MTB Missoula To Provide Free Season Long MTB Rentals For Kids
Missoula, Montana's local trail organization, MTB Missoula, has launched its one of a kind "bike library," a program providing kids with free season long bike and lock rentals and helmets to keep.
The program is officially open for applications and rentals are good from April 13th through October 10th.
MTB Missoula's director, John Stegmaier, announced the launch of the program at a preseason town hall on April 4th alongside some other very exciting news for the community. Just a matter of days before the meeting last Thursday, MTB Missoula secured a $100,000 grant from the state to break ground on the first stage of expansion at Marshall Mountain, the city's local trail zone.
The funding will be enough to build a dedicated climb trail - Missoulians can commiserate over how brutal the current climb is - a blue flow trail connecting the bottom of Hello Kitty to the base, a short loop at the base, and an adaptive MTB friendly trail. Also on the docket is a hand cut continuation of Bjorn Again, the hill's downhill track.
Overall, the progress MTB Missoula has made in 2024 has reignited hope among the local mountain biking community who, for years, have feared that trail development in the region was doomed to take decades.
The work at Marshall is scheduled to break ground in the middle of July with the hopes of having at least two of the trails ready by the end of the season.
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