I have a friend up that way. They did get some rain this an so I called the park and they are open. 
Im heading that way now.

Was heading up there when the skies opened up, went home. As my kids say "#pissed."

Rode from 3-5 yesterday, not a drop of rain and the trails were in great shape. Hit all of Laurel/Wildlife area. Fast and flowy, nice way to break up the usual WWC trips.

journey wrote on 07/28/14 at 9:04pm:


about 2 miles to Monbo trailhead. mostly downhill to Monbo and uphill on the way back

Last weekend when I was weed eating the trail in and out of Wildlife, Casey said riders were asking for more miles, now you have 2 extra miles to get to Monbo and 2 to get back to the parking lot, everyone is complaining about it. 2.5 miles to Wildlife.
It wasn't a little warm yesterday, it was HOT! At least, you got to ride yesterday, but I didn't.

If I remember correctly, Casey said that is all the mbt trail at LNSP when we finished with Wildlife area. I don't think I would want to maintain any more miles of trail.

There had originally been a trail phase planned to the right side of the park near the park entrance (across State Park Road from the Laurel Loop).  We ran into issues with this possibly being the first choice for a visitor center.  The state then purchased the 249 acre parcel that became the Fallstown, Fox and Wildlife Loops which became an easier place to build.  Obviously, the visitor center was moved to the current parking lot so that land is still vacant.  There was also some layout work done on a potential loop on the opposite side of State Park Road from the Monbo Loop.  We ran into issues with the proximity to ranger housing so that was abandoned.

The DENR declared 30.5 miles was plenty of trail and cut us off.  The issue was maintenance.  With the occasional wind/snow storms that bring down a bunch of trees, 30 miles is a lot to maintain.