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Hollow Rock Access Area Master Plan September 2009 25 <br />• Natural — A couple of trails, low impact. An outdoor classroom for Forest View Elementary. <br />Maximum 4 picnic tables — good for school to do outdoor art projects. <br />• Parking access to trail going downstream toward Jordan Lake as well as access to a pedestrian <br />bridge over Erwin Road to Duke Forest. <br />• Meeting place for classes, simple education sites, museum, field guides unique to this site (our <br />school can help), bathrooms <br />• 1. Preservation and educational pieces related to the rich cultural and environmental history of <br />the area. 2. Hiking Ability to join various trails together and link up with Duke Forest trails so <br />hikers can do longer hikes (over 3 miles ... even 10 or 12 miles). 3. A primitive backcountry style <br />campsite or two (Like the new ones at Eno River Pipers Creek Campground) <br />• Well maintained hiking trails, benches along the way for sitting /enjoying the scenery, a rustic <br />assembly shelter surrounded by forest for discussions, food and drink and concerts, a facility <br />free of motorized vehicles of any kind, interests of children /young people should dominate. <br />Do you feel closing Pickett Road to through traffic would be positive or negative? <br />• Definitely negative. Pickett Road is a thoroughfare according to the staff presentation and the <br />public needs this east -west access. Instead use a pedestrian bridge over Pickett Road. It is not <br />likely that the state will close the road in any case. <br />• Negative. Close road. Consider options for access that would allow buses from other <br />communities. <br />• Positive <br />• Yes <br />• Positive. Would still like access from Erwin Rd if possible without a stop light- otherwise, just <br />close and get access another way. <br />• Positive <br />• Positive. I'm very sick of seeing all the trash, including things like mattresses, couches, <br />garbage cans and hit dead deer! Hooligans drive into the woods and still go hunting. Needs to <br />be closed. <br />• Very Positive, an opportunity for parking area <br />• Hiking, History Museum <br />• Positive. Very dangerous intersection with Garrett Rd, Add traffic light at Randolph and Erwin. <br />• Positive. Great for access to both sides of road, great for parking, safer for pedestrians, not <br />longer a traffic hazard on Erwin Road. <br />• Positive. Do it! <br />• Definitely positive. For many reasons. The exit from Pickett Road onto Erwin Road is extremely <br />dangerous and the Park. needs to be free of the traffic. <br />III. Results from the Dot Voting Exercise <br />Focus on Historic and Cultural History (30 dots total) <br />6 Amphitheater & Outdoor Classroom <br />2 Simple identification of what is there <br />6 Incorporate TLC structures into the site <br />1 Birding Tower <br />1 Program for school kids to come from urban areas and neighboring schools <br />14 Placed in general on sheet <br />Comment: Emphasize study of aquatic insect/ invertebrate life as indicator of water quality <br />Facilities for Environmental Education (25 Dots Total) <br />Comment: This is what makes this area unique, as compared to other outdoor facilities <br />22 <br />