The greater Cincinnati metro area is home to 2.3 million people, and by 2030, it’s going to have nearly 1,000 miles of singletrack trails and paved greenways connecting the entire region. That isn’t a typo: the Northern Kentucky Regional Trails Plan (NKYRTP) calls for 934 miles of interconnected trails sprawling across an area roughly the size of Rhode Island.
The Cincinnati Off-Road Alliance (CORA) is orchestrating a spiderweb of 375 miles of mountain bike-legal singletrack, plus another 506 miles of paved paths, all designed to connect 20 bike parks scattered throughout the metro area. Last year, we reported on the Avoca Trailhead project — one piece of this massive puzzle.
And it’s all slated to be built — or at least in the works — by 2030.
Lofty goals for CORA
“It used to be that we’d sit there and say we want X number of trails and miles by this year and that year, and this many members,” Jason Reser, CORA’s Executive Director, told us. “The numbers were just kind of out of the blue.”…