While the amount of funding the club would need from the council was not yet known, Mr Seaton said yesterday the whole job could be done for within $50,000.
Opus consultants had already provided $15,000 of design work free, and Mountainbike Otago would do its own fundraising towards the facility.
More than 7km of mountain bike tracks had been developed, and events were being successfully held, but access at the moment was informally through Logan Park High School, an arrangement "not ideal".
The club aimed to attract the 2011 world championships, and such events contributed significantly to Dunedin, with the Oceania Championships attracting about 330 people who stayed in Dunedin for a week.
Mountainbike Otago's plans for an access road and car park behind Logan Park High School, which president Hamish Seaton says will help the organisation's goal of making its Signal Hill course the best in New Zealand.
