In 2022, WMBC opened a new parking lot on Galbraith Mountain, expanding the previous 20-car lot to a whopping 180-car capacity. In 2025, WMBC set out to build a few fun, easy trails accessible right from the parking lot to "provide trail opportunities for all user groups."
"Bellingham has had a lot of influx of people moving into town, and a lot of young families, and a lot of technology now is really allowing kids to get out on mountain bikes at a younger age," said Pulse. "So the Breaux Zone is this prime spot where there's a green flow line and a blue flow line, where kids can start out on Striders, getting their first time on the trail on the green line, and then the blue line just kind of takes that up a little bit and lets people start to get a feel for what tabletops and berms and things start to feel like. So that's a really big one as well that the community has been super, super stoked on."
The funding for the Breaux Zone came from Nathaniel Breaux's family. Breaux was a local restaurant owner who tragically passed away in the fire that destroyed the Fairhaven Terminal Building in 2023. "His family started a GoFundMe and raised over $40,000 in his memory. Essentially, he was a mountain biker, [and] they thought the best way to honor him would be to give back to the mountain," said Pulse.
Shire Built was the primary builder on this project.
