Three to five 3/4-mile mountain bike trails featuring jumps, ramps, obstacles, and spectator areas could open at the Quarry Trails Metro Park as soon as this fall, per the Columbus Dispatch.
"This has a chance of being the first publicly accessed area in the park," Metro Parks executive director Tim Moloney told the Dispatch's Mark Ferenchik.
The trails’ completion will mark another step forward in the transformation of the former limestone quarry at the intersection of Dublin and Trabue roads into both a 220-acre Metro Park and a mixed-use development of standalone homes, apartments, and almost 80,000 square feet of commercial real estate.
Wagenbrenner Development is responsible for the mixed-use portion of the project.
The mountain bike trails, which are being installed at a cost of $400,000 to Metro Parks, will provide options for riders of various skill levels. The project is one spoke of the $2.5 million in improvements Metro Parks is making to Quarry Trails this year.
"I think demand [for the trails] will be very high," Heidi Coulter of the Central Ohio Mountain Biking Organization told the Dispatch.
Locals won’t be the only ones taking advantage of the mountain bike trails thanks to a planned connection of Quarry Trails to the Ohio to Erie Trail, a northeast-southwest bicycling and hiking pathway stretching across the Buckeye State with trailheads in Cincinnati (the Ohio River) and Cleveland (Lake Erie).
The south central region of the Ohio to Erie Trail intersects McKinley Avenue southeast of Harrison Road.
Quarry Trails has been in development since 2017 and, once open, will be the twentieth park in the Columbus and Franklin County Metro Parks system.
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