Gisburn Opening – By ‘eck Chief it Were a Tad Damp
Well we did it, Gisburn's new trails, skills loops and car park are officially open despite the weather giving it a determined second go at cancelling things again....
Gisburn Forest News
It’s On, It’s Off, It’s On – Gisburn New Trails Opening
The blizzard conditions put pay to the planned opening of the new trails on the 23rd of March, even if we could have got to the forest which was dubious we...
New Gisburn Trails & Car Park – Grand Opening
It's been a long time coming but we've finally beaten the weather and the opening of the new trail, car park and skills loops is going to happen on Saturday the...
Gisburn on NorthWest Tonight
Gisburn Forest was featured on BBC NorthWest Tonight and not necessarily for the right reasons. The phenomenal success of the new trails (50,000 visitors a year...
Free Car Parking for Volunteers at Gisburn & Beyond
Free Car Parking for Volunteers at Gisburn & Beyond
Work is now underway on the new car park at Gisburn with the area having been marked out and cleared of trees....
Temporary Gisburn Trail Closures
The 8 bike trail (red route) between location posts 18 and 19 will be closed from Monday 20th February for circa 3 weeks. This section starts alongside Black Hill...
Gisburn Forest Update
Things have been progressing at Gisburn over the last month of two. Here's a round up of what's been happening:
XC Trail
The XC volunteers have finished another...
Gisburn Forest Wins MBR Readers Trail of the Year.
Thanks to all of you who voted in the recent MBR poll to find their readers favourite trail of 2011. We won! Polling around 20% of the total vote Gisburn came first...
Gisburn Update
Things are continuing to develop at Gisburn, albeit slowly for some of the projects. The new car park is still being pushed at the moment along with the associated...
Tim Royle Video ‘Gisburn Forest – The new Hope Trail’
Tim Royle's been at it again with his camera and created another cracking video of the trail developments up at Gisburn. This time focussing on the new Hope Free...
Hope Freeride Trail and Other Gisburn News
Hope Freeride Trail
Loads of work has been completed at Gisburn over the last few months with more planned into the future. The Hope Freeride trail is now rideable,...
Gisburn Mid Week Digs
Yesterday saw the first evening 'dig day' at Gisburn Forest and despite the after hours timing we had a pretty good turn out. Arranged on the hoof via Facebook (I...
Gisburn Gets Planning Permission For Extra Facilities
Gisburn's planning application for a significant upgrade of the existing car parking facilities has been given the OK by Ribble Valley Council. The application submitted...
Gisburn Facilities Expansion – Your Views Needed
As some of you may be aware Gisburn's got great plans for a new car park and skills area along with better facilities. It’s currently going through the planning...
Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue At Gisburn
For once the local mountain rescue team weren't at Gisburn to pull someone out of Hully Gully. Instead two of their members and Jon Swift of the Gisburn Volunteer...
Gisburn Forest News
Couple of things to report, trail repairs, extra dig day and a video of Ed Oxley skipping.
We're having an extra dig day on the 29th of May to carry on with work...
