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| | Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board - Wirth Park Off-Road Cycling Pilot Project |
 | | Initiated to determine whether a sustainable, safe, and low-maintenance off-road cycling trail can be established in Wirth Park in a manner that protects natural resources, challenges off-road cyclists, and is compatible with other park uses, this trail was approved as a pilot project by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board in April 2004. |
 | | Developing suburban parks have been able to accommodate the new sport, but urban parks, established long before off-road cycling would come into its own, have been tailored for a host of other, long-existing uses. |
 | | Park users who use the area to bike, hike, walk, jog, etc. were counted and surveyed prior to the beginning of the project, and they will be counted and surveyed again at the end. |
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