New bike trail coming to Petal

krue1971

The city of Petal and Mississippi Power are opening up some land for bmx, cyclocross and mountain bike trails to built this fall along the Leaf River. I would imagine the mtb trail will be multi-use like the other trails in the area, so we will have another exercise venue soon.

shonrecio

That sounds exciting, I will definitely have to check that out once I move closer to that area.

Mawskittykat

thanks for the info

krue1971

The trail is open to all users, about 3 miles with little elevation change but nice hardwood bottoms, very shaded and quiet considering it's location.

BarretScarbrough

That's pretty cool, any update on this? I live in Ellisville and will ride to the Industrial park which is a 3mi ride. About two weeks ago a friend and I went to the Long Leaf trace and went about 6mi, in a week or two we're going to do 10-15. It would be nice to have a local place for mountain biking, the only really cool place I know of is Bonita lakes in Meridian, they have a 3,300 acre park with over 15 miles of walking, horse, biking trails.

krue1971

There are 11 miles of single track trail off the Long Leaf Trace at Jackson Station, about 1/4 mile west of the parking lot. There are also about 3 miles of trail in Petal as of now.