The Juniper Basin Recreation Area will be the site of the first phase of a large development to use 93 acres of land on the north end of Farmington, New Mexico.
“The land has been in the works of being donated to us for a couple of years, and then we were trying to figure out, OK what do we do with it,” Warren Unsicker, the Farmington’s director of Economic Development, told KOB.
According to KOB, the Juniper Basin Recreation Area will offer mountain views, rolling foothills, and rugged terrain to patrons of a future bike park.
“We have been wanting to have a curated bike park that we could create the types of trails we felt the community needed, and that included tot tracks, pump tracks, things for people that are just getting started as well as more advance things,” Unsicker said.
Farmington received $2 million from New Mexico’s Outdoor Recreation Department and an estimated $100,000 of that will fund the first phase, KOB reported.
“Over the past five to six years we’ve seen such a huge growth in the outdoor recreation economy,’ Unsicker said. “This is something that we have the beautiful landscapes to take advantage of and use, and we just haven’t capitalized on.”
The final design phase of the Juniper Basin Recreation Area is 95% complete, according to KOB.