was there again last Saturday and meet up with 2 of the county commissioners and the county coordinator . It was amazing to see how excited they are. The web site is up http://www.ohv.norrycopa.net/

Some trail cutting hopefully will take place come sept or oct and the plan is still to have the park open early next year with the camp ground starting around April. We picked out to trails to cut "perfect rocks" and "Precarious virgin"


Will be heading back in 2-3 weeks to flag out a coupe more trails. I will keep everyone posted.

Northumberland County will host a Public Input Session on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 6:30 pm, at the Shamokin Area Junior Senior High School Auditorium, 2000 W. State Street, Coal Township, PA 17866. The County has commissioned a study to develop over 6,000 acres of County owned property to create an Off Highway Vehicle (OHV) recreational facility. This meeting is being held to gather public input.

I will be there!

For anyone with future input, please consider the following:
I started going to Paragon over a decade ago, when it was a guy in parking lot taking money from a few trucks. It grew to a place where you’d see 300 trucks in the staging areas every summer weekend, and those people were staying in campgrounds and hotels and buying food and gas. Right off the interstate hotels, restaurants and auto parts stores sprang up as Paragon grew, I hardly see that as a coincidence. Paragon closed because the landowner thought he could get a better deal from a cargo airport, then the economy collapsed followed by the airport deal. That left a vacuum that is partially being filled by Rausch Creek, but Rausch is a lot further from metro New York (i.e. a lot of people looking for wheelin’ places) than the Elysburg area.
I have family in that area, its depressed coal country. Coal used to be king, but it’s an industry in sharp decline in that area and there were plenty of streets with shuttered business even before the national economy went south.

Since the airport thing fell through, I don't understand why that town can't figure out they were better off with the wheelers there than no one.

Although some of the town fathers were involved in the demise of Paragon, they were not doing so as part of their official duties, rather they abused their positions to push favors for a crony.

The landowner used and abused the legal system to crush Paragon, it was not an idea generated by the town's people or local gov't.

Although corruption can happen anywhere, the Paragon situation won't repeat here because the land is owned * by the county.
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* Edit 11/8/10
I forget the legal mumbo-jumbo; the County commissioners don't own the land outright, they have control over it.

Please sign and spread the link.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/nort ... ndohvpark/