The Full Send bike park (not “ranch” – ask any local rancher) expects 700 or more motor vehicles a day at its proposed 250-acre site, located 2.2 miles west of Jefferson County Highway 73 on Shadow Mountain Drive.

To date, over 3,100 Conifer Area residents disapprove and have signed a petition to the County Planning Commission opposing the park.

This letter discusses one of perhaps a score of reasons not to build the park. There are, possibly, two in its favor: neither of which benefit area residents.

If the park is opened, the frequency of traffic accidents, injuries, and fatalities must increase in the months of April through October — the bike park’s “season” — from those 700 motor vehicles traversing each way on this shoulder-less, two-lane stretch of road. There are around ten blind curves and numerous hidden entrances to driveways as the road winds along the steep, lower slope of Shadow Mountain.

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