Cypress Mountain's Bike Park Returns in Summer 2027

Key takeaways

• Cypress Mountain will reopen its bike park in summer 2027, more than two decades after the last one shut down.
• Whistler-based Gravity Logic is designing and building it, with phase 1 running August to November 2026.
• Green, blue and black trails open first, and more get added in 2028 and 2029.
• Before any of that, Cypress hosts the Canadian debut of Red Bull Hardline on October 16-17, 2026.

Lift-served downhill riding is coming back to the North Shore. Cypress Mountain has confirmed it will reopen a bike park on Black Mountain in summer 2027, ending a gap that has lasted more than twenty years.

For riders in Metro Vancouver, that is a genuinely different proposition from the shuttle runs and pedal-up laps the North Shore is known for. A chairlift changes the maths of a riding day, and it changes what people ride.

What Cypress announced

Cypress is building a new lift-accessed bike park on Black Mountain, opening in summer 2027. The design and construction work goes to Gravity Logic Inc., a Whistler firm that specialises in bike parks. The build is staged across three phases, with the first phase running from August to November 2026.

The staging matters. Rather than cutting every trail at once, Cypress opens with a working network in 2027 and keeps adding through 2028 and 2029. That is the standard modern approach — build what the terrain gives you, ride it, then extend.

Cypress says BC Parks has confirmed the project under the resort's existing Controlled Recreation Area Master Plan, so the approvals sit inside a plan that already exists rather than requiring a new one.

Why the park went away in the first place

The original Cypress bike park dates to 2005 and did not survive the resort's build-out toward the 2010 Winter Olympics, where Cypress served as a Games venue. Coverage of the announcement disagrees on the exact final season — some outlets put the closure at 2005, others at 2010 — but every account ties it to the Olympic preparations.

What nobody disputes is the length of the gap. Cypress general manager Matt Davies framed the reopening as welcoming the mountain bike community back "after more than 20 years," and an entire generation of North Shore riders has grown up with the mountain as a winter destination and nothing else.

Cypress sits roughly a 30-minute drive from downtown Vancouver, which is the detail that makes the reopening interesting. Lift-served riding this close to a major city is rare in Canada.

What the trails will actually look like

The 2027 opening mix spans all three grades. Cypress has described beginner-friendly green runs, blue flow trails built around jumps and speed, and black technical lines with rock features and berms. Which of the mountain's six chairlifts end up serving the park has not been settled in public.

Tom Prochazka of Gravity Logic pointed to what the mountain already has — good vertical, varied terrain, and a mountain bike history that predates the closure. The company's stated approach is not to rebuild the 2005 park but to apply twenty years of trail-design progress to the same hillside.

The final trail count is not fixed. Crews work with the terrain as they cut, so the specifics land during construction rather than on a press release.

Red Bull Hardline lands first

Before a single lift-served lap happens, Cypress hosts the Canadian debut of Red Bull Hardline on October 16-17, 2026 — qualifying on the Friday, the final on the Saturday. It is an invitation-only race on a course deliberately built beyond World Cup limits.

Canadian Hardline competitors Jackson Goldstone and Gracey Hemstreet worked on the Cypress course design alongside the Athertons. Hardline is not the bike park, and its course is not a public trail, but it does put the mountain's steepness in front of a global audience a year before the park opens.

What it means for riders on this side of the water

A lift-served park pulls a different bike out of the garage. Pedalling efficiency stops mattering much when a chair does the climbing, and durability, suspension travel and braking take over. Riders who currently ride trail bikes on the Shore tend to end up wanting something burlier once laps get cheap.

That shift usually shows up in the used market before it shows up in shops. When a new park opens, some riders buy a dedicated downhill or long-travel bike and sell the trail bike they have been riding; others go the other way and offload a park bike they no longer use. Both sides of that trade run through the same place — used mountain bike gear tends to change hands when riding habits change.

There is a wider pattern here too. B.C.'s lift infrastructure keeps getting reworked — Blackcomb Glacier's new quad chair is the winter version of the same story — while B.C.'s new gear-repair funding pushes in the opposite direction, toward keeping the gear you already own running longer.

In the meantime, Cypress says the project does not close or reroute any public trail, provincial park area or backcountry route — and 2027 is still two summers of riding away.

FAQ

When does the Cypress bike park open?

Summer 2027. Phase 1 construction runs from August to November 2026, the park opens the following summer, and further trails are added across 2028 and 2029.

Who is building the trails?

Gravity Logic Inc., a Whistler-based bike-park design and build company. Co-founder Tom Prochazka has spoken about working with Cypress's existing vertical and terrain rather than recreating the old 2005 park.

Will there be beginner trails?

Yes. Cypress has described the opening network as spanning green, blue and black — beginner-friendly runs alongside flow trails and technical lines, rather than a downhill-only park.

Can you ride Cypress before 2027?

Cypress says the build does not close or reroute any public trail, provincial park area or backcountry route, so existing access is unchanged. The nearest scheduled event is Red Bull Hardline on October 16-17, 2026, which is a spectator race rather than something to ride.