Recreational Trails Expanding

• {West Virginia}...Efforts are under way to connect West Virginia's recreational trails and build new ones. Jeff Lusk, director of the Hatfield-McCoy Regional Recreation Authority, says a 9-mile trail will connect the Hatfield-McCoy Trails' Indian Ridge system in McDowell County to the nearly finished Pocahontas system in Mercer County. The connector will make trail rides of nearly 300 miles possible. Lincoln County will soon have a new trail system stretching nearly 100 miles across Corridor G from the Hatfield-McCoy's Little Coal River trail system. Work on the new Pocahontas trail system should be complete within 60 days. Lusk says a new trailhead facility at Bramwell, the gateway to the Pocahontas system, is in the works but won't likely be finished until April or May. He says planners have to work around coal, timber and natural-gas extraction sites.