The universe works in such mysterious ways. When Kenan and i first started dating (over 25 years ago) he was really into BMX bikes. When we moved down here, he eventually gave it up because there just isn't a lot of places out here to do it without driving an hour.
Last year when he turned 44, he bought a BMX bike, kind of on a whim in Richmond, VA when he was taking Sequoia back to Williamsburg. Now that he is working in town, he's been riding it after work in the parking lot and around town and realized he really missed it and still really enjoying it.
So how crazy is it that we found out a BMX & skateboarding facility and camp is being built right in Dugspur, VA of all places?!? Dugspur is a beautiful area in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but it's literally in BFE. There is pretty much nothing in Dugspur, except the minimart with is about 3 miles from us. We are closer to Dugspur than we are Floyd. So although it's in the middle nowhere, so are we and it's actually not too far down the road from us!
We were there for their media event and got to see some professional skate boarders and BMX riders our doing tricks and riding. It was really pretty cool. The people building this facility helped to build/design/run (i can't remember the details) the Woodward skate park in Pennsylvania.
When we were there, they were really just getting started. There were a lot of areas under construction and they were still working out details of their summer camp program. The first camp ended up canceled because of Covid, but that gave them time to add even more cool features to the facility!
They were still working on the dirt jumps and trails when we were there. Although Kenan has been back a few times to ride, i haven't so i'm not sure what all they have going on now. They are having an open house type of eent in April and Kenan is planning to go and ride and i'll probably go to walk the trails and mushroom hunt. :D
The place used to be an old theater camp, so it's already got cabins and a club house etc. They were in the process of building more skateboard areas, including a 10,000 sq. ft indoor skate park, adding hiking trails, disk gulf, a pool and more!
It's really a neat facility and almost unbelievable that it would be built so close to us right as Kenan decides he wants to get back into it. Definitely some crazy manifesting going on there!
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