A brand new mountain biking track designed to encourage more young people and women into the sport has been opened at Queen Elizabeth Country Park.

Work building the ‘lite blue’ cycle course started last year and it was officially opened at 10am on Saturday (January 21).

The 300m course was designed and built be the country park’s Trail Collective crew, who maintain the mountain bike tracks in the park.

There are ‘red tracks’ for advanced bikers, ‘blue tracks’ for intermediate cyclists, and now the new ‘lite blue’ track for beginners and novices.

A Trail Collective spokesman said: “The new lite blue trail has officially opened.

“Thank you to all the volunteers who have given up their time and effort to work on the trails. A special thank you goes to Craig Mcnee and Scott Fitzgerald, without them this wouldn’t have been possible.”

The volunteers have also created a skills area for novice mountain bikers.

The trail is hoped to get more families outside as well as encouraging them to take up mountain biking.