The Fourmile Mountain Bike Park held a “soft opening” Saturday with a community ride through their new biking trails ahead of their 2025 grand opening.
Located at 1601 Williams Street in Des Moines, the park sits on 50.25 acres of land in east Des Moines and Pleasant Hill along the Gay Lea Wilson Trail. Polk County Conservation and Central Iowa Trail Association (CITA) came together to design and undertake the project. The trails have been constructed and will be maintained by the CITA.
“It takes a community; we are 100 percent volunteer based so everything is built by volunteers and maintained by volunteers, so the trail users are the ones putting in the work,” said Dave McCloney the president of the Central Iowa Trail Association.
The project included construction of biking trials, more parking, and other amenities. Earth berms, flow trails, wood jumps and boardwalks, and stream crossings are featured throughout the trail. They finished construction on the trails this fall but the project will not be completely finished till the spring of 2025.