
This is a helmet cam video of my ride on the (South) Cross County Trail - Occoquan Regional Park in southern Fairfax County to Gateway Regional Park at Fairfax Circle in Fairfax City, VA (shot with a Vhold Contour HD wide angle camera). The trail has been incrementally developed over the last decade (the southern portion, and a northern leg running from Oak Marr Rec Center all the way to Great Falls National Park). The south trail in particular has been built with a surprising level of sophistication; employing a variety of bridge designs, engineered concrete & stone fair weather crossings, multiple trail surfaces (asphalt, crushed stone, concrete, brick), ample width, and connecting some of the regions best recreational amenities (Wakefield mountain biking trails, Lake Accotink, the still developing Laurel Hill area/Lorton Arts Center, and Occoquan Regional Park. The north trail employs a still wider variety of fair weather crossings (several large boulder crossings of Difficult Run are quite amazing), however it is less refined - with a good portion (perhaps 30%) only single track dirt. In addition to linking W&OD Regional Park, Reston, and Great Falls National Park, the potential exists to connect an improved north county trail to Wolf Trap and Lake Fairfax via the existing stream valley parkland right of way. Despite the effort put into each leg, the trails are not well activated. Enveloped in the Accotink , Pohick, and Difficult Run stream valleys, entrances are <b>...</b>
Cross County Trail
George Mason University
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