Please Note:  In the Summer of 2007 Cumberland Off-Road tried to organize a clean-up at Mine Lick Creek.  In doing so we found out the riding area at Mine Lick Creek was privately owned land and the landowners were more than fed up with how poorly it had been treated. Fences have been cut, trash has been dumped everywhere, and people shoot guns in all sorts of unsafe directions while trespassing on their land. We discovered all of this when we as a club approached the landowners about doing a clean-up and education effort to keep things from getting so bad down there. Unfortunately, things have progressed so far that the landowners not only don't want to work with us, but are working with the county to officially close and permanently block all access roads to the area.

Anyone who rides Mine Lick Creek should understand that they are doing so illegally, and are trespassing on private property.

This is a great example of how not taking care of our places to ride can lead to them being closed. Make sure you are not part of the problem on the trail - and almost as importantly, call people out or gently educate them (depending on the severity of what they are doing) if you see some that ARE part of the problem. They'll ruin it for the rest of us.