Conference noted::bicycle

1460.0. "Trail closures are everywhere" by STAR::POLADIAN () Mon Mar 26 1990 14:19

This past weekend I went back home to NYC. While there I 
went riding with some friends. It's pretty hard to find some
mtn. biking in any of the five borruoghs. We all live in the
Bronx and have always used the horse and cross-country running
trail at VanCortlandt Pk. There are very few users of this trail,
runners and horses included. The trail is tiny, it has one steep
climb and one tight descent.

After finishing the first lap some park rangers told us that the
parks department doesn't want any mtn. biking on the trail 
anymore. I was pretty shocked since there are only a hand-full
of mountain bikers in the area and they probably out number the
other users of the trail. Anyway, it never occured to me that 
all these trail closures could be so far reaching as our little
park in the Bronx. now I'm living in NH and am wondering how 
many trail closures have occured around here. I'm going to go 
out looking for places to ride soon and would like to know
where its ok to ride, absolutely not ok to ride and where can
the rules be pushed. So if anyone out there can tell me where
to avoid and what places are worth checking out, it would help.
Thanks much

					-Grant 

    There is a White Mountain Bike Trail which I think is targeted for
    completion this summer.  I know nothing about the location or
    characteristics of the trail, only that it exists.  I get informed of
    these things because of my position as Pres of the GSW.  When I was
    told of it I thought I could detect a sense of "they actually did this
    and told me about it afterwards, and to my beautiful mountains, too"
    in the voice of the person who told me.  However it exists and I'll be
    finding out more about it later.
    
    ed