I was not expecting much of Indian River Park AKA “Ipswich”. That name comes form the home development that boards about half of the park. It is a rather small plot of land and the topography is pretty much flat. Okay I must say that I was surprised with what was out here. The trail builders have made some exceptional good use of what they have. Just about every small contour is used and the place has been spiced up with some bridges and stunts to keep thing interesting. Once again I am digging the greenery of the east coast trees. All together there is a somewhere in the neighborhood of 4-5 miles of singletrack here.
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. The first time out here was getting to know the place by sticking to the main trails. It did not take long to feel like I could be hamster-wheeling out here. This was a wrong assessment, because there is a maze of secondary trails that can be combined for quite a bit of fun. I found myself trying to see just how fast I could get around this place. The more forks you take the more you find and before long I found pretty technical to downright insane type stuff.
A nice over a log feature
This monster is crazy. The raised platform is about seven or so feet off the ground. The teeter-tooter is also pretty short so you will have to wait for the drop. Props to the folks who built this thing as it is rock-solid.
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. 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.¦lt;/p>
wow that looks awesome, did you do the teeter?