Mountain Top Shuttles LLC dba Mountain Top Trails
Providing Trail Design, Construction and Maintenance throughout Western North Carolina and Trail Training throughout the Southeastern US
Trail Training
Providing 2 and 3 day training in Trail Crew Leadership, USFS National Sawyer Program and Beginner - Intermediate Mechanized Trail Building.
Jeremy Poore became the Director of McDowell Tech Trail School in Old Fort, NC in late 2022. He is a C-Evaluator for the US Forest Service - Developing Thinking Sawyers program and provides training and evaluation for Forest employees, trail professionals and volunteers.
Jeremy teaches regularly at SORBA (Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association) Annual Summits and for Chapters throughout the Southeast. He facilitates organizational level setting through the Trail Crew Leader Program and has worked with the following organizations to bring their Crew Leaders together in the spirit of sound trail maintenance, safe wilderness crew leadership and the JOY of the OUTDOORS.
FRIENDS OF THE MOUNTAINS-TO-SEA TRAIL
FRIENDS OF DUPONT STATE FOREST
G5 TRAIL COLLECTIVE
PISGAH AREA SORBA
NORTHWESTERN NC MOUNTAIN BIKE ALLIANCE
FOR MORE INFO ABOUT TRAIL TRAINING AT MCDOWELL TECH
McDowell Tech Trail School opened a campus in downtown Old Fort in Fall 2024. Through our partnership with the US Forest Service and the G5 Trail Collective we have access to a beautiful forest with tons of trail maintenance and construction opportunities.
TO LEARN ABOUT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES NEAR OLD FORT, NC
There are so many ways to learn and volunteer. Check out the G5 volunteer page here for local workdays.
Trail Building
Natural surface trails connect you to magical places and sustainable design leaves minimal impact on the land while requiring less maintenance. Mountain Top Trails focuses on a wide range of trails from short (less than one mile) natural connectors to large bike park design (see 112ac Foothills Watershed Bike Park). We are regular contractors for the US Forest Service via G5 Trail Collective and complete work throughout the Grandfather Ranger District of Pisgah National Forest. We are also co-founders of Foothills Watershed Bike Park and created park design, signage, EMS planning, trail layout and trail construction throughout the park alongside other professional trail builders, Geosculpt Trail Design and Elevated Trail Design.
Services
Sustainable Trail Design
Trail Project Management
Mapping and Signage
Trail Construction
Maintenance and Trail Repair
Trail Design, Construction, Maintenance and Repair
MTB Optimized Trail Build
During our first ever trail at Watershed Bike Park, a plate compactor is used to tamp soil and minimize erosion
Upper Catawba Falls
Wildland Fire Fighters from Colorado assist in hand building 600 feet of trail through steep rhododendron and rocky outcroppings
The “Upside Down Sea Shell”
Students in a Trail Crew Leader training mark their “Knick” and begin constructing a drain on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail near Boone, NC
