Online survey available until May 26, 2025
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) is planning a new bike skills park near 34th Avenue S and Minnehaha Creek!
After taking feedback via an initial online survey, build-your-own bike park worksheets, an in-person open house and online open house, project designers developed two design concepts. Check them out and let us know what you think by using the online survey link below:
Minnehaha Bike Skills Park Survey
Project Schedule
Feedback from the online survey will be collected through May 26. Over summer, a proposed final design will be created, a public hearing will be held, and MPRB Commissioners will consider it for approval.
After a design is approved, construction work will be published for bids and work could begin as soon as this fall. After the new bike skills park opens, the temporary bike skills park across the parkway from Lake Nokomis Community Center will be removed to prepare for renovating the tennis courts there.
Project Background
Three banks of tennis courts in very poor condition near Minnehaha Creek between Lake Hiawatha Park and Minnehaha Regional Park were removed in 2024 as part of a project to transform these spaces into a pollinator lawn, clay tennis courts, and bike skills park.
Changes to the courts along Minnehaha Parkway Regional Trail near the intersections of 30th, 32nd, and 34th Avenues South are outlined in Segment 4 of the long-term plan for Minnehaha Parkway Regional Trail completed in 2020. All three sets of courts were removed last spring.
A permanent pollinator lawn was planted at 30th Avenue S and temporary lawns were planted 32nd and 34th Avenues S.
At 32nd Avenue, Minneapolis Community Clay Courts is fundraising to build clay tennis courts. The MPRB partnered with Minneapolis Community Clay Courts to open the park system’s first clay courts at Waveland Triangle in 2021. Visit letsplayclay.org to learn more and get involved in the future clay courts project.
At 34th Avenue, the upcoming bike skills park received $40,000 in funding from the Metropolitan Council Equity Grant Program, in addition to $264,000 in Park Dedication Fees allocated to the project.