BMX park coming soon to Oxford

FNC Park will soon have a new bicycle moto-cross, or BMX, park.

The exact start date of the BMX addition is uncertain. Brad Freeman, planning and marketing director at FNC, said he hopes to get a bid process started so the work on the park can begin sometime this spring.

“It is really too early to say since we haven’t let bids out, but hopefully we can get the bids out and approved by April or May with work started shortly thereafter,” Freeman said.

“There is a process that we have to follow.”

Freeman said once all the plans are in place, the BMX track will be built behind the softball fields.

The Pathways Project Grant, which has funded several projects in Oxford before, constructed by the Board of Aldermen, Mississippi Department of Transportation, Roger Wicker and citizens in Oxford, provided the funding of the park.

The design team who builds the BMX course is still unknown and will not be known until all the bids are out and awarded.

Freeman did say the BMX course will consist of several dirt jumps and turns down a gradually winding slope.

“If possible, we hope to have a starting gate at the start of the track as well,” Freeman said. “The track will be for bikes. No motorized vehicles.”