Bare Creek Bike Park is a purpose-built, council-operated gravity / freeride park in Belrose on Sydney's Northern Beaches. It sits on the remediated footprint of the former Belrose Waste Management Centre (a landfill that closed in November 2014), giving it the unusual quality of a hand-shaped hill in an otherwise flat sandstone-plateau landscape. The park opened to the public in December 2020 after a multi-year design and build by Dirt Art under lead designer Tom Mallett, in collaboration with local advocacy group TrailCare.
The 1.6 km network is short by national-park standards but dense: every metre is shaped, jumped, or bermed. The brief from day one was progression — beginner-rollable flow lines through to a pro-only freeride line with mandatory gaps and large drops. Trails are sculpted from red clay sandstone fill, so the surface rides fast and tacky but is extremely vulnerable to rain and wind — individual trails are routinely closed by the volunteer trail crew at short notice. An asphalt pump track and a dedicated dirt-jump pad (with four progression lines) sit alongside the gravity trails, giving the park a session-style character rather than the cross-country loop of typical Sydney MTB venues.
The park is free, dawn-to-dusk in spirit but formally gated 7am–7pm, and serves both as the de-facto gravity training ground for the Sydney basin and as a destination day-trip for visiting riders. It's managed by Northern Beaches Council and was funded ($3.5M) via the NSW Waste Assets Management Corporation's Enhancement Fund —
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