Cypress Bike Park Coming Summer 2027
The North Shore's original bike park is coming back — redesigned, reinvented, and built for how the sport is ridden today.
The Return
Cypress has a longer history with mountain biking than most riders realize. Mountain biking has been an approved activity on this mountain since 2004, and Cypress built and operated a bike park in summer 2005 before pausing to be one of the host venues for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
More than 20 years later, we're bringing it back — not as a nostalgia project, but as a fully modern bike park designed from the ground up for today's riders.
The Vision
Cypress Bike Park will offer lift-accessed riding for every kind of mountain biker: flowy jump trails for those who love to build speed and catch air, technical lines for riders chasing a bigger challenge, and beginner-friendly runs for those just getting into the sport.
This isn't about recreating what existed here in 2005. It's about applying two decades of advances in trail design — elevation, variety, and a corridor with history already built into it — and building something that holds up to the standard riders expect from a lift-accessed bike park today.
BUILT RIGHT
Trail design, planning, and building is being led by Gravity Logic Inc., a Whistler-based bike park design and build firm behind lift-accessed trail networks across North America.
The build is proceeding under an Environmental Management Plan that governs how tree removal and other impacts are managed. The bike park sits entirely within Cypress Mountain Resort's Controlled Recreation Area — it does not close, reduce, or reroute access to any public trail, park area, or backcountry route, during construction or once the park is open.
Cypress has engaged with the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations, along with community groups, throughout this process — and that dialogue continues as work proceeds.
Build Updates
Follow our progress as we build. This section will track building milestones.
| 2005 | Cypress Bike Park opened for the first time |
|---|---|
| 2010 | Cypress hosted 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games and paused bike park operations |
| 2026 | Cypress Bike Park is approved to open in summer 2027 |
Build Plan
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Red Bull Hardline
Our return to mountain biking starts before the bike park opens. Cypress hosts the Canadian debut of Red Bull Hardline — widely regarded as the world's toughest downhill mountain bike race — October 16–17, 2026, bringing the sport's top riders, including Canadians Jackson Goldstone and Gracey Hemstreet, to Cypress Mountain Resort.
FAQ
A lift-accessed mountain bike park will be built on Black Mountain at Cypress Mountain Resort, about 30 minutes from downtown Vancouver. Riders take a chairlift up and ride purpose-built downhill trails back down — much like a ski hill operates in winter. It is a recognized all-season use of an alpine resort, and it operates within Cypress's existing Controlled Recreation Area.
Gravity Logic Inc., a Whistler-based mountain bike park design, build and consulting firm with experience across lift-accessed bike parks throughout North America. Gravity Logic is leading design, planning and build for every phase of the project.
Both. The park is being designed for a full range of riders, balancing beginner-accessible flow trails with terrain that keeps more experienced riders engaged, rather than building toward one end of the spectrum only.
It's phased over three years, with lower-impact work first. Early building is concentrated on existing trail corridors, access roads and ski runs that have already seen prior use, rather than starting in more sensitive terrain.
BC Parks has classified the Cypress Bike Park as a Category 1 activity under the resort's Controlled Recreation Area (CRA) Master Plan, clearing the way for Phase 1 to begin. Phase 1 work is expected to run from August through November 2026. Later zones will proceed through the same phased approval process, with no confirmed dates yet for those stages.
No. The bike park sits entirely within the resort's existing Controlled Recreation Area. It doesn't close, reduce or reroute access to any public trails, park area or backcountry routes — during the build or once the park is operating.
Mountain biking has been an approved activity on Black Mountain for three decades, dating back to a 1995 public commission and the 1997 Cypress Park Master Plan. Lift-assisted mountain biking specifically was approved in the 2004 CRA Master Plan update. What's new is that BC Parks has now confirmed the Category 1 classification for this build, which allows work to move forward.
Yes. An independent environmental assessment was completed, and two Construction Environmental Management Plans (CEMPs) have been finalized, covering drainage, vegetation and stream protection.