We often hear a lot of rumors and misinformation swirling around about the bike park. We’d like to set the record straight on some of the most common misleading statements we’ve heard about the park…
“Shadow Mountain Bike Park will have 700+cars visiting the park daily.”
FALSE: our parking lot will accommodate a maximum of 300 vehicles and visitation will be managed with a parking reservation system. We do not expect the parking lot to be at capacity everyday the park is open.
“Shadow Mountain Bike Park will add unsustainable strain to local EMS resources.”
MISLEADING: we will have our own EMS resources/facility on site and do not believe the park will increase the current workload of local EMS resources. We believe the park has the potential to reduce mountain bike related incidents that local EMS resources need to respond to.
“Shadow Mountain Bike Park will be a forest fire risk to the Conifer and Evergreen areas.”
MISLEADING: Our team will perform forest fire mitigation and forest management on the entire property, making it much less of an ignition risk than it is today. Also, professionally managed recreational assets do not have a history of being material forest fire risks to the communities they are in.
“Shadow Mountain Bike Park will be developing and destroying a large meadow/wetland that exists on Shadow Mountain Drive.”
FALSE: the proposed site for shadow mountain bike park includes less than 10% of that meadow, and the team has engineered the site plan to impact that 10% as little as possible. The remainder of the meadow is privately owned.
“The SMBP property is state land and is not supposed to be used for development.”
FALSE: The State Land Trust has a mandate to generate revenue from their property holdings through land leasing and speculation. The SLT has disposed of 30k+ acres in Jefferson County for the purpose of development.
“The Shadow Mountain Bike Park team passed on a partnership with Echo Mountain in favor of the Shadow Mountain Location.”
FALSE: our team never had conversations with Echo Mountain about a partnership.
“Shadow Mountain Bike Park will do irreparable damage to wildlife that currently leverage the property.”
MISLEADING: Compared to other types of development that could be sited on the property we believe the bike park will be minimally impactful.
“The Shadow Mountain Bike Park team is funded by a large company from another state.”
FALSE: Shadow Mountain Bike Park was founded in Colorado and has been funded by local individuals in Jefferson County that are passionate about the project.
“The chairlift for the park will be a noise burden to people living near the park.”
FALSE: The park’s chairlift will produce roughly 70 decibels of noise under full load. That 70 decibels is inside the lift terminal, not outside of it. Your average washing machine produces about 70 decibels of noise.
