Nova Scotia Bike Park Info (Dirt Jumps/BMX/4-Cross/Mountain Bike Skills)

This one was donated to the RC Community. When meeting there on site with the councillor originally, we warned her that this was in the middle of a flood plane. Being an election year, it was a forced project. As a big of an experiment, we used sod to form the core of the table tops, and dirt to form in to jumps. It was a pretty fun little park until Hurricane Earl completely flooded the park weeks later in October - and it sat under water for the whole winter. Truly disappointing, but not all sites are good ones - and this was one of them.
When asked to go maintain the park, the original conversation with the councillor was shared, and we decided to help transition it to the RC Community.

Church Street in Waverley has a similar story except it’s still pretty fun on a bike - no flooding :slightly_smiling_face: - it’s for RC now, too.

Good idea to make use of the parks - turning them over to RC use.

The Church Street jumps are still OK, and not too big for learners. I wish there was a better roll-in though.

Didn’t have our bikes with us, but the Port Hawkesbury pump track looks pretty friggin sweet. Nice work @nimzie.

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Thanks Derek! It’s really really fun on all kinds of wheeled things.

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Just found this convo and ya I’m in cb all summer and there is certainly a lack of MTB but you should talk to the guy who owns novasopia his name is Cory he does a lot of mtb and is trying to build mtb spots around cb. Right now I know of a couple jumps and places In cb to ride but you should try to contact him.

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Where exactly is this located? Bought a house and moving to the area soon

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Orchard St and Spartan Ave… Don’t know the status maybe @Pepperjester will chime in.



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Yep, It’s off of Orchard St, and yes you can go ride :slight_smile:

The first round of features in place and open. The immediate next round of building (starting tomorrow!) will involve starting on a gravel trail around the park. This will give more options for the users and gives riders access to future skills areas.

P/S Don’t worry - gravel trails don’t need to be flat, they can get rollers too!

I’ll snap a few more photos - maybe even some video of the set up tomorrow.

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more shots from the Berwick Park…

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Is it time to add the Berwick park to the master list at the top? What’s the official name of the park?

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Based on the link click counters it looks like your list is being well used.

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it’s not on google maps or trailforks yet but the person on the trailflow instagram page said he’s working to get it on asap

Thanks, @JeffV. Good to know.

I was updating the Google Maps links, and the Eastern Passage BMX Park looks like it has two other names on Google Maps - Oceanview BMX Park, and The Passage Jump and Pump Track. Under both names it says “Closed”. Is this park no longer active? @nimzie?

If someone is in Liverpool sometime, could they check out the park near the skatepark and provide an update on what the state of the bike park is?

Berwick skillspark:
https://www.trailforks.com/skillpark/berwick-skillpark/

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thanks

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Berwick added to the master list at the top. What features are there - I see from the pictures, mountain bike skills. Are there jumps? Pump track?

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Eric, at the moment the park has a mix of features including rollers, berms, bridges, log rides, jumps and drops. More stuff will be coming this summer including a multi use trail around the park and more bike features.

We’ve started on the gravel trail base and will be doing more as soon as the new round of gravel is dropped on site. As the park is so sandy, we need to cap areas before we can work in them so having the new loop trail will be key in opening larger biking zones.

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