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Orange County Department of Environment, Agriculture, Parks & Recreation <br />PO Box 8181, Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br />Phone: (919) 245-2510 <br />Fax: (919) 644-3351 <br /> <br /> <br />January 12, 2018 <br /> <br />Dear Sir or Madam: <br /> <br />On January 23, the Orange County Board of County Commissioners will consider <br />adopting a map that identifies the proposed Mountains to Sea Trail route through <br />Orange County. The proposed trail route approval is the culmination of over 16 <br />months of work and three community meetings in 2016-2017. The January 23 <br />meeting will be held at the Richard E. Whitted Center meeting room at 300 West <br />Tryon Street in Hillsborough. The meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m. <br /> <br />You are receiving this letter because you are listed as the owner of property that <br />is either a) along the planned Mountains to Sea Trail route; or b) within 1000 feet <br />of that planned route. A red check mark in the upper right corner of this page <br />indicates if your property is along the proposed trail route. <br /> <br />The trail itself will most likely be a narrow 3-6 foot natural surface path that <br />enables hikers to traverse the state, from, Clingman’s Dome on the North <br />Carolina/Tennessee state line, to Jockeys Ridge State Park on the Outer Banks. <br />The Mountains to Sea Trail, or MST, is a part of the State Parks system. Some <br />portions of the trail already exist, and in many urban areas the trail uses existing <br />municipal greenways. But one of the major sections that remains to be <br />completed is in the Eastern Piedmont between Greensboro and the Falls Lake <br />Reservoir north of Durham. <br /> <br />As you can see on the attached map, in the eastern part of Orange County the <br />trail will follow the Eno River – including the Town of Hillsborough’s Riverwalk. <br />Heading east, the MST exists on privately-owned land for 1.7 miles before <br />entering Eno River State Park to Durham County. <br /> <br />Orange County is the responsible party for working on the western section of the <br />trail that would connect Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area (and the <br />Hillsborough Riverwalk) southwest to Alamance County. <br /> <br /> <br />15