GADSDEN, Ala. – Off-road vehicles will be banned from Little River Canyon National Preserve effective today.
Park Superintendent John Bundy says officials will begin enforcing federal regulations prohibiting the use of off-road vehicles and all-terrain vehicles on roads in the preserve.
Bundy says the National Park Service has mistakenly allowed ATV use on some of the park’s roads.
He says if roads are set up to be used by “street-legal” vehicles – even if they’re passable only with four-wheel-drive vehicles – the National Park Service classifies them as roads.
Bundy says most are converted logging roads.