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Spring Is The Perfect Time To Head To Hatfield-McCoy
ATV Trails
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Hatfield-McCoy
trails offer great scenery and challenges
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Lyburn, WV - (3/19/2009) -The mercury
is climbing, the buds are bursting and the trails
are ready: it’s almost spring, so get your
gear ready and head to the Hatfield-McCoy Trails.
“While the Trails are a fun ride any time
of year, spring is one of the best,” Executive
Director Jeffrey Lusk says. “It’s not
too hot, and you get to see the re-emergence of
the green and beauty of the trails. “Besides,
with the spring rains we get, there’s plenty
of mud to splash around in!” Lusk said. “For
most people, April showers may mean May flowers,
but for the off-road enthusiast, it just makes it
that much more fun.”
The Pinnacle Creek and Little Coal River systems
are especially high on the list of places to ride
this spring, he said. “Pinnacle Creek is awash
in rhododendrons and when they’re blooming,
it is one of the most beautiful places in the entire
state,” he said. “Much of the Little
Coal system borders a wildlife preserve, so it’s
not unusual to spot a variety of wildlife –
deer, grouse, even a few bears – on a ride,”
Lusk said.
Also, Lusk noted, Hatfield-McCoy has recently opened
all Blue Trails (more difficult) to utility type
vehicles, making about 80 percent of the system
accessible to the wider, side-by-side machines.
Permits are available online or at vendors throughout
southern West Virginia.
The Hatfield-McCoy Trails was created by the West
Virginia Legislature to generate economic development
through tourism in nine southern West Virginia counties.
The system comprises more than 500 miles of off-road
trails in six systems scattered over southern West
Virginia, each of which is open 365 days a year
to ATVs, dirt bikes, select utility vehicles (UTVs),
mountain bikes, horses, and hikers. Many of the
trail systems also offer community connecting trails
that allow visitors to access “ATV-friendly
towns.”
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