park opens new skills development course

special when you look out at the park now.”

Pat Leiting noted that many others were vital in the joint effort of creating Gypsum City, including former state Sen. Daryl Beall and former state Rep. Helen Miller, who worked to get laws changed to allow the creation of the OHV park on the former gypsum quarries.

“It was the collaboration of everything that made it work and evolve into the crown jewel that is here now,” Pat Leiting said.

The skills development course features 15 obstacles — the culvert crawl, balance beam, step up, rock garden, log jump, log pyramid, teeter-totter bridge, off-set logs, off-camber logs, hill climb, log ride, whoops, tire garden, tire climb and wagon wheel.

According to Tasha Nielsen, trail technician at Gypsum City, the course is open to all the vehicles that are allowed in the park. Each obstacle also has options for varying levels of difficulty.

Many of the obstacles are made with recycled or donated material, including recycled culverts and tractor tires. The teeter-totter bridge is actually the bridge that formerly passed over part of Badger Lake on one of the trails at John F. Kennedy Memorial Park.