I rode Rocky Branch recently and really enjoyed it. It has a lot of fun technical features such as jumps, drops, berms and such (with bypasses). This is rare to find in most Clt trails and it is nice to have a trail like this in Charlotte. I suggest keeping it as is and continuing to develop it as a technical trail.

We have a lot of flow trails already or coming to Clt so I would not want to see this turn into that type of trail.

One improvement idea is to improve the signage on the trail as it is easy to get confused where you are on the trail and how to get back. You can't get really lost as it is a small area but it has a lot of loops that intersect.

Keep up the great work and thanks for such a fun trail.

I rode Rocky Branch with rotorbaru for the first time this week as well.  Killer trail, that first mile or two of the trail is an absolute blast to ride.  You can tell someone spent some time planning since its easy to maintain speed.  Off shoots for more advanced riders etc...

On signage, I would agree that it needs some help for first timers.  We took all the black "offshoots" but it wasn't obvious that they connected back into the main trail.  I'm sure i'd make sense after a ride or two more, but clearer signage would be helpful.  Mainly around the open area off-shoots/fire roads.

Selfishly speaking, I'd like to see this trail stay way it is.  I wouldn't take my wife out there for a ride, but there are lots of options for her around Charlotte.  WWC, Springs greenway, Dixie River (hopefully soon) etc...  If they do add a machine built green section to draw in local new riders, i think it would be best suited as a loop around the perimeter of the property.  That way you can keep the fun stuff in the middle!

I feel like I'm echoing a few of the other previous posts, but the only thing I would change about RBP would be either better signage or a few reroutes to remove intersections to make the trail easier to follow.  I would prefer reroutes so that additional signs wouldn't be needed.  Less intersections=less signs and also would allow riders to keep their ride rolling instead of having to stop and check the sign or map to see where they are and which way they need to go to continue.  I know that the intersections were necessary due to the way that expansion sections were added after the main trail was cut and early reroutes were done, but I think that with a few reroutes, some of the intersections that seem confusing to riders/runners could be removed which would ease some of the confusion.  The trail has a lot of character and I wouldn't want to take that away from it.