Mountain of the Rogue is a trail system that is primarily built
by mountain bikers for mountain bikers this project has been in the making for
a long time we're pushing about four and a half years right now and it took
nearly the first four for approval basically anytime you're working with
an agency like the BLM who have been very supportive of the project there's
still a lot of hoops that have to be gone through environmental testing and
going out to the community and getting feedback and input so that took a long
time but now that we have grants in place and approval in place and they've
started construction things are moving along very well so we anticipate the
trail system opening officially in early to mid summer this year phase one
which is what we're working on right now is going to be about nine and a half
miles of trail there's a three and a half mile climbing trail and then about
six miles of downhill our objective is to have world-class downhill mountain
biking
well as to the layout of the trail it's what's known as a stacked trail system
and one of the real appeals of the trail system is that for a mountain biker it
appeals to a whole range of riders from the cross-country rider that loves
climbing to the beginner biker down low to the to the really advanced technical
rider up high as well as the more downhill oriented folks because they'll be
jumps and tabletops and big berms and kind of eclectic but a little something
for everyone because we're right off of I-5 people are going to be able to you
know going up and down the up and down the state of Oregon are going to be able
to stop in go for a mountain bike ride or a run or hike just enjoy the views and
the valley and the nature and it's just incredible
we've just had a wide range of support and I know I can't get everybody
thanked but I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone because
this is here because of the joint effort of a lot of people
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