Reroute
- Date Posted
- May 5, 2022
- Section
- Road Fork
- Chapter
- The Wilderness Chapter
This update applies to maps printed prior to May 2022.
The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) has closed and plans to reroute SR 537 between Dearth Ridge-Rias Run Rd C13 and Clearfork Road T307. This section of highway encompassed the whole of the trail between Road Fork Pts. 17 and 18. In response to this closure, the BT and the Forest Service have permanently rerouted the trail between these two points.
Please add 1.2 miles to CW distance at each point 18 through 31 and add 1.2 miles to CCW distance at each point 17 through 1. Note: the log below has the corrrected miles.
CW 30.9 S | CCW 32.8 N | Point 17 | End of Dearth Ridge-Rias Run Rd (C13) at (SR537)
Continue straight ahead from Dearth Ridge-Rias Run Rd. onto (SR 537). Follow the highway south on a flat open area that parallels the Clear Fork of the Little Muskingum River. After about 1 mi, the trail turns left onto (T313, unmarked), a gravel access road that crosses the Clear Fork on a new, modern bridge. After a few hundred yards, bear slightly left (an oil tank on the right) as the roadway fades and merges into an off-road, wooded trail. The trail starts flat and then gradually climbs about 200 feet at a modest grade, and after about .6 mi, it intersects and turns left onto unmarked (T312). The road runs a bit north and then east onto unmarked (T313) where it ends at Clearfork Road (T307). The trail turns left, and after about .6 mi, a prominent Forest Service sign for Lamping Homestead, a National Forest Wayside with hiking trails and pond, marks this intersection.
