We at Down East Cyclists are VERY excited to be hosting
CCORS Race #3 at our newly developed trail at the Henderson Pond Recreation Area
on board Camp LeJeune here in Jacksonville, N.C. Our volunteer work force
has been hard at work since December 2011 and have completed 6 miles of a
planned 7-8 miles of singletrack. As Eastern Carolina is missing the
"Mountains" we have tried to creat a course that is both technical and fast to
make it fun for our beginners and experts alike.
As our trail in on a military installation, please give
yourself a little extra time race day morning to pick up a visitors pass if you
are not a DOD member. This process is painless (unless you piss off the
guys with the M-16s :-) so if your car does not have a DOD sticker on it,
follow these instructions: When entering the base through the main gate
off of Hwy 24, keep to your right and enter the visitors center just before the
gate guards. Only the vehicles driver need enter the building and bring
your; 1-Drivers Licence, 2-Vehicle Registration & 3-Proof of Auto Insurence,
tell the persons working in the center you're here for the MTB Race and you
desination is the "Henderson Pond Rec Area". Passengers riding with
you need not go inside but should have some sort of ID on them "just in
case" the gate guard wants to see one. Once you have your visitors pass,
display it on the dash and head to the gate.
Directions to the trail:
Enter the main gate to Camp LeJeune off from Hwy 24, if you don't have a DOD
sticker on the car you're in, follow instructions above. Pass through the
main gate and continue straight through two traffic lights. Aproxitmitly
half mile past the second traffic light there will be a left hand turn cross
over road marked as "2nd Med PMU", there will also be race day markers there as
well. As there is no left hand turn lane here, please use caution and your
turn signal, there is a parking lot at the end of this road as well as
parking along side this road.
Any one looking to come check out the race course prior to
race day should contact Jeff LeBlanc for base access: ncleblancs@ec.rr.com