Nantahala SORBA Kids Bike Park collaboration project with the Rotary Club of Sylva.

1. Core Principle: Trails are good for people and
communities.
Goals
▪ Perform maintenance on existing trials
▪ Advocate for new opportunities to fill gaps in need

2. ▪ In 2018 over 500 hours of trail work
donated.
▪ Rerouting a problematic section of
trail at WCU.
▪ Lots of other advocacy for trails in the
region…

3. ▪ Jackson County Kids Bike Park
• Demonstrated need: 40,000 ppl/mo on
greenway, many are children on bikes
• Nearest remotely kid-friendly trails are
Jackrabbit (1.5 hours)
• MOU with Jackson County

7. HISTORY OF KIDS’ BIKE PROGRAMMING IN
JACKSON COUNTY

9. PROGRESS ON THE GREENWAY (Locust cut by Baxter Tree
Service to be milled by Trail Dynamics)

10. ROCK DONATED BY HARRISON
CONSTRUCTION

12. NEXT STEP - DIRT FROM EBCI SHAPED BY TRAIL DYNAMICS
(Examples from Travellers Rest and Pickens, SC)

13. Ideas for External Support - Educational Signage
(Examples from Boone, NC)

14. Ideas for External Support - Kiosk & Educational Signage
(Examples from Pickens, SC & Boone, NC)

15. Ideas - Kiosk & Educational Signage
(Examples from Pickens, SC)

16. Ideas - Kiosk & Educational Signage
(Examples from WCU, Tsali, & Fire Mountain)

17. BIG IDEA - KIOSK/OUTDOOR CLASSROOM CONCEPT?
- Could surround with/incorporate educational signage
(Examples from Cullowhee, NC, Pickens, SC, & Internet)
- Serve as reserved space for intentional programming
- Serve users of the Bike Park the rest of the time

18. Timeline of Completed & Proposed Phases
1. NAS and JCPR set vision, partnership, Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
2. NAS, JCPR, and Trail Dynamics identify and mark course (Completed)
3. County picks up and delivers to site 100 tons of gravel donated by Harrison Construction (Completed)
4. Locust trees identified, cut by Baxter's Landscaping and Tree Service, and delivered to site to be milled into
skill features (Completed)
5. Caution tape and temporary signage installed for safety and education (Completed)
6. Gravel moved by county using skid steer onto marked centerline of trail in 15"-high-in-the-middle, 24" wide
pile traveling the length of the trail in low-lying areas (Completed)
7. Gravel raked into 3'-wide foundational path by NAS and volunteers (Completed)
8. Dirt picked up at EBCI and moved to site (In Progress)
9. Dirt moved to trail and sculpted by Trail Dynamics (June or July)
10. Locust logs cut into features by Trail Dynamics (June or July)
11. Additional materials and features (wooden berms and roll-overs) donated by B. H. Graning Landscapes,
delivered and built by NAS (July or August)
12. Signage designed by NAS and JCPR and ordered/built by JCPR (August/September)
13. Grand feature (Kiosk/Outdoor Classroom/Educational Signage Center/Etc) designed in summer and
built in early Fall, pending funding, design, and approval process
14. Ribbon Cutting (Fall)