graded trails

krick3tt · Post by **krick3tt** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:51 pm

I am connected to a jeep website and have just read a recent post from one of the guys that are very active in desert wheeling...
this may make for some less than interesting wheeling on the local desert trails.

'.....Anza Borrego State Park now has a heavy equipment operator on full time staff. This operator has been bulldozing and grading the trails.

This past Saturday I, Fuel Rod, Pathfinder, and Jeep Frog ran down Turkey Track. What used to be a challenging trail for stock and near stock Jeeps and a fun run for built up Jeeps. It is now a smooth graded dirt road. That took a lot of fun out of the day.

I spoke to the Anza Borrego Visitor's Center this morning. I was informed that other trails have been graded. They are:
Jasper Trail
Grapevine Trail
Culp Valley Trail
Calcite Mine Trail

Further, the park intends to grade many of the roads in the park. They are talking about grading the bypass up to Sheep Canyon. They do not have a list for publication but they have a stated goal to smooth out the roads to make them more accessible. The visitor center did state that Heart attach Hill and Diablo Drop Off would not be touched because the heavy equipment can not negotiate the terrain.'

Hope this doesn't ruin any plans any of you may have for the winter desert trips.

Morris,
710M

milesdzyn · Post by **milesdzyn** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:50 pm

Well you had to expect that, after all they have sold a lot of H2's

Miles

KINSPINZ · Post by **KINSPINZ** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 7:52 pm

[quote="milesdzyn"]Well you had to expect that, after all they have sold a lot of H2's

Miles[/quote]

Yeah that is the problem!!!???

We run into this here in CO all the time. this is now a trend and sucks. its not only us, so make sure to make a point to try to keep trails open so one day we all can have a chance to check it out. Good luck.

David Dunn · Post by **David Dunn** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:05 pm

They paved Paradise, put up a parking lot.

Profpinz · Post by **Profpinz** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 10:32 pm

Unfortunately that's happening to a lot of good tracks here as well!
Last year a few of us drove up to one of our favourite "local tracks" expecting a good morning of challenging driving, only to find they had bulldozed the whole lot and put in a secondary gravel road

More and more we are losing tracks to this form of "mischief" (they call it upgrading

) ........ and they call us, the environmental vandals!

STPPINZ · Post by **STPPINZ** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:56 am

Happening in Moab too. Elephant Trail in Canyonlands used to be a great trail. It kind of weeded out to the few who could make it to Devils Kitchen and stuff. Now it is cemented and asphaulted so that a Civic could make it up and over. Pretty lame