The 3.5-mile trail system brings a mountain biking space to Iowa's largest city.
Mountain biking is about to be a lot more accessible to Iowa's largest city with the soft opening of Fourmile Mountain Biking Park this month.
“We’ve never had a bike-optimized trail system in central Iowa before, so it feels like a big thing for us,” Adam Fendrick, park planner for Polk County Conservation, tells Bike Mag. ”Iowa’s not the first place you think of for mountain biking, but we have a pretty energized community here. People finally have a place to ride singletrack with jumps and other features.”
The trail system at1601 Williams Streetis maintained by the non-profit
Central Iowa Trail Association(CITA), and winds through 50 acres of wooded Polk County land on a partial flood plain. None of the nine trails—with names including Sink or Swim and Ripple Effect—are within the flood plain, ensuring the park won’t be washed out, Fendrick says.