Road cyclists have a new, longer option to ride at Enterprise South Nature Park, where a grand opening was held Tuesday for the paved Magnolia Loop trail.
Open to both cyclists and pedestrians, the 6-mile trail addition follows alongside the vehicle-only Still Hollow Loop around the perimeter of the 2,800-acre nature park.
“We had had multiple input from people in the public that wanted that a longer bicycle route,” Hamilton County Parks and Recreation Director Tom Lamb said, adding that Still Hollow Loop offers a pavement surface combined with gravel-like material that is steep in some areas and rough for road cyclists to use.
“They wanted some sort of shared path that traveled the same route where they had a nice long distance, lots of hills, decline.”
The $750,000 used to build the trail came from an anonymous donor, he said.