Meet some of the team behind Walden's Ridge Park: a public, multi-use park just minutes from downtown Chattanooga.
Thanks to the efforts of the North Chickamauga Creek Conservancy, Land Trust for Tennessee, SORBA Chattanooga, Southeastern Climbers Coalition, Hamilton County Parks, and the City of Chattanooga, Walden's Ridge Park is set to come online in early 2023. Situated on a steep slope of Signal Mountain, Walden's Ridge contains 10 miles of multi-use trails with an emphasis on intermediate/advanced gravity, bike-only trails. Alongside the SCC, the team also identified over 30 bouldering opportunities throughout the park and wove hiking trails into the design specifically for climbers to enjoy.
Walden's Ridge was planned and designed by IMBA Trail Solutions and was the organization's first Trail Accelerator Grant recipient. Also funded by our Dig In Grant, this project, through crowd-sourced funding, has raised more than any other Dig In project so far in the program's history. The community of Chattanooga has been primed for a place like this.
Built by a combination of IMBA Trail Solutions, McGill Trail Fabrication and Barry Smith Trails, the gravity-fed mountain bike-optimized trails promise to progress a rider from intermediate to advanced with a variety of challenges.
Walden's Ridge Park is currently closed to the public - keep your eye on www.waldensridgepark.com for opening day information.
