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[6 May 2011 | Comments Off on IMBA Trail Care Crew Visit | ]
IMBA Trail Care Crew Visit

We are pleased to announce that Bowling Green KyMBA has been awarded a grant to host the IMBA Trail Care Crew from July 14th to July 17th at Nolin Lake State Park! This expert team of trail builders will join the Bowling Green Kentucky Mountain Bike Association (KyMBA) to teach sustainable trail building at Brier Creek Recreation Area of Nolin Lake. The Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew will be at Nolin Lake to talk trails, teach people proper trail building technique and spend quality time digging in the dirt. The visit …

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[15 Apr 2011 | Comments Off on Weldon Peete Park/Mitch McConnell Park | ]

The Bowling Green chapter of KyMBA has been working with the Bowling Green Riverfront Foundation (BGRF) to help them form a recreation center in downtown riverfront Bowling Green, KY.  The Bowling Green Riverfront Foundation (BGRF) has proposed three projects for that area. The projects are a whitewater park, bouldering area and bike park. Bowling Green KyMBA is helping the riverfront foundation facilatate the bike park project.
We are breaking the bike park into three phases. Phase 1 will be to build 1.5 miles of sustainable natural surface trail. Phase 2 will be to build …

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[5 Apr 2011 | Comments Off on KyMBA Volunteer Trail Day at Ben Hawes Park in Owensboro, KY | ]
KyMBA Volunteer Trail Day at Ben Hawes Park in Owensboro, KY

Kentucky Mountain Bike Association volunteers Nick Leonard and Dave Booher, use field hoes to chop the edge of a newly cut multi-use trail Saturday at Ben Hawes Park. About a dozen local volunteers, who took instruction from professional trail builder Alex Stewart, founder of Spectrum Trail Designs, smoothed and cleared more than a thousand feet of trail during the first Trail Day of the year.