The Saltville Loop of Clinch Mountain Trail is posted with temporary signs so that regional birders may use the trail until the grant monies come thru to construct the "official" trail. The Town Manager, Jeff Smith, has promised to keep the trail mowed perodically for our use. The trail heads up beside the Dollar General store and runs behind the well field ponds. It loops back around a gravel lane to Lake Drive. Birders walk back up Lake Drive (aka the well fields road) between the ponds to the Dollar General store. The trail is a flat, easy walk. There is one fork in the trail which is posted to direct birders to the left fork. Should you end up at the fitness trail, go back and take the other left fork! Be sure to allow some extra time to visit the Museum of the Middle Appalachias while in town. Enjoy birding Saltville, Annette Poore Abingdon, VA