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Trails and roads will be closed due to logging and research activity at Bent Creek in the upcoming months. Find more information on the Bent Creek Trailheads page.

A 245-acre proposed logging project on Case Camp Ridge, in the Davidson River area between the base of Looking Glass Rock and the Blue Ridge Parkway, will likely become an eyesore in addition to a headache for recreationalists as trails are closed. Get More Information.

The National Forest finishes some much needed improvements to trails in Bent Creek, including several minor re-routes and the addition of several parking areas. Find out more on the Bent Creek Trailheads page.

Conservation Road, the most convenient route from High Falls to Bridal Veil Falls in Dupont State Forest, has once again been gated and blocked. DuPont corporation, the Forest’s namesake, has once again taken over the industrial facility in the heart of the State Forest for the purpose of cleaning up the polluted site. Until this is finished, and the remainder of the land is transferred to the State, the road will likely remain blocked. Here is a good article about this in the Hendersonville News. It discusses impacts to forest visitors and a possible negotiation to reopen the road within “months, not years”.

This web site can now also be accessed by the address “MTBWNC.info” This should be an easier to remember address and is more consistent with WNCOutdoors.info (and this site’s sister, HIKEWNC.info), but all links to MTBikeWNC.com will continue to work and that’s where the site will stay hosted.

The Left and Right Loops of the Tsali Recreation Area have been made into one of IMBA’s official 2005 Epic rides. You can find more information from IMBA or more information about the ride on this site. Tsali joins Dupont State Forest as North Carolina’s second Epic.

Edit July 2007: Plans to expand the trails in Alexander Park have resumed.

Expansion at Alexander Park in Buncombe County has been halted. Workers at Buncombe County Landfill needed to build a road in the area where trails were planned to mine soil. A new loop was planned, and a skills/freeride area was planned to allow mountain bikers to test their agility and allow for more public events. A $50,000 grant appears to have been lost as well. See the July Pisgah Area SORBA newsletter for more details.