CRAMBA: Clinton River Park Trail (Dodge Park Trail)

[Mack]

I rode this trail trail today and was pleasantly suprised. It was a lot of fun. The trail was in great shape. Nothing was down or in need of repair or trimming. Hats off to the crew that keeps this up!

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the trail.

[madmike23]

I live on the Troy Sterling Hts border. It awesome to have a nivce trail that is close. I don't always have an extra hour to add for drive time. There seems to be a lot of room for expansion in there. Do ou guys have plans for building more?

Thanks again.

[Mack]

I live on the Troy Sterling Hts border. It awesome to have a nivce trail that is close. I don't always have an extra hour to add for drive time. There seems to be a lot of room for expansion in there. Do ou guys have plans for building more?

Thanks again.

Actually there is not alot of room for expansion. Most of the park land is in a floodplain. When you are riding
the ridges evrything below you is in the floodplain, and in the ridges we are already to close to the property lines of those who border the park, you must have a green belt.There are future plans to make a return trail, but
there will always be 2 way trail. Some of trail is built in the flood plain out of necessity. I really don't
want to build anymore trail in it, It's just to problematic. We have two more bridges and
some berms to build, then we will look at the feasibility of building a return trail.

[2slo2endo]

Trail is in great shape! rode it last night, finished in the dark, just 1 wet patch, easily avoided.

[J-Rod]

Just wanted to give some major props to the guys that built/maintain this trail. Tonight was my first night out on it (I'm a product of Stoney and Addison) and throughly enjoyed myself! I live 10 minutes away from Dodge Park and never have been on the single track; I've been missing out! You've done a great job with the limited space and terrain that you've been given. 3 miles makes a perfect trip X 4 Loved the technical stuff too... especially the 2' drop

I'll be out there more when I don't have the time to fight traffic getting up to Stoney or Addison! As long as it's dry... which it's perfect out there right now. Just gotta watch out for the army of squirrels, especially the 4 suicidal ones that ran in front of me as I was barreling thru the trail!

[Mack]

Just wanted to give some major props to the guys that built/maintain this trail. Tonight was my first night out on it (I'm a product of Stoney and Addison) and throughly enjoyed myself! I live 10 minutes away from Dodge Park and never have been on the single track; I've been missing out! You've done a great job with the limited space and terrain that you've been given. 3 miles makes a perfect trip X 4 Loved the technical stuff too... especially the 2' drop

I'll be out there more when I don't have the time to fight traffic getting up to Stoney or Addison! As long as it's dry... which it's perfect out there right now. Just gotta watch out for the army of squirrels, especially the 4 suicidal ones that ran in front of me as I was barreling thru the trail!

Thanks for the kind words! Glad you enjoyed your first of what I hope will be many great rides on the trail.

[2slo2endo]

Trail in great shape right now - broke out the light last night - had a ball - saw about 20 deer if different places unless the same 4 were stalking me!!!

[Mack]

Trail is very dry, but riding great right now. As soon as we get a couple of good frosts, mozzies are still pretty bad. We are going to have a trail day, to build
4 berms in the new Switch Back section . I will post the date when the time comes.

[FLIPMODES]

Trail is very dry, but riding great right now. As soon as we get a couple of good frosts, mozzies are still pretty bad. We are going to have a trail day, to build
4 berms in the new Switch Back section . I will post the date when the time comes.

I'm looking forward to helping out on the trail day depending on what day it falls on. Should I bring a shovel?

[Mack]

Trail is very dry, but riding great right now. As soon as we get a couple of good frosts, mozzies are still pretty bad. We are going to have a trail day, to build
4 berms in the new Switch Back section . I will post the date when the time comes.

I'm looking forward to helping out on the trail day depending on what day it falls on. Should I bring a shovel?

It wil be on a Saturday for sure. Yes bring your shovel.

[turbotoad]

Finally got out to check out the CRPT today after work. It has been about 35 years since I had been in those very woods.......you see, I grew up literaly across the road from the DPW and used to ride dirt bikes back there in the mid 70's. I moved from the area to Waterford in 1977 so, it was a chance to go back to some of my childhood stomping grounds. I rode the single track from the Edison entrance to the 53 bridge and then rode the paved path beyond 53. Then returned to Farmstead Park where I detoured to ride past my old house, Elementary school, and Junior high school. Re-entered the trail at theFarmstead Park and returned back to my car (apprx 10.5 miles total).

First impressions of the trail.......Kinda flat and open (I'm used to Holdridge, Bald Mtn, Pontiac Lake, etc.), a LOT of the corners, especially East of the skills area are off-camber & a very dry hard-packed surface (w/slight dusting of sand/debrit). It semed to make these corners slow and sketchy. Perhaps some berming or bench cutting could improve their flow? And while pretty well marked I did find myself going the wrong way or missing a turn hear & there. But overall it is a fun trail for what/where it is. There has obviously been a lot of hard work put into the trail and I'm sure it will continue to get better.

[Mack]

CRPT WILL BE CLOSED: Beginning Monday October 1st from 7:00AM to 5:00PM. Loop "D" and the
path from Dodge Park bridge to the Farmstead access will be closed from 7am to 5pm Monday
thru Friday. Consumers Energy will be replacing a section of high pressure gas line that runs
under the river the work wil continue through the month of October. Here is a map showing the
affected points of closure. I will post information as it comes in.
https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=8 ... sp=safe&zw

[c0nsumer]

Unfortunately the Long Bridge in CRPT had a tree fall on it. It looks to have been a glancing blow, but it did damage to a couple of the stringers and posts.

Here's some photos taken today of the damage: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4.

One of the TCs has already been out to take a look at it, so I'm sure it'll get fixed soon. One side of the bridge is soft, but it's ridable.

[Mack]

Unfortunately the Long Bridge in CRPT had a tree fall on it. It looks to have been a glancing blow, but it did damage to a couple of the stringers and posts.

Here's some photos taken today of the damage: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4.

One of the TCs has already been out to take a look at it, so I'm sure it'll get fixed soon. One side of the bridge is soft, but it's ridable.

We got very lucky, had that tree fallen directly on the bridge it would have been a complete rebuild for the section that
it hit. Aaron got out last night and cleaned it up. He is going to get out today and put some bracing on the section that was
damaged. Please use caution on the bridge till we get it repaired.

[Roy]

That is one strong bridge! It is actually more fun to ride now. It is to bad it needs to be repaired.
The pipe line is now elevated. Will it eventually get buried? If not will we lose a lot of the last reroute?

Roy