PORT ANGELES – A new pump track in Port Angeles opens Wednesday.

Organizers of the track will hold a grand opening ceremony at 5:30 pm at the track at Erickson playfields.  A pump track is a circuit of rollers, banked turns and features designed to be ridden completely by riders “pumping”—generating momentum by up and down body movements, instead of pedaling or pushing.

The Port Angeles Pump Track started over three years ago when a few community members wanted to add a pump track as a place where their kids, the community and visitors could freely ride all day long. One of those community members is Lincoln Park

Local BMX track operator, Sean Coleman.

“It’s amazing. I hope the community enjoys it as much as we’ve worked at building it and I think you’re going to see a lot of people just from out of town coming and checking it out as well. I know when the NW Cup is racing you’re going to see hundreds of mountain bikers on it when they’re not racing. And when we have our Gold Cup finals this September. We going to see a hundred plus BMXers out on it,” said Coleman.

Coleman, along with Cathrine Copass and Victoria Jones, approached Port Angeles Parks & Recreation Director Corey Delikat in 2019. They inquired about building a pump track in Port Angeles. Three years later, Port Angeles will have the largest pump track in the Northwest and the first in the country to have an adaptive track element.

The total cost of the track was approximately $880,000. $669,950 came from grants. The rest of the money came from a presenting sponsorship from First Fed and cash donations from local businesses totalling more than 100 thousand dollars.