New Trail in Superior (looking SE) - Photo Credit: 303Cycling

With all the talk and news about trail access and new trails in Boulder, Superior is quietly becoming a great biking town with out alot of fan fair. If you have not seen the bike park they are building you should check it out.

A new trail, in old town Superior, opened recently and I finally got a chance to ride it today. It completes what is known as the Dirty Bismarck (or Dirty Morgul). Basically a dirt version of the Morgul Bismarck. The Dirty Bismarck consists of the following trails:

• Mayoffer-Singletree Trail
• Meadowlark Trail
• Coalton Trail
• High Plains Trail
• Greenbelt Plateau
• Community Ditch
• Cowdrey Draw

The new trail starts at the corner of 3rd Avenue and Thomas St in Superior and heads south toward the Colition Trail (McCaslin and Coalition Drive). The trail is super smooth and today I road my road bike on the trail. I didn't get an exact length but if I were to guess its probably a couple miles long.

I have now completed the Dirty Bismarck loop. I parked at the new trail head at the round-about at McCaslin and Coalition Drive. The complete loop is almost 15 miles with an elevation gain of close 1000 feet. I am glad I used my mountain bike because a few sections are fairly rocky. Check out the trail and let us know what you think.

From the Daily Camera

When Jerad Fischer started digging to build jumps at Eaton Park, he was shoveling on his knees.

"I shattered my ankle 18 months ago, and I haven't been able to get out on a bike, so I started going out there, because digging was my hobby," said Fischer, 31.

Fischer is part of a passionate crew of local mountain bikers who have been revamping and improving the dirt jumps at Eaton Park, in Gunbarrel. (The riders simply call it "Gunbarrel.")

Though there have been jumps there for years, the digging gained speed in the fall. It all started with a web search by Kevin Rauhauser, a CU student who grew up in Boulder and learned to ride in Gunbarrel.

Read the rest at Daily Camera

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Boulder's Pearl Street bike corral program to get formal study

Residents offering mostly high praise for test program
By Heath Urie Camera Staff Writer

What has been an informal survey about the popularity of two new "bike corrals" installed on opposite ends of the Pearl Street Mall will soon become part of a formal study to help determine the future of parking along the popular pedestrian mall.

The city installed the corrals last September, in an experiment to see how people respond to trading a traditional vehicle parking spot for an on-street bike rack with room for up to eight bicycles.

So far, the experiment seems to be a roaring success.

"Even in the middle of winter, we are seeing that people are using them and that bike parking is being well utilized along both blocks," said Marni Ratzel, Boulder's bicycle and pedestrian planner.

The city has been soliciting feedback from residents about the corrals for the last five months via its Web site, goboulder.net. So far, at least 40 people have commented about the bike racks.

"Most of the feedback we've gotten is that these are great," Ratzel said.

Only about three comments have been from people upset about losing parking spaces along the mall.

"Others said, 'now there's less parking for me,'" she said.