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Trail Description:
The trail was once one of the railroads on Haystack Mountain. It is now out of service, and was used durring the 1800's. So here's a trail for all of you Archeologists wanna-be's!!!
How to get there:
Follow Rt. 40 untill you get to the stop light at the Vocke Road turn off. Now go out Vocke Rd. untill you reach the first light, and then turn left onto Braddock Rd. Follow Braddock untill you go over the "big bump" (You'll understand when you get there). The trail is onto the left side of the road, and look hard. Because depending what season you're in, the trail will probably be grown over with plants at the enterance. So look hard!!!
| Posted by: Geoffrey Atkinson on 8/28/2000 |
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This place has lots of possibilities (I grew up beside this mountain).There are several trak beds on this mountain, most ore quite short ( a few miles). There is a gnarly down hill that starts at the end of Nemacolin Drive (go up Sunset Drive to get there) and goes down hill to the Lavale Swim club (call it a mile). this is very advanced (It is known as the "power line" since it follows some powerlines.Also of interest is the "coal chute" - actually cinders. Trains used to dump their cinders here - it is a biggish very steep down hill of powdery cinders that is fun. If you pie the pain is not great as you land in cinders - but you will be completely black afterwards.Be prepared to share the trail with motorcycles - there are a lot of them up there - I actually have never MBed here - I have only experienced this trail on a Yahmaha YZ-125.
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