I-5 Colonnade is the first ever urban mountain bike skills park. It’s part of a City of Seattle park, but was funded and constructed by the Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance. This new unique park under I-5 opened December 2005 with 7.5 acres of open space on property owned by Washington State Department of Transportation. The park features a novice area–the Tqalu Trail, an intermediate and advanced area–Limestone Loop, a dirt jumping section, pump track, trials area, and more.
Creation of this open space was in the making since the Eastlake community identified it in their 1998 Neighborhood Plan. Find out more about the I-5 Colonnade formerly I-5 Open Space Pro Parks Project Information.
John Roloff is a visual artist who works conceptually with site, process and natural systems. He is known primarily for his outdoor kiln/furnace projects done from the late 1970’s to the early 1990’s as well as other large-scale environmental and gallery installations investigating geologic and natural phenomena.
