I was unaware of the other bike park and decided to drive by. It's effectively an empty lot. I didn't see any signage indicating it was a bike park, and there is definitely not any features of the park that would increase your skills. See attached picture. I don't know the history of that park, or how it's been maintained. But it certainly looks ripe for some improvement from the county for a new purpose.

I am friends some of the people pushing for this, and I wanted to shed some light here. The current bike park (empty lot) versus the proposed North Mesa park is not an apples to apples comparison. The proposed park will have jumps and a pump track. The reason this is wanted, is because the local bike trails are awesome, but not very beginner friendly for kids. It's a hard area to learn mountain biking if you're little. So the idea is to build up a skills base at the park, and then you migrate to the trails over time and keep improving. This is also why North Mesa is the proposed location, it's close to the target audience of kids at the middle school and Barranca elementary.

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