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Committee flags easement and legal-access concerns for Hell's Revenge and Slickrock trails
Summary
Committee members and BLM staff discussed easement history and legal-access constraints, warning that changes to an applicant’s legal access or improvements (paving) could alter trail character, affect management, and harm local guiding businesses that rely on current trail conditions.
Committee members and BLM staff discussed the history of trail easements and potential consequences for the Hell's Revenge and Slickrock trail corridors if the rezoning proceeds. Katie Stevens (BLM) confirmed that the BLM holds an easement on the Slickrock bike trail dating to 1969, and staff noted paperwork corrections made in 2016 when Raven's Rim was built.
Committee members emphasized that an applicant’s legal access determines where improvements could occur. Kristin Hoffine (staff) explained that "whatever that legal access is is the only one that they have that they have control over," and warned that if legal access aligns with trail corridors, improvements or paving could "fundamentally alter" trail character and diminish the experience that supports local guiding businesses. Members said the economic impacts on about 75 local businesses operating under BLM permits could be substantial if trail character is changed.
