Additional trails being built at Burning Rock

Burning Rock is in the process of building approximately 20 or more miles of new trails that should be ready by January 2011. The new trails are going to be located across Rt. 16 from the main trailhead area off of Tams Mountain.

I heard a rumor way back that this would be taking over by the Hatfield McCoy trails at some point

Bobby, I was speaking to one of the rangers at Burning Rock yesterday and mentioned that it would be nice if they could link up with the HM system and he said no plans for that at this point in time. He did say the permit price would not raise any for 2011.

He did say the permit price would not raise any for 2011 this sounds good

JWS wrote:

Bobby, I was speaking to one of the rangers at Burning Rock yesterday and mentioned that it would be nice if they could link up with the HM system and he said no plans for that at this point in time. He did say the permit price would not raise any for 2011.

I think it's just a matter of time as I don't think many people like myself from out of state will pay for a Burning Rock permit when you can get a H/M permit for the same price and have about 6 times the miles of trails to ride

Bobby D wrote:

JWS wrote:

Bobby, I was speaking to one of the rangers at Burning Rock yesterday and mentioned that it would be nice if they could link up with the HM system and he said no plans for that at this point in time. He did say the permit price would not raise any for 2011.

I think it's just a matter of time as I don't think many people like myself from out of state will pay for a Burning Rock permit when you can get a H/M permit for the same price and have about 6 times the miles of trails to ride

Maybe not the best way to go about it but a few years back I told them I helped set up rides from Ohio folks to WV. I asked if we could come down and ride for a few hours one day "free" just to see if we would want to set up a group ride there. Because we were always on our way to Hatfield trails. I felt like this would be a nice trade because if we liked it we would book future trips there. Well long story short, if you want to "try it out" you pay like everyone else. So my loss was and is their $$$$ loss forever.

Last time I went through Burning Rock there was lots of logging. Many trails were gone or closed. Has that changed?

Most of the logging is done and trails are now accessible however some more trails were closed due to a large strip mine operation that opened up.

Anything new up that way!! Been a couple of months since I have rode up that way!

thanks for the info