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Ready to fight: Gorge Road Jump Park designer and builder Nathan Greenwood is rallying support to save the park from demolition
The future of Queenstown’s world-renowned Gorge Road Jump Park remains in the air after an eleventh-hour bid to save it from demolition.
The Queenstown Mountain Bike Club’s licence to use the area officially expired a week ago, and the council wants to clear the site for use as a storage area for town centre infrastructure projects.
But a club founder, Nathan Greenwood, who’s designed and built the park up to its current state since 2003, has enlisted a bevy of resort heavy-hitters, including billionaire Xero founder and resort resident Rod Drury, to lobby the council to change its mind.