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Greensfelder Trail Design Progress


We're busily weighing all our options as we keep walking the hillsides of Greensfelder to reroute and lengthen the DeClue trail from the tower lot to the Roundhouse loop lot. Everything is still preliminary but it's shaping up to be yet another amazing addition to an already top notch St... Read more

Tags: Greensfelder, DeClue, workday, trail design

Broemmelsiek Park Workday- Saturday Jan. 27th


Haven't heard of Broemmelsiek Park? Probably for good reason, since it's St. Charles County's newest park, and it's not open yet. Mike Dunston has been working hard along with SCCP to get ready for the park opening in the not-too-distant future.

If you want to see for yourself... Read more

Tags: broemmelsiek, workday, trailbuilding, Trail Building, Saint charles, sccp, stco

SIUE Trail 4 Work Continues


Work continues on Kirby's master plan for a perimeter loop at SIUE which will allow you to ride what will end up being nearly 8 miles of singletrack and a couple of hundred feet of bike path. Considering the small area and the difficulty of finding sufficient terrain because of the large... Read more

Tags: SIUE, trail design, scouting, illinois

SIUE Trail Site- Then and Now


Recently, JohnnyD posted a link to some pictures of the old Mississippi River Festival site on which the current mtb trails at SIUE are located. I took one of the pictures and overlaid it on a shot from a similar angle in Google Earth... Read more

Tags: SIUE, archive, history, festival, music

St. Charles County Trail Conditions Hotline


Mike Dunston also tells us that St. Charles County Parks has set up an experimental Trail Closure phone hotline. Since this is experimental, neither he, nor the rangers have worked out all the details of how it's going to function. Those parks which are included are: Matson Hill, Klondike... Read more

Tags: hotline, stco, sccp, phone, phone number, trail conditions, trail conditions hotline, saint charles county

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