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The trails, like all trails at Burns Park are multi-use and the new sections will be about 6.2 miles long. The International Mountain Biking Association helped in laying out the trails about 2 years ago. I’ve seen some concern about the gravel at the beginning of the trail near the Boy Scout trail head expressed on forums.north face denali jackets. That section will only be .3 miles for some ADA access and to protect the start and finish of the trail. They hope to have the trails completed by May 7th which is Arkansas Trails Day. The Arkansas Trails Council expects to have big events in the park in conjunction with the statewide celebration.

“Much of the trail in Burns Park was put in back in the 60′s, 70′s and 80′s when we didn’t know much about trail building. With the new knowledge and techniques we have, and with IMBA helping so much in the layout, I think we are going to have a spectacular multiuse trail system in Burns Park that will be readily available to the metro area”, said Turner. The trails will be open to mountain bikers, hikers and equestrians.

The Central Arkansas Master Naturalists and North Little Rock Parks are doing the work on the trails. The trail is being cut by Parks maintenance crews using the same machines as used on the LoViT and other cheap north face. Trail workers will then go behind to hand groom the tread which is expected to be 24″ wide.

You may have read here that I’ve been doing some trail work out at Pinnacle Mountain State Park. The background is that a few of us got together with the Park a couple of years ago and dotted the proper “i’s” and crossed the appropriate “t’s” and they allowed us to design and build a couple of mountain bike trails, the Jackfork (intermediate/advanced) and the Rabbit Ridge trails (easy). We opened them officially last October as part of the International Mountain Biking Association’s “Take A Kid Mountain Biking Day.”

Part of the agreement was that we would also maintain the trails once they were built. This keeps us doing something for the trails 3 or 4 times a month.north face denali jackets. The trail doesn’t really need much maintenance but we do like to make improvements, getting rid of rocks that seem to grow in the worst possible spots, smoothing out a turn here and there and a little pruning so no one puts an eye out. The rocks are the real work so we have taken to carrying a 10 lb sledgehammer as we work the trails.