Starting in April 2025, we’ve contracted Elevated Trail Design (based in WNC) to rehabilitate this .325-mile legacy trail to reestablish it as a sustainable system trail and connect these two popular areas in the heart of Pisgah.
They’ll perform work such as:
- Road-to-trail conversion
- Culvert removal
- Drainage improvements
- Rock armoring
- Stream crossing improvements
- Revegetation
- Erosion control
- Slide repair
They will also construct a large stone cribwall where the trail is eroding into a tributary of Cove Creek.
This project will result in:
- Restored drainage
- Remediation of several severely entrenched areas
- Stabilization of a slide through the construction of a stone retaining wall
- Improvement of a stream crossing to reduce sedimentation to the waterway
- A reliable and restored access trail between the Cove Creek and Daniel Ridge trail complexes
