Club News: Southeast

IMBA Trail News
Volume 15, Number 4
Fall 2002

The Hot Springs Bicycle Association in Arkansas has built a new six-mile trail on Garland County Landfill property. The trail combines singletrack, doubletrack, and dirt roads. More info: www.bikearkansas.com/hsba.

The 16th National Trails Symposium will be held November 10-13, 2002, at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in central Florida. IMBA is again a sponsor and the Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew will lead an all-day seminar. IMBA clubs and advocates are encouraged to attend. More info: americantrails.org.

The West Tennessee Fat Tire Association is busy in Mousetail Landing State Park. They've built six miles of new singletrack and are planning lots more.

After eight years of lobbying by SORBA-CSRA, the U.S. Forest Service has completed the necessary NEPA studies and granted approval for re-routes of the Horn Creek Trail in South Carolina's Sumter National Forest. SORBA-CSRA and the Forest Service teamed to design the re-routes. Horn Creek Trail construction is underway by Bill Victor and Michael Burton's Long Cane Trails LLC.

In Georgia, SORBA has purchased and outfitted its fourth tool trailer and added another Toro Dingo trail machine to its world-class trailbuilding outfit. Several other trail user groups are interested in borrowing/renting SORBA's tool trailers and Dingo with a trained operator.