ’s first adaptive mountain bike trail. Stags will be New Jersey’s first accessible trail for adaptive riders. Originally conceived as a reroute around an unsustainable section of the legacy Hewitt-Butler trail in Jungle Habitat, Stags was designed to reduce the number of turns to avoid building separate trails for…

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Ringwood Ramapo Reroute Returns

Dirty Thursdays Are Back Starting 5/5 at 4 pm. We will be working on the Ringwood Ramapo trail Reroute that we started last winter. Meet trail side anytime up till dusk. Heavy steady rain cancels, all tools will be provided. Trail Building 5/8 at 9 am. We will be back at it this Sunday 5/8…

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The Sterling Trail System is Expanding – We Need Your Help

The JORBA Chapter is Funding a New MTB Trail in Sterling Forest Did you know that Palisades MTB is a chapter of both IMBA and JORBA? Well, they are! They formed the organization in 2015 and advocate for mountain bike access in Bergen, Rockland and Orange Counties. Right now, they’re about to begin Phase 3…

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Palisades MTB Spring Update

Trail building training starts this March in Sterling Forest. (See below) Completion of the Upper Dwarskill Crossing in Alpine, NJ.  Continuing our work on Augusta Mine in Sterling Forest. Work on Redback Connector in Sterling starts in April. (We need funds for this project, see below).  Start of Takamak Long Path Bridge rebuilding in Blauvelt, NY. …

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