going to
not a great not a great entryway but this is what you gotta do to get up there
mike from the beaten trail here we are at ashland and uh it's really an overlooked
small little piece of land at famous reading outdoors and because it's isolated
uh the town of ashland sits right in the middle of ashland south and north and really there isn't
a legal way traverse at this moment from one place to the other but as you can see
we have a good group here today we're going to try to highlight a few things for you
in ashland and really maybe some of the sites you can see in town
for when you're out here but stay tuned we haven't we've been back to ashland south but
we haven't featured it in a video yet for a while it's been about a year since we did ashland video
uh for south so stay tuned and we'll uh we're gonna get out on the trail
now the trails at ashland south are long and straight and uh really they're enjoyable
you can actually ride for a couple hours if you're okay with to put up with some dead ends
now this land mass uh consists of a ridge line which uh extends a couple miles
so you will have some serpentine trails which go up into the hills now there is only one trail
that i am aware of that goes up and over to the ridge and that is a bit off camber as you can see
some of this is my camera and some of it isn't off camera but some of these uh trails will be
have a lot of flat rocks and at this point in the year you will get a bit of slippage when it comes
to trying to get up these hills so if you have good tires and you want an adventure just follow
the hill up to the top and you'll see where this goes up the ridge i don't know how far you can get
because we were not equipped to get up there but along with mile hill there's quite a lot to see at
ashland south you'll run into a lot of mud puddles here and there uh there are no real big bodies of
water until you go further west uh towards the end of the property um but uh we were out there
and we had a great time we had about uh 10 or 11 people and we were able to traverse through some
of the dropped logs i do get a lot of questions on facebook and on youtube about full size so
if you do have a full size i just recommend bring a chainsaw because even as a 60 or 68 it can be a
little tight and maybe you just want to trim that trail a little bit we did have a diverse group
of some trails and uh larger units we didn't have any issues but uh just like any location you can
have storm damage and trees falling so be sure to uh equip yourself properly and if not just be
prepared to turn around uh ashland south will keep you entertained for the day uh if you do
want a little bit more expansive uh traveling uh make sure you go to ashland north which is
separate but that'll allow you to traverse over to mount carmel and over to lucas gap
now most of the surfaces of these trails are going to be
uh gravel and large and small rock uh there's a lot of dirt and mud
but for the most part you're not going to see too too much of the calm or anthracite outside
of the parking lot mile hill and the surrounding lower trail which parallels the railroad tracks
and as always stay off the railroad tracks as per fro instruction that is federal land
what we enjoy the most is you really can get some good high speed at ashland south
if you want to be able to have some tests how fast you can go there's some good areas be
aware though that while it isn't super rocky you may have an occasional rock
come up to meet your tire and not so friendly away but as you can see plenty of pines plenty
of open space and new trails to explore the dead ends i would think are probably
more common here than they are in other locations but it does make for a variety
now on the way up to mile hill you will run into some washout and i call it out
only because you certainly don't want to be riding up there and run into this without
seeing it it can be a foot to two feet deep on one of the trails which is closest to the town
as you're coming up from the parking lot uh do be aware of it either you span it as 60 inches or you
go around it because it is pretty significant and i believe it'll wind up getting deeper
there's a lot of single track tracks both on ashland south and ashland north you'll see those
guys out there having a great time and if you do say hi it's always good to enjoy the trail
together it doesn't matter if you have an atv side by side or a dirt bike everybody's going to have
fun and we did and we recommend that you go and uh give it a shot uh if you can subscribe
to our channel we like to try to keep you up to date on the trails and the changes of the trails
i know that there's some new trails that we're going to try to review over at st kieran's due to
some of this active mining site modification but uh you know at the end of the day try to go and
check out some of the local attractions in ashland support support your local town so the first one
we have uh is the geyser and uh this you can drive to on the pavement with your car once you load up
and uh it's just um a man-made mining uh water outlet uh it gets higher and lower depending on
the rain level and the pioneer coal tunnel you can take a train into a real mine or into an old mine
and they have a little snack bar there you get some chicken fingers or hamburgers or whatnot so
be sure to support your local business it helps keep everybody uh everybody in business and uh
when you can go ahead and enjoy ashland south and the other properties are famous reading outdoors
do you have a location that you would like us to revisit or do you have a video that you'd
like to see please be sure to post it on here and hope to see out there on the trail thanks
you