Dauphin Derailleurs Cycle Club officially released the details of their Master Plan Trails Concept.
In front of a full crowd at the Countryfest Community Cinema last night, the trail plans were shown and explained.
Brenda Gregory, the president of the club, spoke with us at the event about how much work was put into creating the trail plans.
“It was a lot of work but we contracted Alex to do that work. He’s the expert. We had ideas, he worked with us about terrain, because we started out in certain areas first, that didn’t work out with landowners. So we moved onto Plan B. So he has been working with us since October or November, so it’s already been 7 months of just planning.”
Gregory also says the priority right now is the trails used for the Summer Games.
“The trails are primarily by the Selo site and near the entrance way around Riding Mountain National Park. The trail that we are focusing on is for the 2020 Summer Games which is going to be involving the stage at the Selo site and that area there downhill towards the gravel road where everyone comes into Countryfest.”
Alex Man, a Trail Designer with Scatliff-Miller-Murray, presented the plans at the event and gives us some detail about what riders can expect.
“We’re using the Selo Ukraina site. There are some amazing valleys and ridges we’re going to use. There’s existing trails out there, we’re going to revamp them to more modern style mountain bike trails. They will be usable for trail runners as well, bird watchers, or dog watchers. The other part, the trailhead facilities are going to be the water treatment plant near Highway 10.”
Phase one of the project is the top priority, which includes the Manitoba 2020 track.
Man expects the summer games trail will be complete a year before the games to let the track settle in.
Also at the event was the announcement the bike group had raised over 250 thousand dollars since they started working on creating the trail project and another announcement about phase 2 is coming in a couple weeks.
