Born Activist

Save Flightline Trails

FlightLine is an area in Carlsbad California that has been used and maintained by mountain bikers and trail runners for over two decades. The city of Carlsbad refers to the area as Carlsbad Oaks North. It was originaly set aside as wide open natural space to help mitigate impacts from all of the commercial development in the Palomar Airport Road office park development projects.

Flightline (Carlsbad Oaks North) is owned by San Diego County and is managed by the Center for Natural Lands Management (referred to from here on out as CNLM) which runs the land under the rules of a Conservation Easement. This easement doesn't allow bycicle use on public land. CNLM has recently been ordered by the county to close the entire area to public access.

RideFlightLine.com was built to help organize all of the community support to save the FlightLine trail system. The online petition was created to centralize our voice. The trail pictures page was created to inspire people who have not ridden the trails to support our cause. The Riders Blog was created to keep riders in touch and offer ideas to alternate riding areas until the FlightLine situation is resolved. The Progress Blog was created to keep everyone in the community informed of the progress we are making with all of their help. The support page was created as a page mountain bikers that wanted to help save the trails could go to and take action online.

posted by MILO @ 3:14 PM