4C National Recreation Trail - A 20-mile Hike Through the East Texas Piney Woods
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 เม.ย. 2022
- Join me as I hike the southern half of this trail.
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I hiked this from the bluff to the lake in July 1982 while attending SFASU. Camped overnight in the Adirondack shelter about mid way. It was a shaded scorcher that weekend. Also traversed the trail a few times on mountain bikes. The trail was in great shape back then. It's recent demise started with storm damage from several hurricanes after 2005 and then tornado damage after 2010. Most of the trail has been closed since. Like you, I snuck in a few times but I didn't get very far. The large pine trees littered the trail like matchsticks. Nature doesn't always cooperate with us humans but it sure is beautiful. Love your videos.
10 or 12 years ago I use to hike all the trails in the Wilderness Section of the Lone Star Trail. I even planned how to do a through hike of the whole trail. Then the big fire closed significant portions of the trail. Then old age set in. Hard to hike more than 4 or 5 miles with just water and a machete to clear portions of the trail. I always carried a hiking stick for water crossing when the bridge was out.
The bridge you turned around at just goes over some low land that sometimes floods. The bridge across Hickory Creek is still intact. The “levi” you were on is the old 4C trail tram, if you pay attention you should occassionally see an old crosstie.
I love your videos. Thanks for making them. I know it takes a lot of time. I'm hoping to see a lot of these places. Big Bend is my favorite place to visit in Texas so far. I live in Deer Park.
Thanks for wink and the nudge. I think sometimes the trails are closed so the local officials/rangers don't have to worry about hikers getting hurt on a damaged/neglected bridge and having to get rescued. On a federal level though, we have a right to be there, it's National Forest.
Much of the trail maintenance is done by volunteers from what I've read. To get repairs done, I believe, would be a matter of getting with a local trail association in the area. I know the Boy Scouts used to do a lot of that work years ago. I have no idea what they're doing now.
I've recently been getting back into hiking and backpacking and this is one on my list. I've wondered what condition it's because I knew it had some damage a few years ago. Thanks for the great video and tips on the trail!
As always, top notch job on your videos sir. I absolutely love seeing the all the little gems I had no clue about in my home State. Just to throw at you, and the only reason I know about it is because I want to hike it. You have been right next to it in a few of your videos, so I assumed you knew about it. It’s called the North East Texas Trail(NETT) and it runs the old railroad tracks from Farmersville to New Boston, about 130 miles of trail to walk, hike or bike. I wanted to share with you because it goes through all of the old towns. Thank you again for all that you do.
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I live fairly close to there. They came through years ago probably around 2014 and built a lot of those bridges and walk trails with convict labor from the east ham unit.
And they had one of those 100 year flood that came through I think in 2019 and wiped all of that stuff out. The last minute or so of your video you were actually walking down one of the old railroad tracks.
I was in there the end of last summer and I was amazed at the damage.
I think since Covid they stopped all of the off unit work crews that used to go up there.
I just discovered this trail on my OnX maps app. Dang shame its messed up. I was instantly planning a trip in MArch or April. I guess i better call ahead. Thank you for the video
Great video,,,I've never even heard of this ! Glad you can tackle trails such as this,,,,,,I do worry about water moccasins,,,,,and such, great video for the places you've never heard of !
Never knew about the trail. Thanks fir the info
Hell of a job. Terrible shame on the conditions.
Thank you for sharing your adventure.
It's a gorgeous hike. Thanks for the warning about the bridges.
Thanks for another great video. Walked the 4Cs trail with a friend back around '84 or '85. It was a beautiful trail. Walked it like you--from south to north. If I remember, there was a shelter about halfway on the trail where we slept overnight. Sorry to see it in disrepair.
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Around 4:15 when you go over that bridge there is what appears to be a spider in between two boards. Looks kind of creepy. Love your videos! Keep it up!
Wow! I've never heard of this trail. Definitely needs new bridges and trail work. East Texas is so beautiful.
East Texas is part of the South while the rest of Texas isn't part of the South.
So sad to what's happened to that trail. Looks like a wonderful area.
Hi. Enjoyed this video, even though the "closed" section was disappointing.
I like this kind of trail and it is a shame that it has been left in such bad condition.
I've recently moved to south Mississippi near the DeSoto National Forest.
The Black Creek Trail (40 miles long) was once a wonderful trail. But due to lack of budget and personnel to maintain it, has gone the way of the 4C trail. I'm trying to "reopen" it, adding/updating markers (plastic diamonds - just like what you showed), but with only a hammer and nails for the markers, and a long-handled lopper, it is not possible for it to be done by hand.
Thanks for sharing this interesting trail (such as it is).
It does look peaceful. There are parts that need attention.
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The Texas Department of Corrections has Inmates who could do the work to repair and beautify this trail.
My wife and I did this trail in 2016 and it nearly killed us. All the walkways and bridges were blown out - all of it.
I don't know how many ravines and streams we had to traverse. Veg was waist high to over your head.
USFS sux balls.
Sad to say but a lot of the historical parks and trails in East Texas are being left to rot.. like this trail
The Thimas J. Rusk homestead in Rusk Texas has been allowed to waste away pretty much.
The Violet Crown trail will eventually go from Austin to San Marcos.
A ribbon theres no way anyone could get past it without some heavy equipment lol
I'll bet the chiggers were in full force in those woods! Great p[lace for water moccasin encounters, too. That trail is in really bad shape. Makes you wonder what they spend our tax money on because it certainly is not spent here.
I'm not sure the range of chiggers in Texas but there aren't any where I live and there weren't any on this trail. I did pick a couple of ticks off of me though (no ticks where I live in TX either).
Many people in Britain think Texas is a west state but its a Southern state
I hope im right lol
I view it as a hybrid state. It doesn't neatly fit into any region. East Texas is more like the south, west Texas is more like the southwest, South Texas has very strong Mexican influence, North and Northwest Texas is the Southern Plains, and Central Texas has a lot of German and Czech influence historically.
@@secretsoftexas6872 I think only East Texas could truly be considered as part of the South. The rest of Texas features prairies and ranchlands. The rest of Texas could be considered as part of Great Plains or the Southwest.
@@powerfulstrong5673 Geographically speaking you have a point. Culturally speaking it's been part of the south. It was a slave state in which many Southerners migrated.
@@luperamos7307 I don't think all of Texas could be considered as part of the southern United States. I think only East Texas east of I-45 can truly be considered as part the southern United States. Even in culturally speaking, the most of Texas is little different from other southern states because the other southern states do not have the cowboy culture and the other southern states do not have a large Latino population.
@@powerfulstrong5673 I'm no expert and this merely reflects my opinion. But Texas had loads of Southerners migrate their back in the day, which gave it the same culture. They also depended heavily on slaves. The Latino population is just a result of Texas being next to Mexico and got this large in later years. That wasn't always the case though. I guess it's a hybrid like the guy making these videos says. But given the hot, humid weather in all major Texan cities except for El Paso also never makes me feel as if it's in the West.
What a shame condition of this trail our government
Looks no different from North Florida