Forging a path
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Earlier this year dozens of volunteers with Oak Ridge’s Mountains-to-Sea Trail Committee cut a .4-mile trail through the woods in the 130-acre Cascades Preserve, northwest of Oak Ridge, as part of statewide efforts to move the nearly 1,200-mile-long MST from busy roads to woodlands. The new trail segment, which opened May 3, crosses this stream in three places and connects with a 2.8-mile trail already within the preserve, which is owned by Guilford County.
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Fall 2019
Summerfield plans to celebrate the opening of the U.S. 220 pedestrian tunnel and sidewalk Oct. 5, while Oak Ridge continues work on Mountains-to-Sea Trail by CHRIS BURRITT SUMMERFIELD/OAK RIDGE – After the opening of the U.S. 220 pedestrian tunnel and sidewalk, Summerfield is throwing a party on Saturday, Oct. 5, to celebrate the long-awaited path for cyclists and runners. Meanwhile, Oak Ridge is pulling out the hoes and rakes, preparing to build another stretch of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail (MST). Whether celebrating or getting their hands dirty, trail supporters in Summerfield and Oak Ridge share a common vision: providing routes that are more scenic and safer for hikers, joggers
and cyclists than traveling on roads.
That’s the primary goal of volunteers statewide who are relocating the nearly 1,200-mile MST from busy roads to woodlands. Almost 700 miles of the footpath from Clingmans Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains to Jockey’s Ridge on the Outer Banks run through woods and fields. That leaves another 500 miles, including most of the section in northwestern Guilford County, following roadways. Oak Ridge’s MST Committee recently began building an approximately 1 ½-mile trail along the Haw River from Pepper Road to Linville Road. Earlier this year, volunteers finished a 0.4-mile section of the trail northwest of town. The Oak Ridge Town Council has embraced the trail, putting $50,000 in the current year’s budget for building the new section of the trail and a trail head parking lot and kiosk. It also appropriated $250,000 to build a halfmile sidewalk connecting two off-road
