Mega Underground Bike Park Opens in Louisville, Kentucky
Today marks the Grand Opening of the Mega Underground Bike Park in Louisville, KY. It is the ONLY underground bike park in the world and spans 320,000 square feet. It is located 10 stories underground and the designers (Joe and Alec) have created over 45 trails.
Huge underground complex offers dirt jumpers tons of options.
The bike park is one of four parts of the Louisville Mega Cavern that also hosts 3 other attractions including zip lines, ropes course and for the less adventurous a tram tour. In addition, the Cavern has meeting rooms and party rooms available for rent and they do a pretty cool lights show during Christmas.
Two riders airing it out over the dirt jumps.
We talked by phone with an employee who said the Grand Opening was going awesome with several local TV stations sending their news crews to cover the event (who are filming remote since TV and radio signals cannot be transmitted while so far underground). The cavern was created as a massive limestone quarry — with miners blasting out an amazing amount of rock for over 40+ years during the middle of the 20th century. It is now privately owned and has been running as a tourist attraction for approximately 8 years.
Jumps are huge, but DJ is just part of what the park has to offer.
Riders enjoy perfect weather all-year round in the cavern, even when the outside temperatures are not conducive to biking. The bike park has dirt jumps, pump tracks and even a dual slalom set-up. You can bring your BMX, dirt jumper, 4x or XC bike since they have cross country single track trails, too. Currently bike rentals are not available but the organizers are working on this and hope to have them available in March or April.
Check out this video submitted by Dirt Hick Productions that gives a good overview of the park.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF_WQ0eC9Bg
Daily rate for an eight hour pass is $40 and the daily rate for a four hour pass is $24. Riders can buy tickets in advance online or on-site. Kids of all ages are welcome (kids must be accompanied by an adult). The daily hours of operation are: 10am to 5pm Mon-Thu and 10am to 8pm Fri-Sun.
About Mega Bike
“Join us in early February 2015 to experience a one of a kind Underground Bike Park. Enjoy the comfort of our 60 degree temperature year round. Come experience what the buzz is all about. You simply won’t believe what you see.”
For more information visit: www.louisvillemegacavern.com/attractions/6/mega-underground-bike-park
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