From bike trails to hiking trails, Stash parks to new snowmaking machines, it’s one busy summer at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.

All over the mountain, dirt is being moved and improvements are being made.

The resort is undergoing $3 million worth of improvements to its summer and winter recreation activities. At a news conference Tuesday morning, the resort unveiled plans to expand its snowmaking capabilities by 25 percent. This includes an area from Amphitheater to South Pass Traverse and through Sundance Gully and Lower Gros Ventre. The project will cost $1 million and includes the installation of larger water mains underground that will allow the resort to blow snow at numerous locations at the same time.

Jackson Hole Mountain Resort President Jerry Blann said the new snow machines will allow the resort to produce more snow on a larger portion of the mountain, resulting in the opening of additional terrain earlier in the season.

“This will get us out of the box and give us more diversity,” Blann said. “We will be able to have more than one run open early in the season.”

The resort suffered from a thin snowpack last December and some of January due to a dry start to the winter, one factor the resort considered.

“This last year we learned a lot,” Blann said. “So we’re increasing our capacity.”

There’s more exciting news for skiers and snowboarders. The resort has partnered with Burton to build four parks on the mountain that use natural elements, such as wood, trees, stumps and rock to create jumps, berms, rails and other exciting features.

The Stash parks will be on Deer Flats, Antelope Flats, underneath Amphitheater Traverse just south of the top of the Casper chairlift and Ashley Ridge.

Jackson Hole will become the third mountain in the United States to feature Stash parks, and the first resort in the Rocky Mountain region. The others are in Lake Tahoe, Calif., and Killington, Vt.

“These Stash parks fit our mountain and our terrain,” Blann said.

The resort will also add a fourth winch groomer to expand its groomer fleet to nine.

Meanwhile, there is just as much work being done to improve the resort’s summer activities. The biggest project is the addition of 3.7 miles, encompassing seven new trails, of downhill bike trails off the Teewinot chairlift.

 The resort hired Gravity Logic, which constructed the renowned bike trails in Whistler, British Columbia. The company is constructing trails that will appeal to beginner as well as experienced downhill cyclists.

“These trails are going to be full of action,” Rob Cocquyt, of Gravity Logic, said last week while working on the trails. “It complements all of the other stuff out there [in Teton County].”

The majority of the trails are in wooded areas south of the Teewinot lift and near the top of Eagle’s Rest. The signature piece of the trail system is a 6-foot-wide and 377-foot-long wooden bridge built over a boulder field.

“This will be a totally different world for bikes when we’re done,” Jackson Hole Mountain Resort park and pipe supervisor Ranyon d’Arge said.

One section of the new trail system, the R Trail, was completed and opened late last summer.

The resort isn’t ruling out opening a section of the trails late this summer, should they be completed. The entire new trail system will open by next summer.

Finally, the resort also announced Tuesday it is constructing 12 miles of new hiking trails that connect the gondola summit to the top of the Aerial Tram.

The trail system will feature a 15 percent grade and will be completed this fall.