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MID-COUNTY PARK - Blacksburg area:
The Mid-County Park is a forested, hilly, 110-acre recreation area on the outskirts of Blacksburg, hosting a community swimming pool
("The Frog Pond"), a play-ground, shelters, and a popular Frisbee golf course and a two-mile nature trail. The nature trail is heavily impacted
by the Frisbee course, under-utilized and badly eroded..
The mid-week crew's task is to relocate the trail route to minimize the impact of the Frisbee course on the trail experience,
improve access, and bring the trail up to contemporary standards, suggesting signage and natural features appropriate for a nature walk.
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Carvins Cove - Lower Trails Restoration:
This project centers around lots of trail improvements which we are very happy Roanoke City Parks and Recreation has
hired IMBA Trail Solutions to do most of the work on and also help lead volunteer teams which will help out and recieve training.
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on each workday to see who helped out.
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Carvins Cove - Four Gorge Trail:
This is an ongoing project to finish the >2 mile trail between HiDeeHoe and 1000' climb.
When done, trail users will have a non road choice to get to lower trails at the Cove.
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Vinton Greenways - Wolf Creek:
Pathfinder's for Greenways Wednesday crew member Lynn Bryant lead the team to build the Law-Fit Police Training
Course near the Wolf Creek Greenway in Vinton.
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on each workday to see who helped out.
Here are a few pictures from this project:
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Mill Mountain - Trail Work:
All the Mill Mountain trails have been assessed and a trail plan has been developed.
Much work is being done on the trails and
a few new connector trails are being built.
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Here are a few pictures from these projects:
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GRASSY HILL NATURAL AREA PRESERVE:
Here is a little information about a new great place that will soon be added to Virginia's wonderful array
of natural resources available for out-door recreation.
It is Grassy Hill. Approaching Rocky Mount from the North along Hwy 220 or Rt.919 (the old Rocky Mount road)
Grassy Hill is at first lost in the jumble of mountains ahead, but as one nears the outskirts of the town,
it raises up into an impressive land feature. See photo below. Now densely forested, its name is a legacy from
the grassy ridge-top which was prominent generations ago.
The mountain is unusual in that it is volcanic in origin. Its crystalline magnesium-rich bed rock and heavy clay
soils provide habitat for some rare wood-land plant assemblages. It is thus appropriate that this 1,295 acre mountain
preserve has come under the jurisdiction of The Natural Heritage Division of the Virginia Department of Conservation
and Recreation.
Greenway volunteers are just finishing up work on a mile-long section of trail to the top of the mountain.
About four additional miles of trail have been contracted out to a professional trail construction company.
This will be the longest hiking trail in Franklin County! After the creation of parking facilities, signs and maps,
it will be officially opened to the public. Note that because it is a preserve it will be open to foot traffic only.
We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the heirs of Dr. Henry Lee, a former prominent area surgeon,
for deeding this special place over to the Nature Conservancy, making it possible for the State to acquire the land
for permanent protection.
For further information, contact Mike Leahy, Preserve Manager, Roanoke,Va. at (540) 265-5234
and for more information on Virginia's Natural Heritage Program, go to
http://www.dcr.state.va.us/dnh
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Here are a few pictures:
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