(Updated) President pushes for bikes in National Parks
Author or source: Staff ~ 9:16 a.m. Nov. 9, 2008
Categories: Blog, Outdoors, Sports
GSMNP–According to Asheville’s WLOS TV, President Bush, lacking anything else to fret about these days, is pushing to change National Park Service rules so that individual park superintendents would be able to choose whether they want to allow mountain bikes.
Local bikers argue that bikes would cause no more damage than horses already do, but since horses — on the limited trails they can traverse — cause a large amount of damage, the bikers argument doesn’t seem like a great one.
A Great Smoky Mountains National Park spokesperson told WLOS that in his opinion, even if the rules change goes through, it would be a long shot in the Smokies.
The Charlotte Observer’s Jack Horan has a piece on these regulations here.
Tags: Asheville, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, GSMNP, mountains, smokies, WLOS
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