Tom_in_CA
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- Mar 23, 2007
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.... asking them about who owns the trail ? Seriously ?....
I bet that that the average person, who lives in a place where a "trail" laces through the countryside near their house, probably merely assumes "public". Simply because that's where everyone has always/ever walked. Like a short-cut trail that crosses a vacant corner lot, etc.... Nobody blinks twice at walking their dog, and following trails, that have always ever been used in their neighborhood.
So it just struck me that if the OP is walking right past the house, and trail skirts right up next to it, well : Could he detect the immediate environs of the trail (in-so-far as the section immediate to the house). But .... sure , to step any further off the trail in the direction of closer-to-the-house, then he would need to go to the assessor to find the exact invisible line in the ground where "private" starts. He might be surprised to find out the trail itself crosses through private land. Yet had never been a big deal. Then, of course, he will stop walking the trail from then-on-out.