Getting Some Air in Cherokee County: Bike Park Gives Woodstock a New Place to Play
Sure you can ride your mountain bike just about anywhere but there’s nothing like riding miles of winding hand-built single track (just wide enough for one) through the forests of North Georgia. But where? Unfortunately, mountain bikes have been unceremoniously kicked out of public parks all over the Southeast for their tendancy to erode paths built for hikers and even collide with the hikers themselves. The solution? Well if you live in Woodstock Georgia, you wrangle your own park and build your own trail.
The Southeast Off-Road Bicycle Organization (SORBA) is responsible for the wildly popular Blankets Creek trail system that skirts Blankets Creek at the edge of Lake Allatoona. Other nearby SORBA projects include Atlanta’s Morningside Nature Preserve trail that links Midtown Atlanta with Buckhead through a 30 acre forested trail, and Big Creek Park in Roswell.
BLANKETS CREEK
Almost entirely built by hand by a team of volunteers, Blankets Creek Park is Cherokee County’s only designated bike park and is proving itself to be one of the state’s...