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Conservancy warns two Creeper Trail trestles need major work; closures planned in winter months
Summary
Lisa Quigley of the Virginia Creeper Trail Conservancy told the Washington County Board the upper trail’s Trestles 30 and 31 require significant repairs, that closures above Taylors Valley will be unavoidable during work, and that bids and contingency funding are in place to begin mobilization Dec. 1.
Lisa Quigley, executive director of the Virginia Creeper Trail Conservancy, told the Washington County Board on Sept. 24 that engineers identified serious deterioration at Trestles 30 and 31 above Taylors Valley and that repairs will require full closures of the trail section above Taylors Valley during heavy work.
Quigley said the U.S. Forest Service, which owns the 32 trestles above Damascus, completed inspections in 2021 and a private firm followed in 2022; those inspections singled out trestles 30 and 31 as needing "significant work," including installation of shoring jacks and core sampling of wooden stringers. "You’re literally stuck in the middle of the forest," she said, explaining that…
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