News/Events

The Tuesday night (28 Jan) ride at Harwood's and Wednesday (29 Jan) retirees ride are canceled this week. We're giving the trails time to dry out, especially Harwood's. If you ride there solo, then be careful of the entrance to the "B" trail; it's become a mudpit. We'll be fixing that later this week.

SATURDAY 18 JAN, 8 AM - 12 PM - Harwood's trails are closed for the annual foot race supported by Newport News Parks.

Friday 4:00 PM is ON, Saturday is cancelled.  Explanation below.

• Friday: meet at 4:00 PM along the park road at access C1 (near park entrance) to help unload 2 tons of turfstones.  We have 5 people confirmed and could use only a few more.  Bring work gloves.
• Saturday - CANCELLED: The plan was to meet at 10:00 AM and haul a 4-ton trailer load of purchased dirt to use along with the turfstones to rebuild a berm on trail C.  But our dirt supplier (JSG, next to Freedom Park) is not loading dirt now because their dirt source is still covered in snow.  So we considered some smaller projects using pushpiles of dirt at Freedom Park, but one of our project leaders was on site and said that the ground is frozen and digging will be no good.
• So we’ll look for the earliest chance to reschedule, which will probably be at least a few weeks out.  Sorry!

Tonights ride at Freedom is a go.  6 PM. 

UPDATE - Tuesday's night ride at Harwood's, Wednesday retirees ride, and Wednesday's night ride at New Quarter are all canceled. The Thursday night ride at Freedom is waiting on word from the park. Stay tuned.

The Tuesday night ride at Harwood's and the Wednesday retirees ride are canceled. Trails will take awhile to dry out.

We have some Southsiders who want to meet up at Wahrani Nature Trail Sat, Dec 28 at 10:30 AM.  Join us for a guided tour of the best route to ride to maximize the fun.

Meet in the parking lot just past the pay station BEFORE 10:30 AM to get rolling right at 10:30 AM.  We'll ride Marl Ravine Trail.  And maybe some other short stuff afterwards if anybody is up for it.  Thanks to Steven Godoy for suggesting and leading this ride.

Night Ride schedule for Christmas and New Year’s weeks:

•          Tues, Dec 24, NO RIDE at Harwoods Mill
•          Weds, Dec 25, NO RIDE at NQ Park
•          Thurs, Dec 26, YES RIDE at Freedom Park (weather dependent)
•          Tues, Dec 31, NO RIDE at Harwoods Mill
•          Weds, Jan 1, YES RIDE at NQ Park (weather dependent)
•          Thurs, Jan 2, YES RIDE at Freedom Park (weather dependent)

As of about 9:30 AM on Friday, 12/13/24, Freedom Park trails re-opened to bikes after having been closed Wednesday and Thursday due to rain. 

If you sign up for the James City County rain-out line you'll get push notifications for trail openings/closings.  See separate News & Events post on EVMA.org for details.