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This site will be shutting down as of August 31, 2025. Take notes, make backups, train your models - whatever you need to do before then.

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Start of the Laurel River Trail

Past a couple of old railroad cars and a vacation cottage, the Laurel River trail begins following Big Laurel Creek downstream under some high bluffs.