Tude
Sometimes traveler is traveling.
Don't know if anyone does this - I do some dirt - this looks freaking awesome! Wonder if anyone has been through it before they came in with the track.
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Underground Bike Park Opens Monday
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By: Billy Brown
How do you design a bike park where it never rains and the temperature’s a steady 60 degrees all year round? Simple: Put it 100 feet underground.
Kentucky’s Louisville Mega Cavern is about to open as a 320,000-square-foot underground mountain bike park.
It comes complete with 12 miles of underground trails(!), including jump lines, a BMX park, pump tracks, dual slalom, and singletrack. We’ve never seen anything like it.
The park is slated for a “soft opening” on Monday, and reservations are requested in advance. If you’re in the area, make sure to call ahead. It’s BYOB (Bring Your Own Bike) for now, but the company hopes to have rentals set up as early as next month.
Learn more at LouisvilleMegaCavern.com.
From their website http://www.louisvillemegacavern.com/attractions/6/underground-bike-park
ABOUT MEGA BIKE
Are you ready to experience a one of a kind Underground Bike Park? Over 320,000 square feet including over 45 trails, Jump Lines, Pump Tracks, Dual Slalom, BMX, Cross Country and Single Track all in a former limestone cavern 100 feet sub-surface. Enjoy the comfort of our 60 degree temperature year round. Come experience what the buzz is all about. You simply won’t believe what you see.
MEGA UNDERGROUND BIKE PARK PHOTOS
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http://www.louisvillemegacavern.com/about/origin.html
ABOUT LOUISVILLE MEGA CAVERN: ORIGIN
The mine was founded by Ralph Rogers back in the 1930’s. He was a great visionary who saw the need for highways in this country especially to the south. He was said to be able to look at a site and tell you just how much rock that he could get out of it. His business did very well; especially back during the Depression of the 1930’s when the government put people back to work by supporting the construction of new roads and bridges.
The Louisville Mega Cavern is a 100 acre limestone cavern capable of shrugging off a 260-mph tornado and boasts a constant 58-degree temperature. The cavern under the Louisville Zoo has remained virtually dormant since the last load of limestone was mined nearly 20 years ago to build bridges and roads across the Midwest.
In the post 9-11 world, government agencies and high security businesses are looking for ultimate security, and the Underground offers just that. With limestone and earth between the cavern ceiling and the ground above, the cavern could withstand the most violent tornado or an airliner crash.
During the Cuban missile crisis in the early 1960s, state officials made plans in case of nuclear attack to house 50,000 people in the cavern because it's a natural bomb shelter. With four entrances, positioned close together, access is easily controlled by a series of security check points.
”Geologists say that this is the safest place in Kentucky," Jim Lowry, the co-owner, said.
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Underground Bike Park Opens Monday
20K+ shares /
By: Billy Brown
How do you design a bike park where it never rains and the temperature’s a steady 60 degrees all year round? Simple: Put it 100 feet underground.
Kentucky’s Louisville Mega Cavern is about to open as a 320,000-square-foot underground mountain bike park.
It comes complete with 12 miles of underground trails(!), including jump lines, a BMX park, pump tracks, dual slalom, and singletrack. We’ve never seen anything like it.
The park is slated for a “soft opening” on Monday, and reservations are requested in advance. If you’re in the area, make sure to call ahead. It’s BYOB (Bring Your Own Bike) for now, but the company hopes to have rentals set up as early as next month.
Learn more at LouisvilleMegaCavern.com.
From their website http://www.louisvillemegacavern.com/attractions/6/underground-bike-park
ABOUT MEGA BIKE
Are you ready to experience a one of a kind Underground Bike Park? Over 320,000 square feet including over 45 trails, Jump Lines, Pump Tracks, Dual Slalom, BMX, Cross Country and Single Track all in a former limestone cavern 100 feet sub-surface. Enjoy the comfort of our 60 degree temperature year round. Come experience what the buzz is all about. You simply won’t believe what you see.
MEGA UNDERGROUND BIKE PARK PHOTOS
__________________________
http://www.louisvillemegacavern.com/about/origin.html
ABOUT LOUISVILLE MEGA CAVERN: ORIGIN
The mine was founded by Ralph Rogers back in the 1930’s. He was a great visionary who saw the need for highways in this country especially to the south. He was said to be able to look at a site and tell you just how much rock that he could get out of it. His business did very well; especially back during the Depression of the 1930’s when the government put people back to work by supporting the construction of new roads and bridges.
In the post 9-11 world, government agencies and high security businesses are looking for ultimate security, and the Underground offers just that. With limestone and earth between the cavern ceiling and the ground above, the cavern could withstand the most violent tornado or an airliner crash.
During the Cuban missile crisis in the early 1960s, state officials made plans in case of nuclear attack to house 50,000 people in the cavern because it's a natural bomb shelter. With four entrances, positioned close together, access is easily controlled by a series of security check points.
”Geologists say that this is the safest place in Kentucky," Jim Lowry, the co-owner, said.
