(From the City of Joplin)Outdoor adventures await in Joplin with the opening of the new MOmentum Bike Park, featuring fun and challenging elements for all ages.
A good crowd gathered during today’s Ribbon Cutting and riders were excited to get on the trails. Joplin Mayor Keenan Cortez noted that it had been just nine months since the groundbreaking for this park.
“This bike park has been a vision for many riders, and a goal for the City for a number of years. We’re here to celebrate and open this amazing new attraction for Joplin – in Joplin. There’s no reason you have to leave to have a great experience – now you can do that here!”
Noted as the largest municipal facility of its kind in Missouri, MOmentum offers ten miles of purpose-built mountain bike trails, BMX pump track, and a children’s bicycle playground. It also features bridges and skills features for riders to learn new skills before heading out on the more challenging sections.
“We are pumped to open this incredible and unique park to Joplin and our surrounding communities,” said Paul Bloomberg, Director of Parks and Recreation. “People who may not have visited a bike park before will be amazed at the different features and trails that we’ve created. There’s something for the little ones all the way up to the skilled bikers.
“There’s more exciting news too! The Grand Launch Party for MOmentum will be held on Saturday, May 2, 2026. Come out for live demonstrations, watch professional riders, enter for giveaways, and enjoy the entertainment as we host our first event of many more to come.”
Bloomberg also told the crowd that Joplin is planning to host an annual bike festival in the park each fall. Watch for more details.
MOmentum features more than 132,000 square feet of formal bike park within the 95-acre site. Riders of all ages and skill levels will enjoy the variety of options. It offers both a regional attraction and a community asset which promotes active lifestyles and family-friendly recreation.
During the ribbon-cutting, Mayor Cortez recognized the partners who worked together to bring this project to Joplin, including Crossland Construction, the general contractor, SWT Designs for design and engineering work, International Mountain Biking Association for work on the trails, and American Ramp Company, the Joplin-based international company, which provided their skills and biking knowledge to build park elements that will energize and inspire riders of all ages.
The bike park is a great attraction for our community and will also draw many biking enthusiasts to Joplin to enjoy and attend future events. The Missouri Department of Economic Development (DED) ARPA Local Tourism Grant provided over $ 1.5 million to expand and improve this project.
Brian Schwarz, the DED’s Regional Engagement Representative for our area, attended the event, along with Stephen Foutes, Director of the Missouri Division of Tourism. Cortez thanked them for their support and attendance to celebrate this historic opening in Joplin.
Other funding for MOmentum came from the Parks and Stormwater Tax and the Hotel/Motel Tax, .
For more information about MOmentum Bike Park, visit joplinmo.org/MOmentum
Park rules and the map can be found on this page.
For more, follow the MOmentum Bike Park Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/MOmentumBikePark
12 comments:
This sounds like a fun time for the kids. Hopefully the kid's parents have to sign permission slips and waivers, and those are in effect, relinquishing their rights to file lawsuits or initiate other legal actions if the kids get hurt. There is always a low life, sue happy - Attorney under every rock. This is the cherry tomato on the supermarket floor, McDonalds hot coffee, all rolled up in one playground accident and know you have thrown in the kids - which is definitely a sympathy settlement - beginning day one. This why our Insurance Rates are so high in America - because we have over 1.3-Million Attorneys in America - all waiting their chance to sue someone - What ever happened to being responsible for yourself -
Why is everyone so sue happy in America? Everybody seems to want easy money and this just makes the prices of insurance go up. Any little thing and people want to sue - they take no responsibility for their own actions - got to be somebodies else's fault and pocketbook.
1011 obviously doesn't get out much and watches too much TV, particularly paying attention to all the deplorable attorney law office commercials and trump. 1011 needs to wisen up, look into the other areas like Bentonville. There, 1011 might just find the information needed to form a respectable and most importantly, wise opinion.
OMG - 11:50AM, If you just read this Blog, you see multiple frivolous lawsuits listed all the time - Women slips on cherry tomato, Woman falls in parking lot, Overweight Woman sues Doctors after Bariatric Surgery but not before going straight to Mexico one-week after the Surgery to Party, then has multiple complications and infections. Some of these local frivolous lawsuits have the plaintiffs in the process of being evicted or other financial or legal issues trying to cash in - on probably their own fault.
Maybe you need to get a reality check and start reading and watching tv - and understanding how the world really works - stop living in little pink house chasing butterfly's and unicorns. Insurance Prices for Businesses reflect the potential costs of lawsuits in every item. My Goodness are you that naive.
Who are you to judge?
Dear PPPP, 354. It's so hard to hold back on all the things I really want to say about your verbal vomit of infinite ignorance on the bike park (among a hateful and ignorant laundry list of other ridiculous opinions that you consistently spew). Your wacked out opinion is just that: a distortion of reality served on a nothingburger. Bikers ride in parks like this because they accept the risk much like ski areas, hiking in parks, mountain climbing, boating on a lake, and etc, etc. You're out of your league on this swing and miss PPPP.
Biker Beatrice - Can you even set your Azz on a bicycle seat or is it a bike built for two or three?
How did this go from a bike park for kids to weird politics? Y'all are gross.
Also, reading and watching TV are hardly a reality check. I suggest going outside and checking out reality, perhaps at the bike park?
The PPPP (653) strikes again!......well, kinda🤔🤔🤔
5:28, Wow Karen, frivolous lawsuits happen all the time, not ridiculous opinions but Facts. Just Google, Personal Injury Attorneys Locally - This Blog has listed several in the past. They are all pushing Slip and Fall - Need Money, behind on Rent/Bills, Snap and EBT Benefits Limited, just find a Store or Business and have a Slip and Fall and get your Payday, No Fees till we Settle:
Feb 6, 2019 — Our client received $875000 in a Slip and Fall Settlement. A full-value slip and fall settlement is a routine result for our clients.
Nov 15, 2023 — Retail Store Liability in Missouri: Understanding Premises Liability for Your Slip and Fall Claim.
Sep 12, 2025 — As confirmed in reporting by Missouri Lawyers Media, a dentist has received a $1.75 million settlement after a serious slip and fall accident.
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Wow PPPP, again, you've come up with frivolous verbal diarrhea once again. First of all, your cut and paste argument has little to no relationship with a bike park, ski resorts, etc, etc. I assume in your cut and paste mastery, you also included a plug for b&h without even reading whatever it is you think is gospel. Bike parks can carry liability for the upkeep of jumps,ramps, and other technical elements, like a ski resort does for lifts and technical runs/ elements. A bike rider accepts the risk that all other issues are on their dime, so does a skier. This isn't some silly example of your cut and paste McDonald's hot coffee, or the woman who slipped on a tomato at the grocery store liability. Your ignorance is pervasive and obviously permanent. Too bad.
1:28 Thank you for a very concise and detailed response. Very informative to all who take the time to read your response.
The PPPP apparently does the copy past without any citation as to the source. There also don't appear to be any quotation marks used.
In academia that's called plagiarism. (On the internet it's frequently called something like 'Spewing the copypasta!')
As found at the John Hopkins Sheridan Libraries website on a web page titled: "Avoiding Plagiarism"
" Quoting
Quoting is when you use someone else’s exact words in your paper. It requires that quotation marks go around that author’s words, and the quotation is followed by an in-text citation." https://guides.library.jhu.edu/avoidingplagiarism/
The PPPP should also read the material here: https://guides.library.jhu.edu/avoidingplagiarism/what_is_plagiarism
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