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Originally Posted by solar1
I agree. Gotta love the how the Feds finally closed it down using loop holes. You can't even get a vehicle back to the stair steps and pink rock is gone as well.
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The feds didn't close anything. Can't "close" a place that was never officially "open" to any kind of offroad activity. 909 is a state/county road. It goes from rt 25 all the way to rt 80. At one time it was a maintained travelled road, evident by such things like the full size schoolbus stranded way back there, etc.
The only place you are "legally" allowed to drive down there, both currently and in the past is on the main road, as it is a county road. Everything off the main road is privately owned land, and therefore you are trespassing. No different than if someone decided to take their jeep and tear up your back yard at your house.
The landowners just looked the other way for years, because it really didn't affect them too much. Until... these landowners decided to let some logging companies come in and do some logging. This was all fine and dandy until all of the million dollar logging equipment started to get vandalized and destroyed. At that point the land owners had no choice but to get the authorities involved.
As more and more land was given up to logging, it became necessary to smoothe the areas out even more, such as pink rock now being a "paved" road.
It's sad to pull in there now and see it the way it is. I miss those trails. They were our stomping grounds for years. Big Wally, Falcon's Ridge, the Playground, Ghost Hill, the Notches, the Coal Chutes, etc. It was Livingston that made me fall deep in love with wheeling.