By fdserc in April, 2012
I rode the Reedy Creek trail last week (4/27/12) and was somewhat disappointed. It is paved and well maintained but it's not a rail trail. The name might lead you to believe as it did me that it follows the creek and is relatively flat but that would be wrong. The creek was rarely visible and the hills were real workouts. Unfortunately, on many of the hills the turns are way too sharp not to have to ride the brakes when going down especially with all the walkers strolling along in this urban area. So you work hard going up and then throw it all away to the brakes on the downhill. The trail continues into the Umstead State park where it becomes a wide dirt/gravel road - the kind where cars won’t go over about 20 unless they want to tear up their lower body paint from the all the stones. Again, well maintained but way to rough to enjoy any downhill coasting.