Funding Local Trails
Members, Sponsors, and Donors Make Trails Happen
Local trails are critical to a vibrant mountain biking community, but they don’t happen on their own.
Dedicated volunteers build and maintain eighteen trailheads (over 76 miles!), but they can’t do it without your support. Along with memberships, sponsors and donors help fund new trail construction, regular maintenance, and improvements, ensuring continued access to high-quality, local mountain biking.
Local support is critical to maintaining (and growing) quality riding experiences close to home!
A Two-Wheeled Economic Engine
According to the Outdoor Industry Alliance, mountain bicyclists represent approximately 3.4% of the U.S. population, or nearly 10.6 million riders.
While mountain bikers will travel to ride, they will only do so for high-quality trails. They are looking for mileage and experiences, such as traditional or bike-optimized singletrack, bike parks, and downhills with shuttles. The competition for these destination-quality locations is slowly increasing over time.
A case study in Cable, Wisconsin, at the center of 130 miles of singletrack, illustrates the benefits of a high-quality trail network. Construction of new trails in Cable resulted in increased property values, increased spending on bicycle-related goods, 35 jobs (adding $523,000 in compensation), and nearly $1.3 million in economic impact related to mountain biking.