{"id":90,"date":"2008-09-04T18:16:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T02:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2010-07-16T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T23:30:10","slug":"indian-river-park-chesapeake-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"Indian River Park – Chesapeake VA"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was not expecting much of Indian River Park AKA “Ipswich”.\u00a0 That name comes form the\u00a0home development\u00a0that boards about half of the park.\u00a0 It is a rather small plot of land and the topography is pretty much flat.\u00a0\u00a0Okay I must say that I was surprised with what was out here.\u00a0\u00a0The trail builders have made some exceptional good use of what they have.\u00a0\u00a0 Just about every small contour is used and\u00a0the place has been spiced up with some\u00a0bridges and stunts to\u00a0keep thing interesting.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Once again I am digging the\u00a0greenery of the east coast trees.\u00a0\u00a0 All together there is a\u00a0somewhere in the neighborhood of 4-5 miles of singletrack here.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Ipswich\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

This trail system is just a 2 mile street ride from my hotel so I have been here two days this week after work and riding right from the hotel.\u00a0 The first time out here was getting to know the place by\u00a0sticking to the\u00a0 main trails.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It did not take long to feel like I could be hamster-wheeling out here.\u00a0 This was a wrong assessment, because there is a maze of secondary trails that can be combined for quite a bit of fun.\u00a0\u00a0 I found myself trying to see just how fast I could get around this place.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The more forks you take the more you find and before long I found pretty technical to downright insane type stuff.<\/p>\n

\"log
\nA nice\u00a0over\u00a0a log feature\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Stunt\"\u00a0<\/p>\n

This monster is crazy.\u00a0 The raised platform is about seven or so feet off the ground.\u00a0\u00a0 The teeter-tooter is also pretty short so you will have to wait for the drop.\u00a0\u00a0Props to the folks who built this thing as it is rock-solid.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Ditch<\/p>\n

I’ll be hitting this place up at least a couple time a week after work when I don’t have time to explore some of the other trails further away.\u00a0 Including the mileage to and from the hotel I can get in about 11-14 miles out here but doing a couple of loops through various maze options.\u00a6lt;\/p><\/p>\n

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