Lodestone Bike Park
The effort to create a trail system at Lodestone Regional Park, dubbed the Lodestone Cross-Country (XC) Bike Park, was a grassroots effort to bring trails to aspiring mountain bike riders in an area and a community that traditionally has had little to no access to trails and open space.
This project will focus on improvements to this non-motorized recreational cross-country style bike park that features several miles of trails.
The Lodestone trails were originally hand-cut by members of the High School Mountain Bike teams in partnership with Salt Lake County. Trails Utah seeks to add skill areas, bermed turns, drops, rock gardens and other trail features suitable for advancing mountain bike skill levels.
Lodestone Regional Park, a 60-acre park located in Kearns Metro Township and West Valley City, UT. The westernmost 20 acres of the park is a sloped area where the XC bike park resides. The new development will include skill areas designed to develop the proficiency of young mountain bikers. Unlike other gravity-style bike parks, Lodestone trails are bi-directional and intended to be ridden in laps. Looping all the trails together provides around 6 miles of trail. Rides can be shortened or lengthened by looping different trails together and riding them uphill and downhill.
This XC-style bike park is intended to serve the needs of at least six middle and high school mountain bike race teams who do not have easy access to open space and trails for the purposes of training. Providing underserved UHSCL high school riders an area to train and improve skills is the main purpose of this project. However, this park is also open to the public and includes some trails for adaptive riders, further expanding its user base.
Our trail builders
Forestry and Trail Solutions, a small trail building company out of Durango, Colorado, was hired to improve the existing trail system and add skills development areas and features that can help high school mountain bike racers be competitive with kids from around the state. Brody Kunz and his crew have worked on several bike parks in Colorado that host high school mountain bike racers and he jumped at the chance to incorporate volunteer trail work days to get kids out, educate them about trail building and trail maintenance, and get their buy-in.
Currently, FTS is about half way through transforming the hard-scratch trail system into something that will a tremendous recreational amenity for not just training mountain bike racers, but anyone who has an itch to try their riding skills on the brand new trail system at Lodestone Regional Park.
Thanks to
Trails Utah is incredibly grateful for the support of the Spencer and Amanda Millerberg Family Giving Fund, People for Bikes, Dawn Corporate Giving, The Outride Fund, Salt Lake Running Company, Kennecott Charitable Foundation, Utah Division of Outdoor Recreation, Salt Lake County Community Services, and the Utah High School Cycling League in helping this project become a reality.
Would also love to thank West Granite Composite Mountain Bike Team for all of their volunteer hours helping to build these trails.
This project is expected to be completed by March 2024, with a grand opening and ribbon cutting in April, so make sure to follow our Facebook or Instagram pages for updates!
