Seattle Bike Park Rocks!

Every time I ride at Seattle’s Colonnade Bike Park, there is someone there for the first time who “just heard of it” - amazing. This place rocks. With thousands of volunteer hours, and a huge helping of their own hard work and creativity, the Backcountry Bicycle Trails Club (BBTC), has designed and built this park right off the northwest side of Seattle’s Capitol Hill. If you are a mountain biker, you need to check it out, but be careful - you will probably get addicted to a new level, and probably buy a new bike (or two) before you know it. On 2 acres of hill-slope and ingeniously located under the I-5 freeway decks (no rain here - ever!), the park features 1.5 miles of twisty single track trail, ladder bridges, skinnies, jumps, berms, chutes, pump track, wall rides, rock gardens - everything to please your aching mountain bike tooth. If you know what these things are, you know how cool this is. If you don’t, then you are about to enjoy a huge upgrade in life-happiness. The park is a perfect place to learn new bike skills or just have fun. I hit it about twice a week and it’s never enough.

Come by and check it out, the park is right off Seattle’s Lakeview Drive, under the freeway! There are always friendly folks hanging around, trying new things. And if you ask them, you might find a helpful expert who can help you take your own riding to the next level. Try the pump track. Try the skinnies. Hit the jumps. You’ll be back.

Thanks to our friends at BBTC for making it real! Check out more photos on our own gallery, or on BBTC’s official Colonnade page.