rob23
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I just got back from ridding Echo Lake Park in Westfield. This place has a lot of potential for new trail.
The woods are open and easy enough to ride through so trimming wouldn't be a problem. There are existing trails there including some great little downhills, roots, rocks and nice loamy dirt. There's definately some room for more trail. Not a bad place in Union County to kill an hour or two.
We should build some trails there! I don't think anyone would mind or care; a lot of the park is neglected and littered. Some ares of the park I just rode through the woods, no one even goes there but I noticed some good terrain in there.
I've read a lot of griping here about not being able to ride Watchung or South Mountain. We could link this park up with trails in near by Lenape Park, Nomahegan, Black Brook and Rahway River. Those parks could use some more trail too, especially Lenape. With all tha area to cover we won't need to ride South Mountain and Watchung.
Well if anyone cares to layout some trail or just go for a ride drop me a line.
Here are GPS tracks of the trails at Echo Lake along with waypoints for each trailhead I found. See waypoints starting with EL. Try to ride my tracks and burn some new trail in!
see ya in the woods`
http://gpsroutebuilder.com/GPS/NJ/Parks/NJ_MtnB_Trails_v3.gpx
p.s. you can open this file in Google Earth (a free download) if you don't have a GPS. From Google Earth you can convert it into a KML file.
The woods are open and easy enough to ride through so trimming wouldn't be a problem. There are existing trails there including some great little downhills, roots, rocks and nice loamy dirt. There's definately some room for more trail. Not a bad place in Union County to kill an hour or two.
We should build some trails there! I don't think anyone would mind or care; a lot of the park is neglected and littered. Some ares of the park I just rode through the woods, no one even goes there but I noticed some good terrain in there.
I've read a lot of griping here about not being able to ride Watchung or South Mountain. We could link this park up with trails in near by Lenape Park, Nomahegan, Black Brook and Rahway River. Those parks could use some more trail too, especially Lenape. With all tha area to cover we won't need to ride South Mountain and Watchung.
Well if anyone cares to layout some trail or just go for a ride drop me a line.
Here are GPS tracks of the trails at Echo Lake along with waypoints for each trailhead I found. See waypoints starting with EL. Try to ride my tracks and burn some new trail in!
see ya in the woods`
http://gpsroutebuilder.com/GPS/NJ/Parks/NJ_MtnB_Trails_v3.gpx
p.s. you can open this file in Google Earth (a free download) if you don't have a GPS. From Google Earth you can convert it into a KML file.
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