Bandemer Park nearly complete, disc-golf ready, BMX bike course on its way

Get ready to clean off your BMX bikes, just so you can get them dirty again.

Ann Arbor is adding another aspect to its nearly 150 parks – in an extreme way. Bandemer Park is in its final phase of completion – planting trees and shrubs, and finishing up the park's dirt bike jump course.

X-gamers will be able to grab their bikes and hit up Bandemer for a day of dirt and jumps.  

Add that to the 9-hole disc golf course that Ann Arbor Park & Rec team put in over the winter and Bandemer Park ain't your grandpappy's park.

"The park was an industrial towing site," says Amy Kuras, an Ann Arbor Parks & Rec spokeswoman and landscape architect. "We've changed it, rearranged and cleaned it up to look like a park."

The Park lines up against the Huron River. It's North of downtown, on North Main Street, at Lake Shore Drive. The park also offers traditional amenities: paths, picnic areas, and, of course, a fire pit for those summer bonfires.

"We're in the final phase of development," Kuras says. "Definitely by summer the park will be complete."

And the bikes with be up and running – quite literally.

Source: Amy Kuras, Ann Arbor Park & Rec Spokeswoman
Writer: Terry Parris, Jr.