West Salem Bike Playground
The West Salem Bike Recreation Area Project as proposed, is a wheeled sports playground designed to provide recreation opportunities to all ages and abilities of users. The design concept is to provide an area where the experience is both sustainable and enjoyable for a broader spectrum of wheeled sport users, while offering options for multiple uses at once. A variety of amenities and features make this multi-faceted playground a crowd-pleaser.
A design draft from Rock Solid Trail Contracting shows our basic concept for the bicycle playground. There are features for all skill levels, including strider bikes all the way up to skilled riders.
The concept utilizes existing terrain features and incorporates an intermediate flow track with a smaller entry level track. A ‘stroll and roll’ path connects the parking area to the point and allows users to hop on and off wherever they please along the way. To wrap it all up, we’ll add some light landscaping and signage!
An example of a wheeled sports park found locally is the Lueth Park Pump Track and Bicycle Playground in La Crosse.
Video Credit: David Nash
Stop in at Le Coulee Cheese Castle to purchase your ticket for a chance to win a PBJ Chromoly Steel 26″ Bike worth $2,000! Tickets are $20 each, only 250 sold!
*Raffle tickets will also be sold at the West Salem Bike Playground launch party Friday, April 26th, at Lewis Point Park from 10:30am-1:00pm!
Proceeds from this raffle will help support this project! Drawing June 5th, 2024!
Thank you to Coulee Bicycle for donating the bike!
Do you love this project as much as we do? Help us get it going by donating to it. (Pick West Salem Bike Playground in the drop-down)
It’s been a while since you participated in our community input survey for the West Salem Bike Playground Project. We had overwhelming participation and support, so we owe you a big THANK YOU for providing input.
The West Salem wheeled sports playground is designed to provide recreation opportunities to all ages and abilities of users. We requested your input, and you blew us away with your participation. We heard what you asked for and are aiming to build a paved wheeled sports playground that is both beginner and youngster friendly, sustainable, and has enough interesting features that experienced users will also have a blast. A variety of amenities and features make this multi-faceted playground design a crowd-pleaser.
We had the opportunity in late Spring of 2022 to present this project in front of the West Salem Recreation Committee, as well as the Village Board. Both Parties approved the initial proposal and Lewis Point Park as the project site. This was the green light we needed to be able to initiate the planning and design phase with professional builders.
