Cypress Bike Park: Coming Summer 2027
North Shore’s original bike park returns to Cypress Mountain Resort, redesigned around modern trail-building and rider progression
WEST VANCOUVER, BC —August 12, 2026 — Cypress Bike Park, the North Shore’s original bike park, is returning to Cypress Mountain Resort, redesigned and reinvented for how the sport is ridden today. BC Parks has confirmed the project under the resort’s existing Controlled Recreation Area (CRA) Master Plan, clearing the way for crews to begin work on the returning bike park, with an opening targeted for Summer 2027.
Mountain biking has been an approved activity at Cypress Mountain since 2004. Cypress built and operated a bike park through the 2005 season before closing it to prepare for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
Cypress is reusing portions of the original trail corridor within the CRA, while applying two decades of advances in trail design. The Bike Park build will unfold over three years, delivering a beginner-to-advanced progression on both flow and technical trails, featuring 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, Cypress Mountain. “The redesigned Cypress Bike Park will offer terrain for every kind of rider — 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 started. We’re thankful to our partners at BC Parks, First Nations, and the community groups who have helped shape how we’re bringing it back.”
Trail design, planning and building of the bike park is being led by Gravity Logic Inc., a Whistler-based mountain bike park design and build firm whose work spans lift-accessed bike parks across North America.
"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 of 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.”
Work is proceeding under an Environmental Management Plan that sets out how tree removal and other environmental impacts are being managed. The bike park sits entirely within the resort’s Controlled Recreation Area, it does not reduce, close or reroute access to any public trail, park area or backcountry route, either during the build process or once the park is operating.
Cypress has engaged with the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), along with community groups throughout this process, and will continue that dialogue as the work proceeds.
Gravity Logic and Cypress crews will begin trail building this month continuing through November 2026, weather permitting. As building progresses and the teams work directly with the mountain's terrain, the final trail count and features for opening will be confirmed.
Cypress’ return to mountain biking continues this fall when the resort hosts the Canadian debut of Red Bull Hardline – widely regarded as the world’s toughest downhill mountain bike race – October 16-17, 2026. The event brings the sport’s top riders, including Canadians Jackson Goldstone and Gracey Hemstreet, to Cypress terrain months ahead of the future bike park’s opening.
About Cypress Mountain Resort
Cypress Mountain Resort is Vancouver's largest mountain destination, located within Cypress Provincial Park just 30 minutes from downtown. With roots dating back to 1924, the resort offers 600+ acres of alpine terrain, six chairlifts, and the Lower Mainland's only Nordic trails (19 km) in winter, plus the Eagle Coaster, scenic chairlift rides, hiking, alpine dining in summer, and new summer activities coming. As the official venue for all freestyle skiing and snowboarding events at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Cypress continues its legacy of innovation and community while providing an escape for those who live in the city but are drawn to the untamed nature of the mountains.
within Cypress Provincial Park just 30 minutes from downtown. With roots dating back to 1924, the resort offers 600+ acres of alpine terrain, six chairlifts, and the Lower Mainland's only Nordic trails (19 km) in winter, plus the Eagle Coaster, scenic chairlift rides, hiking, alpine dining in summer, and new summer activities coming. As the official venue for all freestyle skiing and snowboarding events at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Cypress continues its legacy of innovation and community while providing an escape for those who live in the city but are drawn to the untamed nature of the mountains.
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