Northstar Contracting, King Trail Alliance and Marty’s Reliable Cycle have provided some training to JORBA equipment operators. Congratulations to Jason Fenton Art White Jeremy Klopper Tom Pannorfi Ken Seebeck Sandy Chapman Chris Chapman Marc Perez for succesfully completing the course. Mechanized Training After a safety briefing the training agenda included loading and unloading the JORBA Mini ex…
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Regional News: CLIMB Long Island
CLIMB is very busy building two more bike park projects. One is a BMX oriented park with two pump tracks, dirt jumps and a flow trail. The other project is at Hempstead Harbor Woods where we are building 2 additional miles through adjacent NY DEC wetlands where we are almost finished with 3/4 miles of…
Regional News: NYCMTB Second Saturdays @ Highbridge Bike Park
Build mountain bike trails and then ride them during NYCMTB’s monthly welcome days at Highbridge park in Manhattan. Bring your friends and family for a day of fun in the woods and learn what it takes to build, maintain, and ride the most progressive urban bike park in America. Multiple Dates
Regional News: NYCMTB
The New York City Mountain Biking Association is building a new 1,800-foot trail, the Fort George Connection, in Highbridge Park where Manhattan’s only legal mountain bike trail network is found. The trail will act as a major junction, connecting three existing trails across the upper and lower sections of the park. This vital link between…
Jungle Parking Lot Paving 8/16-17
The parking lot at Jungle Habitat will be paved Monday August 16th and off limits Tuesday the 17th. It will most likely reopen Wednesday.
High Mountain Blazing and Signage
The Nature Conservancy looking for help adopting the mountain bike trails at HIgh Mountain. Do all the trails need blazing or is signage at the intersections enough? Should signage include difficulty level? Should blazes be colors, or trail names? Are there any trails that should be one way? If you have any comments or ideas…
2021 New Jersey Trails & Greenways Summit
New Jersey’s first-ever Trails & Greenways Summit will be kicking off with a variety of webinars on September 22nd and continuing the 23rd, with weekend mobile workshops hosted by bicycle clubs and nonprofit organizations across the state. This FREE virtual summit, sponsored by @NewJerseyDOT and @NewJerseyDEP, is an opportunity to highlight the creation of robust trail and…
MCPC Tourne Volunteer Trail Build 8/21/2021
In order to help with the new trail build at Tourne, Amy Lutsko of the Morris County Park Commission (MCPC) is organizing a monthly community trail build event through Sept. This is open to everyone ages 16+ and no experience is necessary. Amy will be there to provide guidance and training. The next one will…
NEW Trail Approval in Sterling Forest State Park
JORBA Chapter Palisades MTB now has approval to help build 5 miles of new trail in Sterling Forest State Park. PMTB will contract with Tahawus, a professional trail-building company, to speed construction of the new mountain bike optimized trail. This project will also require volunteers and additional funding to see it through to fruition. If you are interested…
Ringwood Trail Work Saturday 9/11/2021
Looking to get out Saturday morning to work on the Copper Union Trail, anyone interested in joining me? Meet at lot on end of Long Meadow Rd in Tuxedo NY. at 8:30 am. If that lot is full, there is another lot on Eagle Valley Rd across the street by the pond. Volunteers can either…