A “soft opening” was held for the new Prairie Rock Trails Bike Park in Mason City this week.

The park that’s located at 1500 Elm Drive is a world-class facility adjacent to the Lime Creek Conservation Area, connecting riders to more than 20 miles of trails and 600 acres of scenic parkland.

The idea of the bike park came about from the North Iowa Human Powered Trails organization of outdoor enthusiasts. The organization’s Matt Curtis says the park will draw people of all ages into Mason City. “This is absolutely amazing. To think what we have here today, I started riding out at Lime Creek in 1987 riding deer trails, and that was a long time ago. Didn’t know what mountain biking was at the time, we kind of invented it and made it our own, and it has progressed a long ways. To see these ki

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