Hello all,

Just what every taxpayer wants, a paved trail to hike and bike. This is especially ironic when there are budget shortfalls and a poor economy that leave little money for even maintaining parks much less improving them. The website link is a well designed, painless, and secure to protect your privacy and respect your time investment. Please consider adding your name to the list. You never know, the next place they might pave is a park near you like the Chattahoochee River parks in Atlanta or Unicoi.

Best regards,

The Alabama division of state parks is planning to pave the unimproved access road that runs over/along Double Oak Mountain at Oak Mountain State Park, the "red trail", and open this road to vehicle traffic. Those of us who live here and use the park frequently think this is a very bad idea. All of you have run on the red trail during the Oak Mountain 50K in the past (miles 21 to 25 or so) and many of you may return this year. If you think that paving the red trail is as bad an idea as we do, then please take a minute to sign the online petition at:

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/Redtrail/petition.html