Tidewater ATC Meetup

Meet in the Williams Branch Picnic area

Maintenance: Saturday, April 27th
Camping: Friday, April 26th – Sunday, April 28th
Saturday Dinner: the club will be providing dinner on Saturday!
Sunday: Hike one of the many trails in the area!

This is a weekend for us to do what the club was set up to do! We’ll maintain our assigned section of the Appalachian Trail, the Mau-Har Trail, the White Rocks Falls trail, plus more! Come out to our basecamp at Sherando Lake Recreation Area on Friday as early as noon; set up your tent at the Williams Branch Picnic Area, keeping in mind that the gate is usually locked at 10PM and opens on Saturday morning at 6AM. If the gate is staffed, let them know you are with TATC to help with AT maintenance and you will not be charged an entry fee. Crew signup sheets will be available Friday; Saturday organizational meeting at 7:45AM.

Agenda

-Regular Business
-Guest Speaker: The May presentation will be made by Dr. Sharon (Sherri) McQueen who is a member of the Lambert's Point City Park Campaign (LPCP) Steering Committee. The LPCP advocated for turning a 15 acre portion of what was the Lambert's Point Golf Course into a city park. TATC wrote a letter to the city of Norfolk supporting the campaign. On April 8th, the City of Norfolk formally designed the area as a park. Sherri will describe what it took to get the designation and what comes next for the new park
-50/50 and Merch Raffle

Our meetings are now being held at the Episcopal Church of the Advent.

Location - 9629 Norfolk Ave Norfolk, Virginia 23503

Please meet at Little Island Park parking lot, (the south end of Sandbridge) by 8:45 AM to sign in and we will depart at 9:00 AM. There is a fee to park in this lot. Ride sharing is encouraged. On-street parking may be available north of Little Island Park if you would like to ride your bike to Little Island Park. We will ride approximately 2 miles on Sandpiper Road to Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center.
At the visitor center, we will park bikes and visit the boardwalks and trails at BBNWR. After we have a chance to visit the trails at the refuge, we will gather and ride an additional 3.5 miles to False Cape State Park Visitor Center on one of the refuge’s dike trails. At the visitor center, there are bathrooms, picnic tables and a chance to refill water bottles. After a break at the visitor center, we will ride further into the state park and explore more of FCSP before returning to Sandbridge through BBNWR. This plan may be adjusted if we run longer than expected at any of our stops. Total mileage for the hike is approximately 20 miles round trip. This hike is limited to 20 participants.

The road surfaces range from paved roads with traffic on Sandpiper Road and the refuge access road to crusher run surfaces with loose gravel and uneven surfaces on the BBWR dike roads and within the state park. Bicycles with hybrid tires or wider tires are recommended.