Community members are asking everyone to come out and celebrate the growing trail system in Surry and Wilkes Counties by attending the first ever North Carolina Trail Days Festival.

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INVESTIGATORS EVENTUALLY DISCOVERED THE MAN WAS INSIDE THE WALLS OF ANOTHER APARTMENT. BRIANA: NEW AT 5:00. COMMUNITY MEMBERS ARE ASKING PEOPLE TO COME OUT AND CELEBRATE THE NEW TRAIL SYSTEM. FROM ELKIN WITH A PREVIEW OF THIS FIRST EVER NORTH CAROLINA TRAIL BASE. >> VOLUNTEERS HAVE BEEN WORKING HARD FOR THE PAST SEVEN YEARS TO FINISH SEGMENT SIX OF THE MOUNTAINS-TO-SEA TRAIL, INCLUDING HERE. NOW THE OFF-ROAD TRAIL NETWORK IS COMING TOGETHER. AND THE TRAIL ASSOCIATION EXPLORE ELKIN AND OTHER COMMUNITY PARTNERS WANT TO CELEBRATE THIS NEW TRAIL SYSTEM AND SHOW HOW GREAT IT IS TO CELEBRATE THE OUTDOORS. IT FEATURES TRAIL TOURS, MOUND BIKE ADVENTURES, RIVER PADDLES, A 5K RACE, A LOW COUNTRY BOIL AND MORE. ORGANIZERS SAY THEY ARE EXCITED TO SHOW OFF WHAT THEY SAY MAKES EAST TRAIL SO SPECIAL. >> I HAVE BEEN IN THIS POSITION FOR 35 YEARS. PHYSICAL CUTIE GETS BETTER WHEN YOU ARE ACTIVE AND OUTSIDE. >> FOR MORE INFORMATION, TONIGHT YOU CAN HEAD OVER TO OUR WEBSITE.

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Community members are asking everyone to come out and celebrate the growing trail system in Surry and Wilkes Counties by attending the first ever North Carolina Trail Days Festival.NC Trail Days is in Elkin and Jonesville from Friday, May 31-Sunday June 2. A full weekend of activities and events for people of all ages is planned. The three-day event is celebrating the Mountain to Sea Trail, the trails in Elkin, hiking, paddling, cycling and everything outdoors. The festival is being organized through by Explore Elkin, the Elkin Valley Trails Association and other community partners.“We built a bunch of really nice trails and we just want people to come and enjoy it,” said Bill Blackley, the Chairman of the Elkin Valley Trails Association.“We just want to show off what we’re doing and invite people to see what a small community can do to enrich their community with trails.”Volunteers spent the last seven years working to build the off road trail network into what it is today.The three-day festival includes guided and unguided trail tours, mountain bike trail adventures, river paddles, two 5K races, food trucks, pancake breakfasts, a Low Country boil, a work day in Stone Mountain, a river cleanup, a ribbon cutting for a new trail in Jonesville, the dedication of the E and A Rail Trail as an official state outdoor trail, food vendors, a parade in Elkin, a kids adventure camp, outdoor outfitter vendors, a mountain bike exhibition and more.For more information about the event, click here Segment 6 of the Mountain to Sea Trail goes from the Blue Ridge Parkway to Pilot Mountain. Currently, this trail system is 1/3 off road trails but community partners hope to have the entire stretch of the trail network to be off road as soon as possible.