In today’s Houston Chronicle Cycling Notebook, Dale Robertson reports that GHORBA has received two grants to expand the trails at Joe Barton Jr. Park in Conroe and Roy Burroughs Park in northwest Harris County. Joe Barton trails grow by three miles while new trails will be constructed in Roy Burroughs Park.

“The Greater Houston Off-Road Bicycling Association (GHORBA) has received a Texas Parks and Wildlife grant for more than $45,000 to build an additional three miles of multipurpose trails plus new bridges in the heavily wooded Carl Barton Jr. Park just east of Conroe. GHORBA President Mike Cumonski says it will pay a professional trail-building company to do the work but will handle all future maintenance using volunteer work crews.”

“GHORBA also received a $5,000 grant from REI sporting goods to develop new trails in Roy Burroughs Park in far northwest Harris County, near The Woodlands.”