Building trails for the people!

For over 20 years, the Calgary Mountain Bike Alliance (CMBA) has been building and maintaining sustainable singletrack trails in the Calgary and Kananaskis area. We are committed to creating safe, world-class trails and skills parks. We strive to grow a passionate and involved mountain bike community.

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Founded in 1996 to represent the growing community of mountain-bikers, the CMBA has been part of Calgary’s mountain biking scene for over 25 years. Always volunteer-driven, the focus has gradually evolved and shifted based on the needs of the time, volunteers’ interests and the opportunities and relationships that have been developed. Initial efforts were successful in securing the right of mountain bikers to use the informal and formal trails in Bowmont Park and Nose Hill, when a ban had been threatened. In the late 90’s and early 00’s, the focus shifted to trail maintenance and efforts to get a bike skills park built somewhere in Calgary.

Over the last 20 years, as the CMBA’s relationships with the City and Province have grown stronger, the focus moved away from advocacy toward trail-building and trail maintenance, working in collaboration with the land managers. Numerous trails were built or improved in areas across the city. The Ridgeback trail in Kananaskis was constructed by the CMBA in 2009-10 and upgraded in 2015. In 2016, the CMBA was finally successful in building Calgary’s first public mountain bike skills park in Fish Creek Provincial Park. On the heels of the new Alberta Trails Act (2022), a new trail development project was initiated in the Jumpingpound Creek area of Kananaskis and construction began in 2024.

Kananaskis – Public Lands

In Kananaskis, the CMBA built the 9km Ridgeback trail in 2009-10 and has taken responsibility for maintaining it and the legacy Moosepackers trail since that time. Excitingly, in 2024 we’re kicking off the construction of the ‘Jumped Up Loops’, which will create a small stacked-loop trail system based on the Jumpingpound Loop!

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Fish Creek Provinicial Park – Alberta PARKS

Fish Creek PP is located within Calgary but as a Provincial Park it’s managed by Alberta Parks. Most single-track trail maintenance has been on hold for a few years pending publication of the Trails Master Plan. The CMBA was consulted and made many contributions to the plan. We’re hoping that we can get things moving again very soon.

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The City of Calgary

The CMBA worked closely with the City for several years and built and maintained trails in Bowmont Park, 12 Mile Coulee and Paskapoo Slopes (‘Eastlands’). Since a recent re-org and policy changes at the City, it’s been difficult for volunteers to perform any trail maintenance on City lands. We remain in communication about unpaved trails.

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