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Buying a Pumptrack: 3 advantages

  • The Pumptrack circuit enables youngsters to develop good driving reflexes in everyday traffic.
  • Inauguration of the Espace Pumptrack at the Parc de la Commune in Varennes.
  • With both indoor and outdoor installation options, the community can enjoy the course all year round.
  • Designed for all ages and levels, more advanced users can easily have fun and improve their skills.

Pumptracks are a popular attraction for visitors

If there’s one thing all Pumptracks have in common, it’s their popularity! This is the comment most often heard from our customers; they enhance the hospitality of any tourist area, park or event.

  • Pumptrack makes your site the one that everyone wants to visit;
  • It will increase visits to your park and bookings at your resort or campsite.

It encourages users to adopt an active lifestyle

The impact of Pumptrack on the health of a community is impressive.

Here’s how a Pumptrack circuit serves the mission of Family, Education and Teaching departments, municipal recreation departments and other officials responsible for encouraging exercise and fitness to improve citizens’ health:

  • It helps maintain physical fitness and good lifestyle habits;
  • It’s designed for all ages and levels, encouraging everyone to give it a try.

A perfect example of how Pumptracks inspire crowds of people to get off the couch; the municipality of Bergen, Norway. After installing a PARKITECT modular Pumptrack, the city experienced an increase in traffic and congestion due to users crossing the city to get to the installation. The solution? Instead of removing the circuit, they bought six more for a total of seven!

Pumptrack builds committed communities

The root of an engaged community begins with citizen groups coming together to rally the population to propose new projects, and often it’s these same groups that will put forward the idea of investing in a distinctive facility like a Pumptrack. Here are a few reasons why Pumptracks are unique in their ability to bring communities together:

  • It’s a fully inclusive installation;
  • It brings the community together around a common interest: exercise;
  • It will furnish a vacant space, transforming it into a safe place for youngsters to learn the right behaviors and reflexes for driving in everyday traffic.

The positive rewards that result from acquiring a Pumptrack may not be measurable in traditional calculations, but they are no less significant!

Click here to find out more about our modular Pumptrack range.

This article was inspired by Parkitect’s article“Benefits of Buying (or Building) a Pumptrack“.

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