Get those bikes ready.
Cypress Mountain Resort is bringing back its downhill mountain bike park with a revamp.
Cypress announced that BC Parks has approved the project under the resort’s existing Controlled Recreation Master Plan, allowing them to start work on the bike park.
Resort officials plan to open the bike park in summer 2027. It will be built on Black Mountain where riders can take a chairlift up and access the park.
The bike park’s return has been a long time coming. The resort operated a bike park as early as 2005, but Cypress closed down to prepare as a host venue for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Reviving and modernizing parts of the old route and adding new sections will take three years to finish, eventually offering beginner-to-advance flow and technical trails, jump lines, rock features and berms.
“Welcoming the mountain bike community back to Cypress after more than 20 years will be a special moment for us,” said Matt Davies, general manager for Cypress Mountain.
Park trail design, planning and building is being completed by Gravity Logic Inc., a Whistler-based bike park design and build firm.
“Cypress has great vertical, varied terrain, and a baked-in mountain bike culture and history that gives us a really strong starting point,” said Tom Pro from Gravity Logic. “We’ll be working with the natural terrain as much as practical and will pay close attention to water management to build trails that are fun, progressive, and sustainable.”
Public trails, Cypress Provincial Park areas and backcountry routes won’t be affected.
The resort said an environmental management plan is in place, setting out “how tree removal and other environmental impacts are being managed” while engagement was done with the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations and community groups throughout the process.
Gravity Logic and Cypress will start trail building this month until and continue until November, as weather permits.
Abby Luciano is the Indigenous and civic affairs reporter for the North Shore News. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative.
By Abby Luciano, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Original Published on Aug 12, 2026 at 19:01
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