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I-5 Colonnade skillpark

near Seattle, WA

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on Jun 22, 2020

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Avg: 3.2 (5 votes)

I-5 Colonnade is the first ever urban mountain bike skills park. It's part of a City of Seattle park, but was funded and constructed by the Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance (formerly Backcountry Bicycle Trails Club). The park features a novice area - the Tqalu Trail; an intermediate and advanced area - Limestone Loop; a dirt jumping section; pump track; trials area and more.

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status	date	description
	Jun 22, 2020 @ 2:49pm Jun 22, 2020	This place is running great, for the most part. It's been in rough shape for years, but some people are taking care of it now. All the jump lines... view
	Oct 30, 2019 @ 7:30pm Oct 30, 2019	Not worth checking out. A few tents on and under features that probably aren't rideable anyway. Bummer. view
	Oct 3, 2018 @ 10:53pm Oct 3, 2018	The northern half of Colonnade is rideable but the southern portion is returning to its place as being a homeless encampment even after the city... view
	Mar 17, 2018 @ 8:31pm Mar 17, 2018	I enjoyed my time riding at the I5 Colonnade. There are definitely some unridable features, some overgrown spots, but overall there's... view
	Feb 18, 2018 @ 8:24pm Feb 18, 2018	I visited on opening day, all those years ago, so I have a fair recollection of what this park once was. I also visited a year ago and encountered... view

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2 Comments

swartzie (Nov 15, 2015 at 17:29)

PLEASE, do not waste your time ... rode all over the place looking for 1 good line, didn't find it. There's a homeless man sleeping on Nick's Kicks while his "stockpile" is sitting on AWOL. There's a healthy pile of human feces on the pump track along with the bedsheets used to clean up. There a pack of drug dealers at the bottom of Limestone Loop. Where water actually made it to the ground after this 20" of rain the moon dust has turned into a slimy conconction of mud, water, discarded Cheetos bags, pieces of old mattresses, and Olde English tall boys. I'm extremely sad to see the hundreds of volunteer hours put into this very impressive skills area go completely to waste. Overgrown flora on the top and busted features all over. The graffiti in the bowls is actually kind of nice, gives a cool feeling on approach, however I was unable to ride it due to the scattered busted milk crates and homeless gold mines all over. On a positive note the off leash dog park was full of happy puppys and smiling latte drinking yuppies the entire time we were there!

jmahler TRAILFORKS (Apr 4, 2016 at 21:09)

Went to see it for the first time today. It is sad to see such an epic place fall in to disrepair. There were at least two homeless people who had well established camps under the structures and they did not look friendly.