Tag: cheasty greenspace

March 24, 2014

Mountain biking in an urban forest? Cheasty MTB Park public meeting Tuesday

Tuesday is shaping up to be quite a packed bike meeting day. The Safe Roads Awareness Week kickoff walk is in the afternoon, then an open house for the second Ballard neighborhood greenway is in the evening. But if mountain biking is your passion, you may want to attend the Cheasty Greenspace Mountain Bike Pilot…
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tagged: beacon bike park, beacon hill, cheasty greenspace, cheasty greenspace mountain bike pilot project, meetings, rainier valley
January 9, 2014

Rather than change Parks policy, Board will consider Cheasty pilot MTB project – UPDATE: Passed

An exciting park restoration and mountain bike project in the Cheasty Greenspace on the eastern edge of Beacon Hill hit a roadblock last year: There is a long-forgotten Seattle Parks policy that prohibits bicycle use in parks. At first, organizers of the Cheasty Greenspace Trails and Bike Park were hoping to overturn the policy, but…
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tagged: beacon bike park, board of parks commissioners, cheasty greenspace
October 7, 2013

Parks Board will consider bikes-in-parks policy change, hear about neighborhood greenways

Volunteers with a dream of doing environmental rehab work and building a mountain bike park in Cheasty Greenspace will get the chance to earn the support of the Board of Park Commissioners. The meeting is 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Kenneth R. Bounds Park Board Room at 100 Dexter Ave. N. Beacon Bike Park (longer…
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tagged: beacon bike park, beacon hill, board of parks commissioners, cheasty greenspace, parks and recreation
April 22, 2013

Cheasty Trail and Bike Park project boosters call for support at levy meeting

There have been a lot of ups and downs in the past year for the Cheasty Greenspace Trails & Bike Park project (AKA Beacon Bike Park). With plans to mobilize huge numbers of volunteers to restore a section of Cheasty Greenspace, tucked between Beacon Hill and Rainier Valley. The park has few safe and easy…
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tagged: beacon hill, cheasty greenspace, mountain biking, rainier valley