 You need a financial advisor with the freedom to focus on your specific needs. Whatever your goals, Reid Potter can create a game plan tailored to you. Call Reid at 432-0777 at Pikeville, Kentucky to learn more. Local officials gathered today at the Flatwoods Trailhead for the ribbon cutting of the Pike County Hillbilly Trail System. Phase 1 includes over 80 miles of trails ranging in difficulty from easy to extreme. Well, it's hard to express it in words just how gratifying this is. It's gratifying to me personally, but more importantly to Pike County and Eastern Kentucky. This is the biggest opportunity to bring adventure tourism into Pike County that we've ever seen. And this will only be built up on it. We will grow this trail system not only from this area, which is our Phase 1 of the trail system. All trail systems start in phases. You start one phase, then you go to another place, you start a second phase, and we will grow it that way across this large county. In addition to giving locals a new trail system, the trails are projected to bring in millions of dollars in tax revenue, aiding in the budgetary needs for the county. In a lot of effort to get here, it's been an effort that started under the last administration, the last fiscal court, and now it's continued under the current fiscal court. It's taken a lot of volunteer hours. We have a group of dedicated members of the Trail Advisory Board that have spent literally combined thousands of hours mapping trails, coming up with ideas, working to clean up the area. In the long term, we hope that the trail system will have a significant impact on tourism and adventure tourism in Pike County and Eastern Kentucky. To view the trail map or purchase a riding permit, go to hillbillytrails.com. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.