Mountain Bike Skills Park in Seattle

This is wild. These are pics from the I-5 Colonnade Mountain Bike Skills Park in Seattle. The park, largely funded and built by local volunteers is a 7.5 acre urban mountain bike course carved into the dead space under the raised freeway.






Raised urban freeways are often an open wound on a city, cutting a dark, unattractive swath that creates a sometimes real, sometimes perceived barrier between neighborhoods and acts as a magnet for undesirably behavior like drugs and prostitution. The Bike Skills Park drove out that element and set a standard for remaking unused urban space into a unique recreational environment.

I want one.

Our space under I95 is probably too small, although I suppose theirs no rule it has to be under a bridge. Maybe the ball field next to the Skate Park at Scalzi?