Hoots worked collaboratively with van der Zalm + Associates and New Line Skate Parks to design and create a local Bike Park and top-shelf product that complimented the Gleneagles Recreation Center and state-of-the-art building while keeping construction costs low.

 

Check out busy Opening Day with Recreation Coordinators and local shredders chatting on the Bike Park!

 

The skate and bike facility came about as a means to address and deter skateboarders and bike riders from using the local tennis courts. Residents and the Municipality held meetings to explore the potential to provide an all-encompassing recreation space with Skate and Bike Park suggested alongside climbing wall.

 

In the interim, a short-term Bike Park was installed for one season and monitored for acceptance and risk. Proving to be a popular success, the temporary facility was taken down with Hoots brought in to design and construct a Bike Skills Park for the long term together with Skate Park infrastructure. Progressive jump lines were built along the west side of site, while technical wood-rock skills components reached around the Skate Park at the east to nestle between the dirt jumps and concrete forms.

 

The Skate and Bike Park were completed in time for a very successful Park community day celebration with both facilities receiving acclaim, and the latter written up in the IMBA ‘Managing Mountain Biking’ resource manual.

 

(photos by S. Kozak & Hoots)