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One City’s Trash is now a Mountain Biker’s Treasure
A city in Iowa repurposes a former landfill into new mountain bike trails.
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Brownfield Mountain Bike Trails: From Environmental Disaster to Pristine Singletrack
Mountain bike trail builders tend to get a bad, though undeserved, rap among certain groups for damaging the environment. But there’s one form of trail development where mountain bikers are surely working to improve the environment: brownfield trails. A brownfield is defined as “a former industrial or commercial site where future use is affected by real or perceived environmental contamination.” Brownfields …
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Alot of mountain bike trails stink
I was reading an article recently about a former landfill in New Zealand that was being developed into a park with mountain bike trails and I realized something: alot of mountain bike trails are in crappy locations (sometimes literally). Essentially it seems like mountain bike trails are often allowed on land that no one really …
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