Ascalon Trailhead — Attraction in LaFayette

This trail is so flipping beautiful I love it if you walk far enough in the summertime you'll come out on this spot I call the grand canyon it's a really beautiful spot very scenic fair warning tho it is very very very very long first time I went here I didn't know what I was doing/where I was going so I ended up hiking well over 20 miles in the morning without food or water in my system my stubborn self tho when I saw other hikers I refused to ask for water which they clearly had even tho I was so thirsty I was literally drinking the sweat off my shirt anywho it's a great trail gotta love it except for the paid parking...but who pays that anyway not me I ain't no nerd 🤓 (Dear police for the record I do pay...🤞🏻...) Oh yea the reason I hiked like over 20 miles is cause I got lost last last time I went there I just walked off into the woods "towards the road" cause I didn't wanna repeat my first advent eventually tho I came out and ended up in what I call Mexico it's a little museum apparently, with a lot of words on it I can't read so either it's in Spanish or...

Wow. Was not excepting such a nice set up for the trailhead. We traveled from S. Florida to bike these trails and was not excepting a full blown fenced parking lot, toilets and a nice info board. While we were breaking for lunch the neighborhood patrol even made a pass through. I will say plenty of people used the parking lot instead of the toilets for the bathroom. Gross, but with composting toilets in the heat of summer kinda understand. The trails were well kept, smooth and fun. The marking was a little confusing and we did take the wrong trail twice. No big deal because they loop around. Pretty sure however people prefer a differnet trailhead to access the trails but we had no issue with the...

Could use some flat rocks to the drain areas or at least some bridges. There really should be more enhanced lines to one side of the trail to add fun for intermediate level riders though some of this has been done in places (see Alatoona). Good though. Full of potential. It is a non hand holding non man-made sort of flavor that is a step up in some ways from the difficulty level of Enterprise south. It is beautiful in its own way like White oak mountain. It is not smooth and flowy all the time like enterprise. It demands thinking and attention. I...