Olympic course designers creating South Lake Tahoe BMX park

The company that has built the BMX tracks for three Olympics, 40 World Cups and 10 World Championships is in South Lake Tahoe to build the Bijou Bike Park. Alex Fowler of Elite Trax, Inc has been in Rio de Janeiro building the track for the 2016 Summer Olympics, but he is much happier being in South Lake Tahoe creating what bicycle enthusiasts have been envisioning for year.

"I love it," said Fowler a former professional rider and now track builder. "I'm very excited to be in Tahoe to start this project." The Santa Cruz, CA resident has always been fond of Lake Tahoe and happy to be in town.

The dirt at Bijou Community Park has been moved and is being molded into something the South Lake Tahoe community will be able to use and enjoy by the beginning of October.

He's been at the site every day, and joined by City staff who are moving dirt as well as Bijou Bike Park Association volunteers. Everything is being created on site except for some wood features which will arrive once completed.

The size of the BMX and mountain bike portions of Bijou Bike Park are almost the same size as the Olympic BMX track Fowler and Elite Trax are building in Brazil. Their team will remain there during the 2016 games to officiate, and then remain to turn the temporary tracks into a permanent Legacy Park just as they have at the previous Olympic sites so the public can enjoy the spoke long after the games.

Members of the Bijou Bike Park Association (BBPA) presented the original project to the City of South Lake Tahoe back in September of 2011, and since then they've been working non-stop in their efforts to create the park. They are out volunteering on the course each week. The BBPA is a partnership between the Tahoe Area Mountain Bike Association (TAMBA) and SLT BMX. Find out more information on their website.