Description
This trail provides access to Coonskin Park and runs near the adjacent airport. Sections of the trail are very steep. While the majority of the trail is not a rail-trail, there is a short section that runs parallel to an out-of-service rail line, making it a very short rail-with-trail.
Parking and Trail Access
trail update
By
dan117
in
August, 2011
I have to disagree with some of the information posted about this trail. I have ridden this trail regularly over the past few years. I will agree that only a small portion of it was originally a rail bed then it splits away. However, the terrain is not ...
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Inaccurate information.
By
in
February, 2007
"This trail is far too steep for wheelchair access, unless the person had a very strong attendant; parts of it are too steep for all but the strongest cyclist. At one point runoff from the airport created so much mud I had to pick up my bike and walk ...
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On further consideration. . .
By
in
February, 2007
"Although it is a good backdoor into Coonskin Park from Charleston, it:
1. Is not a RailTrail. There is an abandoned rail line that follows the Elk River, cuts through Coonskin Park, and then goes on to Clendenin and beyond, but it has not (yet?) been ...
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