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Thinking of buying a new home? Perhaps some neighborhood amenities would persuade you, like a gym or a community pool. Maybe a golf course or, I know, pickleball courts.
While some of these subdivision extras may be a nice touch (actually, I don’t know about golf or pickleball), a new neighborhood in Idaho is doing it right. The new housing development, Valnova, just outside of Boise, hired Braydon Bringhurst to build a bike park for the neighborhood. And when it is all said and done, Valnova’s Kirkhills Bike Park will be much more than just, well, a bike park.
If I buy a home right now, what am I riding?
“We just finished up the bike park,” Bringhurst told Singletracks. “It has three directional downhill trails — a green, a green/blue, and a blue.”
Along with the three DH trails, the new bike park also has a climbing trail and a “rhythm pump track for kids.” Bringhurst told us that it wasn’t a traditional circular pump track, but rather more like “two straight rhythms.” The track is designed essentially as two separate tracks, with rollers on one side and small “doubles” on the other. Both feed into a quick trail that leads riders back to the top of the tracks.…