A heads-up for anyone who parks along White Rapids Rd next to the elementary school to ride Smokey/Bandit/Rail/Gravy, the USNWC has decided to start ticketing cars parked there. I had a ‘discussion’ with the guy, he said you need to park in the official WWC lot to access trails and was writing tickets for the cars already parked there. I don’t believe they can legally do that as that part of the road is shown as entirely on the county land for the school. The WWC does own the land next to it, but not the road. It is a private road owned by the county, so they could ticket, but they would have to have put up no parking signs, which they haven’t done. Still, you would have to go through the trouble of fighting the ticket.

I wonder how many of the routine parkers have the annual parking pass.  I think the school parking lot had been used as routine and that the gate eventually became a problem for this.  Surely it is either the city or county doing the ticketing unless the tickets are a mere bluff and scare tactic.

Good ol WWC, always on point when it comes to making mountain bikers like them more and more...

Given that there probably aren't any cars parked on this street during peak school traffic time frames and that the cars aren't ever impeding traffic flow on what is a single purpose, dead-end street, I'd have expected the CMPD to have responded with something just slightly better than "no" to WWC.  Surely they have more important things to do.  I imagine that it is a short list of people that are regular users.  The WWC could probably convert enough users by placing some free annual parking pass stickers on cars on a couple of nice weekend days and then address the rest with signage.  They'd not actually adhere the sticker and would either leave a voucher or envelope with the sticker inside under a wiper.

JoeT wrote on 01/26/24 at 11:19am:


I didn't know about the lower price and haven't been there yet in 2024.  Has it been open yet?  Old Man Winter and the WWC trail system don't play well together and, and the trails are often in extended timeouts.