Twenty years ago, when Jeffrey Lusk became the first executive director of the Hatfield McCoy Regional Recreation Authority , the Hatfield-McCoy Trails network consisted of five trail systems offering motorized trail riders a total of 400 miles of trail in four southern West Virginia counties.

By the time Lusk, 56, of South Charleston, retired from the Authority on Dec. 1, the Hatfield-McCoy Trails had grown to more than 1,000 miles of trail in 13 trail systems stretched across nine counties, including one that links directly to Virginia's Spearhead Trails system . The Hatfield-McCoy Trails now annually draws tens of thousands of ATV-, UTV-, ORV- and off-road motorcycle enthusiasts — more than 90% of them from outside West Virginia — to the state's southern coalfields, where they pump

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