Your input needed by end of day Friday April 4. Please take 5 minutes to tell the
Shenandoah National Park that you want to see bicycles on the administrative roads in the park. While this document will not include actions or management strategies, it is important for the park to hear from area cyclists.  Keep in mind that bicycles are currently only allowed on paved roads within the park which limits usage to the Skyline Drive. We have some of the key points that we would love for you to emphasize in your response: 

• Importance of the Skyline Drive to the region as a key attraction to make our area a  bicycle tourism destination.
• Opportunity for the Shenandoah National Park to provide safe and car free places for families and children to ride on existing and gated administrative roads.
• Need for safe bicycle connections between the Shenandoah/Page counties and the VA Piedmont. Especially as the region becomes known as a cycling destination.
• Request bicycle access to suitable administrative roads that exist within in the park that are currently closed to bicycles.
• Tell your own story about why you would like the park to open administrative roads to bicycles and how important it would be for you and your family.
• Write in your Comments Now

Take Action NOW and comment on the SNP Foundation Document

From the SNP Website:

Shenandoah Foundation Document Questions

The National Park Service is starting the process of preparing a Foundation Document for planning and management for Shenandoah National Park. The Park would like to invite the public to join in this effort.

A Foundation Document involves revisiting the Park’s core purpose and significance, most important resources and values, and the interpretive themes that tell Shenandoah’s important stories. The Foundation Document is not a decision-making document and does not include actions or management strategies. It describes a shared understanding of what is most important about the Park. In this capacity, the Foundation Document will reestablish the underlying guidance for future management and planning decisions for Shenandoah National Park. Because many of the Park’s original planning documents are out of date, preparing the Foundation Document is the first step for considering Shenandoah’s future planning and study needs.

The National Park Service invites you to play a role in charting the Park’s future by sharing your thoughts on what is most important about Shenandoah National Park, and to help identify its most pressing threats and its greatest opportunities. Park staff will take your thoughts and feedback into consideration as they prepare the Foundation Document.

Tell the Shenandoah National Park that you want better bicycle access to administrative roads.