Edit Trail: Old Dug Trail

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Trail Highlight:
Trail Number:
Trail System:
Park:	The park the trail is located
City:	Leave blank to inherit park's location (sometimes large parks trail location could be closer to a different city than the main office, e.g. Great Smoky Mountains), otherwise assign nearest city to the trail.
Land Owner:
Wilderness Area:
Trail Marking:
Activities:	Hiking Boating Biking Geocaching Camping Skiing Horses Fishing Caving Climbing Hunting ATV No Dogs
Features:	Waterfalls Vistas Canyons Balds Rivers Lakes Mountains Caves
Difficulty Rating:
Hike Time:	(include units: hrs (default) or min) - Typical time from your vehicle and back to vehicle, include trail access and return time
Trail Distance:	(include units: mi(default), km, ft, m) - Length of the trail, does not include access or return
Round Trip Distance:	(include units: mi(default), km, ft, m) - Total typical distance to reach the trail, hike it, and return
Trail Type:
High Point:	(include units: ft (default) or yards)
Low Point:	(include units: ft (default) or yards)
Elevation Gain:	(include units: ft (default) or yards)
Elevation Loss:	(should be zero or negative / include units: ft (default) or yards)
Elevation Change Direction:
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Page Layout Templates and special editing tips

This is the desired page structure. Unused portions can be simply omitted/deleted. Desire to begin with a large map of the trail ({{Trail Map}}), then table of contents (__TOC__), then onto the page content.

{{Trail Map}}

__TOC__

==Trail Overview==

==How To Get There==

==Route Description==

==Typical Conditions==

==Fees, Permits, etc.==

==After the Hike==

==Miscellaneous Information==

==Gallery==
{{Park trail gallery|Trail={{PAGENAME}}}}

Useful templates in text sections
Name	Template code to insert	Description
Trail Map	`{{Trail Map}}` or `{{Trail Map \|Other Trails=<optional> \|Zoom Cancel=<optional, any entry to envoke>}}`	Returns a large topo map showing the trailhead and parking location. Replace <optional> with comma separated trails on this website. For the current trail page and any specified 'Other Trails' it will also show any map markers and KML file from the trail page. When displaying, if a KML file is found with the name of the trail page, it will provide a link under the map to download the kml file or to upload a replacement. If not found, it provides a link to upload a KML file. The Zoom Cancel command can be used if there are added map markers much beyond the uploaded KML, as default behavior is to zoom in on the KML.
Park trail gallery	`{{Park trail gallery\|Trail={{PAGENAME}}}}`	Returns a photo gallery of the images associated with a specified trail. This same template can be used for Parks simply by replacing Trail with Park. Images need to be tagged to enable the template to find them and show them.

Simple Tables are available to easily add tables to your page. This allows more "logical" and compact addition of simple tables to the page. You can also type out a table in a spreadsheet and save the content as a comma delimited or tab delimited file and paste it between the table commands. Tab delimited is useful if you want to use commas in the text. Excel's "Save as..." includes an option to save as either tab or comma delimited text files. After saving it, open the created text file, then paste the contents between the tab open and close commands. See the link for details but most usage is likely as follows (omit "sep=comma" if the data is tab delimited):

Example simple table usage

Wiki table code

How it would be shown

<tab class=wikitable sep=comma head=top>
Head 1,Head 2,Head 3
Field 4,Field 5,Field 6
Field 7,Field 8,Field 9
</tab>

Head 1	Head 2	Head 3
Field 4	Field 5	Field 6
Field 7	Field 8	Field 9

Free text:

{{Trail Map}} __TOC__ == Trail Overview == A hike up the west side of Holston Mountain past an overlook. == How to get there ==  From Kingsport, TN: #Take I-26 south to Exit 24 for US-321 towards Elizabethton. #Continue through Elizabethton. #Take left (north) onto US-19E. #Turn right (east) onto Holston Mountain Road. Note that Google Maps (and any app which uses the same database, such as Waze) labels this street as "Flatwoods Road" while the green sign at US-19E reads "Holston Mountain Rd". #After a couple of miles up the hollow, the paved roadway splits with Big Creek Road (no sign) heading to the right. Note: As of September 2017, an orange diamond "Road Closed Ahead" is visible from the split. The USFS road is open to this trailhead. Travel about 6 miles on unpaved road to trailhead parking area. #Gravel parking lot is on left (north) side of the road. The unmarked trailhead is back south ~50 feet and proceeds up the east bank. Big Creek Road is closed because a pair of large sinkholes are eating away at the narrow forest road. While some sources indicated Big Creek Road had a rough tread from the south, neither owner of a small pick-up or Nissan hatchback indicated they had problems reaching the parking lot. If coming from the north (Bluff City), the Big Creek Road is closed 0.33 mile away at a gravel parking area, thus a short walk on paved road is required to reach the trailhead. == Route Description==  {| class="wikitable" border="1" |- !Miles !Feature !Elevation |- |0.0 miles |Parking Area |2,300 feet |- |0.4 miles |Intersection with FS road |2,366 feet |- |0.75 miles |Continue heading up |2,360 feet |- |1.4 miles |Overlook |2,960 feet |- |2.1 miles |Intersect with which trail? | |- |} == Typical Conditions ==  The trail is a rutted and rocky logging road which winds up the mountain. It is not being actively maintained by the USFS. The is no sign at the trailhead nor any blazing, but the path is fairly obvious. In September 2017, the trail appeared to have had some ATV use. Another hiker of the path indicated that it was her former neighbors who have moved out of the area. ==Fees, Permits, etc. ==  Located in Cherokee National Forest. No fee to hike the trail. == After the Hike ==  == Misc. Information ==  Cherokee National Forest allows hunting, thus wear blaze orange during all hunting seasons. In September 2017, one group tracking squirrels were met, while another pair reported chasing a bear cub up the mountain. == Photos == {{Park trail gallery|Trail={{PAGENAME}}}}

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