Saint John Cycling

Rockwood Park Trail Maintenance Update 🌲🚲
Saint John Cycling would like to give a BIG shout-out and thank you to all of our amazing volunteers who have put in countless hours maintaining and improving Rockwood Park trails this year!

2026 Volunteer Hours to Date: 238 hours
🚵 Bike Trails: 102 hours
🥾 Multi-Use Trails: 136 hours

Trails that have received some love this year:
High Tide & Low Tide – debris cleanup, berm and jump resurfacing
Simon Says – brush cutting and debris cleanup
Beginner MTB Skills Park – cleanup and feature resurfacing
Old School – debris cleanup and feature resurfacing
Rip Tide – debris cleanup and feature resurfacing
Mackay Skyway Jumpline – jump and trail feature resurfacing
Crystal Lake Bridge – bridge repairs
Rockwood Challenge Race Course – brush cutting and debris cleanup
Mamma I’m Coming Home – cleanup, feature resurfacing and exit reroute
Tour De Pants – bridge rebuild
Carnage – brush cutting
Donnie Detour, Golf Trek, Moose Traxs & New Found Trail – bridge/board repairs

Paid Trail Maintenance
A big thank you to Dig In Trailbuilding for their work on High Tide, including machine work and additional trail crew support to rebuild and improve the berm features.
What’s Still to Come in 2026 🚧

We’re hoping to complete:
Mamma I’m Coming Home – 30 m volunteer-built reroute
Moose Traxs – 1 km reroute with a mix of volunteer and paid trail building
2–3 additional bridge rebuilds – volunteer projects
Phase 2 of the Beginner Skills Area rebuild
None of this happens without our incredible volunteers. 238 hours and counting!

Thank you to everyone who has grabbed a shovel, saw, brush cutter or just helped out wherever needed. Your time and effort make Rockwood Park better for everyone. ❤️
Saint John Cycling

Never to late to get a 2026 Membership or Donate all proceeds go to efforts like this. https://www.saintjohncycling.com/shop

Great turnout for another SJC awesome Taps & Trails group ride! Thanks to and the local Sussex crew for the epic tour of the Bluffs, then a most excellent post ride refreshment and food the Sussex Ale House!

Series #3 for the Taps & Trails will take our social ride to the Sussex Bluffs. The views are worth the drive!

This will be an Outdoor Elements x Saint John Cycling x Sussex Aleworks collaboration.

On August 13th, meet at Outdoor Elements for 6:15 ready to roll for 6:30. We will apres after at SAW for 8ish. Join the Saint John Cycling movement!

Please scroll to the bottom of this page if you haven’t signed our waiver - https://www.saintjohncycling.com/mtb-skills-programs

Community MTB Skills will be popping up in Rockwood Park. August 11th from 6-7:30. Meet at the Upper Fisher Lake parking lot.

Do want skills to build confidence through rock gardens or find your flow in technical terrain at Rockwood?

Free programming to all Saint John Cycling members aged 10+. Strategies for tactically technical terrain will be the focus for this event.

Please register for the event to let our instructors know you’ll be there -https://www.saintjohncycling.com/mtb-skills-programs

Last Wednesday group ride at Shady Grove was a most excellent time. Thank you Long Bay Brewery for having us for some post ride refreshments.

Good job to the Saint John Cycling Trail Crew for putting in some hours last Saturday, rebuilding a bridge on Rockwood Parks muti user trails! This bridge on Tour De Pants is just one of the many briges in Rockwood Park SJC has taken on responsibility to maintain and or rebuild! Remember to grab a membership, or donate here

https://www.saintjohncycling.com/shop

Keep an eye on Facebook for trail maintenance events organized by the club and put in some sweat equity with us!

SJC would like to take a moment to give a shout out to two of our community coaches for levelling up their mtb skills training and coaching certification! Renée successfully completed her PMBIA L1 and kids module and Emily, continues her journey by completing her PMBIA kids module. Great work, ladies! Both Renèe and Emily are stoked to help our SJC member youth and adults improve your mtb skills! 🚵🏼‍♀️👊🏼 Thank you to
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