City greenspace almost filled with mountain bike trails

By: John Ramos

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August 1, 2019

For the past twelve years, mountain bike trail-building has boomed in Duluth. Volunteers with the no...

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Kurt Kuehn August 1, 2019 At 12:19 pm

Also, since these now take up almost all of the “multi-use” trails, it can be incredibly dangerous to walkers/hikers. That and the fact that COGGS thinks they own the trails. What a bunch of BS for a few score people to completely be given carte blanche to take over all of our green space.

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- Leanne August 4, 2019 At 10:11 am
  
  I walk these trails almost every day. I have never had an issue with the bikes. When one comes by I step to the side and let them by. They are always polite and thank me for moving out of the way, in fact one stopped and told me that I have the right of way and don’t have to move out of the way…of course that would be stupid and a jerk thing to do.
  There’s also the Superior Hiking Trail where no bikes are allowed if you just can’t deal with stepping out of the way once or twice.
  
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  - Leanne August 4, 2019 At 10:14 am
    
    Superior Hiking Trail, where bike are NOT allowed.
    
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Charles Ramos August 2, 2019 At 1:10 pm

Wilderness is ok as long as it’s not too wild. Want some of our grizzlies? This one took out a mountain biker yesterday:

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/i-was-thinking-i-wasnt-going-to-make-it-survivor-of-grizzly-bear-attack-near-powell-river-tells-his-tale/ar-AAFcn2M?li=AA521o

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Don Youngdahl August 2, 2019 At 10:30 pm

I’m not a Duluth resident, but am an old guy who had a role 20 years ago in advocating for the great mountain bike trails we have in the Twin Cities. My response to any beefs about mountain bike access is that mountain bikers work their butts off to advocate for, plan, build, and maintain their trails. As a veteran of trail advocacy for hunting access, snowmobiles, X-C skis, dirt bikes, paved hike & bike, and mountain bikes, it’s pretty simple. You show up & work, and you get trails to use.

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- Kurt Kuehn August 4, 2019 At 12:16 pm
  
  I thought our taxes gave us the right to trails? I didn’t realize there was a labor component.
  
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Karl Oelhafen August 3, 2019 At 10:31 am

Nonsense, there is an entire hiking trail that runs through Duluth that mountain bikers can’t use. It’s called the Superior Hiking Trail. And hikers are more than welcome to use the bike trails we built.

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Ricker March 9, 2020 At 8:47 pm

I have seen so many of our youth out enjoying the multi-use trails which is great to see. I also like the fact that the mtb club is removing garbage and invasive species.

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