SIMPLE QUESTION – DOES FLATTOP Mountain HAVE A DEEDED ACCESS TO THE NATIONAL PARK?

The covenants of Flattop Mountain do not include a direct entry point into the Park other than the Fire Trail.

Knowing this is important as many misrepresented easements for walking to the park boundary as “Park Access” but once you hit the Park boundary, do you have deeded rights to enter and walk in? The park is posted with Boundry signs, and the Park fences may have fallen years ago; its remnants are still on the ground and in the trees.

When these easements were put in place, the Park did not charge a Daily Padestrain fee. It also would take an Act of Congress to Blaze an additional trial to intersect the Appalachian Trail.

Most of the trail easements on Flattop Mountain fall under the Private category and can easily be removed with an attorneys help, regardless of wording. In these cases, easements applied to the property and not the mountain as a whole.

If you were sold “Deeded Park Access,” you may have been lied to. If this is not the case, the Association should easily show the Memo from the Department of Interior notifying the residence of Flattop of exclusive rights and uses to the Park and Appalachian trail, ask them where it is.

If you do blaze a Trail from the Flattop subdivision using paint and trimmers, you are breaking federal law.

One thing we do know is that no property on Flattop has every had excluse rights to join a National Park Trail system. 

Rangers were given exclusive rights to monitor lots 90/91. When trespassing make sure you wave to the rangers cameras hidden in the park “(`(エ)´)ノ