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Blue River Parkway

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Trail Location: The trails are located in south Kansas City, along both sides...
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SpiderFest Thank You!

We would like to thank all of you for supporting ERTA in such a generous way. We had over 130 people in attendance this year! The event turned out to be a huge success despite receiving some stormy weather a few days before, which did prevent us from riding/running the single track. Luckily the event location has 40 miles of running and biking asphalt trails as well, so we still had the opportunity to get out and about, just not on the single track. 

SpiderFest is quickly becoming one of our largest sources of revenue for ERTA and will be very helpful for continuing our mission to bring more quality singletrack to the Kansas City region. With that in mind, we would like to acknowledge all of our sponsors and offer a huge THANKS to each and everyone of the companies and business whose goods and services allowed us to net over $4000 from the raffle! All proceeds go directly back into the local single track trail systems in the Kansas City metro area.

We are currently working on Spiderfest 2011 (4th Annual) and hope that you will plan to attend!

 

ERTA Frontpage News in KC Star

On Saturday, June 19th, the Kansas City Star featured the Swope Park trails and ERTA on the frontpage! The article by Star reporter EDWARD M. EVELD and photographer GARVEY SCOTT was entitled Volunteers Create Miles of Surprises. Below is the intro and links to the entire article.

kcstar-swopeKansas City always seems to be searching for an identity. How about this one: urban mountain biking capital?

What if KC were home to the country's longest middle-of-the-city trail system for mountain biking and hiking, a spectacular series of paths that squeeze through limestone outcroppings, skirt native glades and follow a twisting river route?

Working on it. Volunteer trail builders — with no fanfare and lots of sweat equity — just completed a phase of the planned trail inside Swope Park.

The total project is an urban mountain biking and hiking trail system more than 50 miles long. With perhaps no peer in the United States, it would surpass urban trails in cities considered far more outdoorsy than Kansas City.

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Rain, Rain, Go Away!

With all the rain we are getting as of late, I'm sure you all are just as frustrated with the lack of "trail time" as I am. But it is important that we stay off of the singletrack trails until they are dry enough to ride without leaving ruts and mudholes.

If you are new to mountain biking or trail running the lure of a "mud run" (or ride) might seem like a chance for a different trail adventure or challenge to be conquered, but the damage done to the trails by riding or running in wet conditions can lead to serious erosion problems and lots of man-hours to repair.

One way to keep abreast of trail closures due to weather is to follow KC Trail Status on twitter.com.

To get connected, go to http://twitter.com and follow KcTrailsStatus – its direct URL is http://twitter.com/KcTrailsStatus. As with any Twitter account, you can subscribe to an RSS feed, elect to receive SMS messages, etc.

New Walkway on Happy Jack


The South concrete cylinders crossing on Happy Jack has been suffering from "wash outs" for the last several years. Each time the repair last until the next big rain, but we lose a few cylinders each time. Today (5/30/2010) several of the "faithful" created a more permanent fix...an elevated walkway! What a fantastic addition to the trail system.
Also, over the last week at least a dozen different individuals have been "Earning their Dirt" by trimming and mowing various sections of the trail system. If you enjoy the Smithville Lake singletrack trails and would like to lend a hand in maintaining them, which is ALL done by volunteers, drop us an email.
Thanks to everyone for all your recent efforts!

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Trail Updates

KCtrailsStatus: #BRP open (Sasquatch1413)
KCtrailsStatus: #landahl open (Aaron)
KCtrailsStatus: #swope open (cstoeltzing)
KCtrailsStatus: #Lawrencearea LRT, Clinton and Perry are open (RR)

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