Well, when the trail was originaly made there were only 5 or 6 guys that rode it. We kept it well maintained and would do maintenence when it rained to make sure there was pleanty of drainage without destroying the hill side. The majority of the trail runs over flat rocks and drops so there was very little uprooting of vegitation.
Parks and Rec just turned their head then because there was realy nothing bad happening to the hill side.
Within the last year or so people started bringing other riders in that could not ride the trail they way it was designed so these so called riders started creating new lines through the bushes and such and never helping keep it clean. Then we got a few idiots (not you LostC.) that could not keep their mouths shut and started posting on the net, talking to people at shops and basicaly any where they could which brought alot of attention to the area.
Yes, you can see the trail from the freeway and it looks like shyt because of all the kooks making the trail wider every time they ride. Originaly you could not tell. So now there is no way Parks & Rec can turn their heads because of all the plublicity.
There was a point that we could have gotton the area leagalized but most freeriders a round here have no idea or just do not care about weather or not a trail is leagal and they would not give up time to try and work things out.
There are a few of us that are working on getting some land open for cyclists so we will see what happens.
Enough ranting.