Excerpt from General Management Plan Amendment: Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument, Texas The existing trailhead for Alibates is reached by a 3-mile road from the contact station. This unimproved dirt road has some steep slopes, hairpin curves, and a section (about feet long) that is below the elevation of the conservation pool for the reservoir. The trailhead consists of a small (approximately 5-car) dirt parking area with chemical toilets. A one-half mile trail leads up a hill to some representative flint quarries. Several dilapidated wooden shade structures are along the trail. These are inexpensive units developed by yacc forces, but are none-the-less appreciated by visitors taking the tour up the hill. Under the amendment, visitors will gather at the contact station for guided tours of the site, as they do now, and will either caravan or ride the park van to a new trailhead location. New trails will provide access to the same quarry sites as interpreted now and also to a group of quarries that are closer to the habitation ruins. Interpreters will take short tours to the first quarry site, or a longer loop trip that will include the second quarry site and the ruins. Handicapped visitors will continue to be taken to the sites by a dirt road over private lands by making prior arrangements with park staff. There may be some potential for handicap access from the lower parking area to nearby flint quarries. Public use of a portion of the trail network will require the National Park Service to acquire rights or develop an agreement with the private landowner for access. This 300-acre parcel includes numerous flint quarries equal to the quarries within current federal ownership. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.