Tamworth Mountain Bike Park: New walking trails and adaptive bike track make it a Christmas holiday destination

It might be off-road, but mountain biking is no longer off-limits to people with disabilities and new cultural walking tracks make it a less difficult and less explored option than Flagstaff Mountain.

The concept of a recently completed 900m track for adaptive cyclists was inspired by Tamworth Mountain Bikers (TMB) president Alyssa Rogan; who works as at the hospital's spinal unit when she's not bush-bashing covered in mud.

It's all part of a transformation to make the park more inclusive and attract families to come and enjoy new surroundings, TMB committee member Jeff Benson said.

"We're very fortunate with our president Alyssa Rogan who works at the spinal injury unit at Tamworth Hospital that she could see an opportunity for us to develop trails so that adaptive cyclists or people with disabilities can come out and enjoy the great outdoors," he said.

"We actually engaged a couple of guys who are recognised within NSW as the leaders in regard to adaptive cycle, and they gave us some feedback as to what they would be looking for.

"They didn't want it to be flat, they wanted rock gardens and ups and downs which we have been able to encompass into our construction."

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The council had plans to bring the cycleway up to the park and TMB wanted to link in with that.

As a result, they came up with a five-year plan that included walking trails to bring people in and look at more cultural trails.

Mr Benson said he hopes the community enjoys the new space.

"To enhance the walk we have installed some signage which talks about the native vegetation, what they were used for and we've engaged a geologist to explain interesting rock formations," he said.