The Friends of Machicomoco State Park announced the completion of an ambitious project to reclaim two miles of the park’s three-mile-long paved loop trail from more than a decade of overgrown sod and soil accumulation.
This paved trail is a favorite for visitors to the Hayes park coming to enjoy nature, walk their dogs, or to take their children for a stroll, a release stated.
The six-foot-wide asphalt pavement was built by a land developer around 2008 when Timberneck was slated to be a gated residential community. When the housing development failed, the land was acquired for purposes of building it out as a state park by The Conservation Fund, a nonprofit organization focused on helping nature and people thrive together.
By the time the park opened in April 2021, sod had accumulated over the trail, narrowing the exposed pavement to less than three feet wide in some sections.
Last December, Friends of Machicomoco State Park volunteers removed sod overgrowth on 0.6-mile of trail betwee...