 You need a financial advisor with the freedom to focus on your specific needs. Whatever your goals, Reeve Potter can create a game plan tailored to you. Call Reeve at 432-0777 at Pikeville, Kentucky to learn more. The Appalachian Wireless Arena and Pikeville City Tourism are in the process of establishing a trail system which will begin and end at Bob Amos Park. The trail name is going to be the real McCoy Trail, which I thought was fitting for Pikeville since the McCoys were from from Pikeville and the old saying the real McCoy, meaning it's the real deal and this trail is going to be the real deal. The trail is a five mile loop with multiple different terrain types and ever-changing scenic beauty. There will be sections of the trail for different skill levels including very strenuous, strenuous, moderately strenuous, moderate and the easiest sections to provide hikers of all skill levels a challenge. We're also going to do some vegetation identification on the trail by using certain types of markers. I'm not going to go into too much detail on it because it's kind of going to make it a surprise, but it's not going to be your typical tree markers as this is the species of tree and that's what it is. It's going to be interactive so it's going to make the trail users actually have to learn why that tree is the species that it is. Not you just look at it, oh that's too popular, okay, but it's actually going to explain to you how you can tell it's too popular if there wasn't an identification tag on it. We also have considered and have already implemented some structures on the trail like rope assist, the wearer trail users on the highly strenuous sections. They can actually use an existing rope that is placed permanently on the trail to pull ourselves up some of the steeper areas as well as maybe even doing some primitive exercise equipment on the trail made out of trees. Pikeville Fire Rescue has been assisting in the clearing of the trail which is currently about 50% cut out. Without them there's no way we could have got this trail, even 50% of it done that we've got now. We certainly needed the labor and the expertise. These guys cut fire lines as part of their job so they're no stranger to cutting trees and blowing leaves with the blowers so they've been great. I know speaking on behalf of the city and the arena we greatly appreciate their help and hope that they can continue to help until this project is completed. Despite the pre-existing trails within the area, Collins hopes to appeal to a wider audience of adventurers who seek a greater challenge on a multifaceted trail system. We needed a good, strenuous, classified hiking trail in Pikeville. We've got the multi-use trail which is great. It is very appealing to anybody that wants to walk a fairly easy trail system. It's paved approximately 50% and DGA Compacted Rock the other 50%. We've also got the Blankenship Handicap Trail which is ADA accessible. But we didn't have a good established hiking trail and a lot of people they like to get off the beaten path. You know, they want to get up in the mountains where you'll get those nice scenic views of the city from up at high elevations, etc. And that's what we're hoping to accomplish with this trail. So this is kind of a missing piece that we needed at Bob Amos on our trail system. And a lot of this was pre-existing trail that somebody had done years ago. It just hadn't been maintained. So a lot of this work had been done previously. Anyone who would like to volunteer or coordinate a trail working day to help the project come to fruition can contact PJ at patrickatappwirelessarena.com. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsey Dean.