MOmentum Milestone: Bike Park hits 100,000 visits since opening

Joplin's biggest outdoor attraction has reached a major milestone less than one year after its opening. 

Over the weekend of Nov. 7-8, the award-winning MOmentum Bike Park officially surpassed 100,000 visits. Visitor data is tracked and provided by the Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce through its subscription to Placer.ai, a location intelligence tool which can determine the number of unique visits to a specific area. 

"When MOmentum was conceptualized and through all its planning stages, we knew that it would quickly become a popular destination," said Paul Bloomberg, director of Parks and Recreation for the City of Joplin. "We have a strong outdoor recreational community in the Joplin area and a growing community of cyclists. To see us hit the 100,000 visit number in less than a year is confirmation that this was an amenity Joplin needed."  

MOmentum held its soft opening with a ribbon cutting on Nov. 24, 2025. Its official grand launch party was held May 2, 2026, and it served as the host of a Velosolutions UCI Pump Track World Championships Qualifier event this summer. 

In addition to an incredible number of visits, the park has also received numerous accolades in its first year. In May, MOmentum was named a winner of the Missouri Municipal League's 2026 Innovation Awards – an award given to a few select communities across the state for projects which enhance quality of life in creative ways. 

MOmentum also received honors in March when SWT design, which developed the park's design and engineering, received the Award of Excellence for a Built Project from the local Kansas City Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. 

MOmentum features more than 132,000 square feet of bike park across its 95-acre site, and has ten miles of purpose-built mountain bike trails, a BMX pump track, a children's bicycle playground, and bridges and skills courses for riders to learn new skills before
heading out on the more challenging sections. 

Access to MOmentum from cyclists across the City will also soon become easier. Joplin recently announced that it has been awarded a $500,000 Land and Water Conservation Fund Grant to help build a 2/3-mile trail that will take pedestrians and bicyclists from Landreth Park to the bike park.

Eventually, the City plans to develop a continuous trail network including connections from MOmentum to Landreth and Ewert parks, and eventual connections to Campbell Parkway, Parr Hill Park, and crossing Range Line Road using sidewalks to connect with Prospect Village. The City is also looking at additional enhancements to the park, including concessions and parking improvements. 

For more information, visit https://www.momentumbikepark.com/.