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Backlot Trail Opens Trail Connections in Charlotte with Drew Thrasher



Segment 3, October 21st, 2023

Trails are important to a community in a tons of different ways.  They provide a connection to nature & landscapes, they help protect green spaces & animals, they provide a place for exercise, & they provide access to places of history & heritage that we may not otherwise have.

Charlotte’s trail system is expanding & here host Bill Bartee speaks with Drew Thrasher, board member of SPAN & founder of Charlotte’s Urban Hike.

Here you’ll learn more about:

NC”s Year of the Trail in 2023, so with the state promoting the thousands of miles of trails in the state.
The Ongoing Networking & Connection of Trails in the SouthPark area of Charlotte.
What the trail systems of The Loop, the X-Clt Trail, the Carolina Thread Trail,& the Backlot Trail have in common.
The 1024 Ribbon Cutting Celebrating a 0.3 mile section of the Backlot Trail coming up.
Why is such a short section so important?
What’s allowed?  Bikes, Walk, Electric?


Wrapping up this Week’s Show



Segment 4, October 21st, 2023

Thanks to Drew Thrasher of SPAN for joining the program & letting us know about the 10/24 Backlot Trail Ribbon Cutting at 11:45.

Thanks to Sam Johnson of Wild Bearings Outdoors for coming on and letting us know some of the best fall fly fishing places in western North Carolina.

Remember make the Carolina Outdoors better than you found it…& pick up your trash.