Say Hello to the New Belmont Park

Belmont Park received quite the renovation this year! From a bicycle pump track and a public art sculpture to cedar benches and a strider bike track, you're in for a fun afternoon exploring this park with family and friends!

The transformation at Belmont Park, located at 2202 Sovereign Street, was made possible through Durham's Participatory Budget (PB) Improvement Projects. The program has been a priority by Durham City Council since 2018 to empower and amplify community voices to help them decide in greater detail how funds will be spent. Durham Parks and Recreation team members hosted a community conversation to co-develop ideas on the design, with the results focusing on environmentally-friendly enhancements to  create active and passive space uses.

The leading wish of the neighborhood and premier feature of the park is the bicycle pump track. This feature includes a looped circuit of hills, berms, and banked turns designed to be ridden completely by riders using an "arm-pumping" motion to generate momentum instead of pedaling. There is also a strider bike track specifically designed to help young children learn how to balance and coordinate before peddling. Bikes without pedals are ideal for the strider bike track. 

Some of the park's additional environmentally friendly features include improved pedestrian access to allow for better street access and visibility from cars, a natural surface walking path, cedar benches, native landscaping under large oak shade trees, and a refurbished cedar top picnic table.

And don't forget to explore the Belmont Park Dragon, a public art sculpture with interactive elements woven into the design to engage visitors both visually and physically. The Dragon sculpture was a collaborative piece designed and installed by Red Rabbit Wood Carving and Nature Trails NC, LLC, a North Carolina-based design and installation team with extensive experience building family-friendly pump tracks in natural settings.
 

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