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Bellingham Dirt Jump Park website! The Bellingham DJ Park is now officially open.
NEWS (April 2005):
Over the past few weeks Pat along with volunteers from the community, WWU
Cycling, GoHuckYourself.com and the WHIMPs have been putting in some time to
fix the park up. The baby line has been removed and a few tables will
replace it. In the coming weeks the park will be Hydroseeded to grow grass
on the none jump faces per the original plans. Check out some of the latest
photos, links are below.
Special Thanks to:
David Waugh, Ben Cashman, Mark Peterson, WHIMPs, RAM Construction, Freeland
& Associates, Leslie Bryson, The City of Bellingham,
Granite Precast, Milt, Brad, Vaughn, WWU Cycling Club,
Clark's Cycle, Kulshan Cycles, and everyone else who has helped in anyway
possible. Without all of your help we wouldn't have such an awesome park.
Photo: Matt Plude - June 9, 2004 - Puget Street
Brief Overview:
In November of 2002, David Waugh, an eighth-grader at Assumption Catholic
School, fired off an e-mail to Mayor Mark Asmundson, saying that Bellingham
needed a place for dirt-jumping enthusiasts to go.
Seven months later the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board approved a plan
to turn an area on Puget Street north of the Bellingham Skate Park into a
community dirt jump park. Volunteers from the WHIMPs, Western Washington University
Cycling Club, and other community members have agreed to put in whatever
grunt work is required to complete this project. Freeland & Associates have
prepared a site plan which has been approved and will see the project
through to completion and RAM Construction will be donating hours of heavy
machinery work to prepare the jumps.
(Some information taken from published article: Fiona Cohen, The
Bellingham Herald)
News Archives
Site Photos: Provided by Jim Tagart and Matt Plude
March 2005
1 - The Park
2 - Adjoining Skate Park
3 - Right side berm
Initial Construction Complete (6/9/04):
1 - The starting area mound
2 - The big line
3 - Drainage ditch
4 - From the right side of the starting mound
5 - On the big line looking towards smaller lines
6 - From the small line looking towards Puget Street
Construction:
1 - Site leveling & surveying
2 - Bringing in the dirt
3 - The big dirt moving
4 - Checking out the progress
5 - Jumps finally appear
Site Plans provided by Freeland & Associates:
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More Information regarding the Bellingham Dirt Jump Park can be found at
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