RBC I It hasn’t happened yet, but one day, bicycles and baby strollers will be welcome in wilderness areas. That’s the goal of the non-profit Sustainable Trails Coalition, which seeks to permit other forms of human-powered trail travel in wilderness areas, besides just walking.
Congress never prohibited biking or pushing a baby carriage. Both are banned by outmoded decisions that federal agencies made in the 1970s and 1980s. Over time, those decisions became frozen into…
Fine, if you’re going to promote an agenda, everybody has a right to their opinion. But please at least be honest about it. The board of the “Sustainable Trails Coalition” is all mountain bikers, their partner, the International Mountain Biking Association.
The Wilderness Act of 1964 is clear, despite the author’s attempt to twist it to support his destructive thesis. No. Bikes. In. The. Wilderness. Bicycling in the wilderness disturbs wildlife, causes erosion, and makes everyone else’s experience miserable.