Weatherford Mountain Bike Club urges funding for Lake Weatherford Trail and outlines 'Epcot Trail' plan

Larry Colvin, president of the Weatherford Mountain Bike Club, used the Weatherford Utility Board’s public-comment period on May 29 to present a letter endorsing the Lake Weatherford Trail and to urge the city to move forward with funding.

Colvin described the club as a local nonprofit that has worked with the city since 2006 to build and maintain soft-surface hiking and mountain-bike trails at Quanah Hill and said the Lake Weatherford Trail is an important component of a larger East Parker County route. “We’re calling this trail the Epcot Trail,” he said, and outlined a proposed 26-mile bikeway that would allow cyclists to ride from trailhead to trailhead, connecting to more than 20 miles of single-track maintained by the club in Weatherford, Willow Park and Aledo.

Colvin said the trail would serve recreational riders and commuters alike, noting it “will be used as a means for people to ride to work, school, and or shop from Farner Market Road 730, all the way to Downtown Weatherford.” He closed by asking the city to move forward with funding for the Lake Weatherford Trail and offered the club’s support; the board thanked Colvin for his presentation but no board action was taken during the meeting.

The Weatherford Mountain Bike Club said it has maintained roughly 20 miles of trails on approximately 300 acres in the region and that the group is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Colvin left the letter with the board and answered no further questions during the allotted three-minute public-comment period.