Bermagui Dirtsurfers Mountain Bike Park is Closed for Logging

Anyone thinking of a MTB trip down the South Coast can kiss this excellent XC track off your list.

Unfortunately the day has finally come that the mountain bike park is going to be logged. We have been given notice by Forest NSW that logging is expected to commence on 18 July 2011, we have not been informed what the completion date is to be.

Forest NSW have included the club in on their planning process and we are hopeful that much of the track as it is will be preserved, should this not occur we will be seeking donated time and effort to get the track back to its former glory as soon as we can gain access to the area again, it is anticipated that there will be considerable work anyway, evidence of damage to the track by heavy machinery has been seen on the down hill berm section near Wallaga lake road, basically it is destroyed.

With this in mind the club race scheduled for August will be cancelled, we are hoping that the track will be open and ready to use again for the October race.

While the logging operations are active, access to the area is prohibited, this is primarily due to safety concerns, any person who accesses the area that is not authorised may commit an offence under the forestry act.

I had the pleasure of riding this a few years back. Let's hope the track can remain after the loggers have been through

More info: http://bermagui-dirtsurfers.org/