Carvers Creek State Park: Sandhills access offers 11 miles in trails
SPRING LAKE — Colleen Bowers sat behind the wheel of the John Deere Gator, bouncing slightly in the worn yellow seat every time the four-wheeler encountered a bump on the hiking trail.The sand-and-gravel Longleaf Pine Trail she was riding on sliced through stands of long leaf and loblolly pine once the vehicle passed through a controlled burn tract of land, still smoking in places from the prescribed burn four days earlier. Some sweet gum and oak also thrive in this long […]
