Creative trail Designs

Alsea Falls Mountain BIke TRail System

Creative Trail Designs is currently involved in constructing Misery Whip (0.8 miles of black diamond-rated trail), at the Alsea Falls Recreation Site and Mountain Bike Trail System (Alsea, Oregon). Eric and his team have extensive experience constructing mountain bike-specific natural-surface trails outside of Creative Trail Designs. Projects completed as volunteers with Team Dirt at Alsea Falls Recreation Site and Mountain Bike Trail System have included the design and construction of:

•     Lower Dutchman (0.5 miles of green-rated trail that included natural dirt jumps and berms),

•     Upper Highballer (0.5 miles of blue-rated trail), and

•     Lower Whistlepunk (0.5 miles of blue-rated trail that included the import of material for rock gardens).

Eric also spent 3 years as a Park Ranger and Trails specialist with the BLM at the Alsea Falls where he worked with BLM recreation planners, IMBA staff, Northwest youth corp groups, local IMBA chapter, Team Dirt volunteers as an on-site project staff member.

Creative Trail Designs worked on the Thurston Hills Multiuse Trail System (Springfield, Oregon), which involved constructing 3.5 miles of improved-gravel and natural-surface trails for multiuse recreation use in collaboration with Ptarmigan Trails.

The tread construction of this multiuse pathway included formation of tread base with aSWECO mini dozer, mini excavators, mini trackloaders, front end loaders for rock transport to conventionally inaccessable grades, plate compactors and ride on concrete buggies.

BlackRock Mountain Bike TRail System

Eric and his team have completed tread and technical trail feature work on Granny’s Kitchen 2 (2 miles of double black diamond-rated trail that incorporated man-made wooden features (e.g., walls, ramps, ladders, etc.), rock work and extensive drainage features to enhance the sustainability of the trail at Blackrock Mountain Bike Area.

Construction of these wooden technical features at this site required the use of chainsaws, Alaskan mills, portable bandsaw mills and advanced construction techniques to build safe and long lasting features to withstand rider use and exposure to natural environment from on site windfall timber.

Nestucca OHV Dirt Bike Trail system

Creative Trail Designs has collaborated with BLM staaff out of the Northwest district in Oregon on the Nestucca Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Site (natural-surface off-highway vehicle trail in Willamina, Oregon). These projects included the decommisioning of old sections of trail and rerouting non sustainble existing trail segments to make them resilient and available for use all year round.