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Increased use of the W&OD Trail, and the search for a missing woman along it, has prompted Sheriff John R. Isom to ask the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors to pay for a motorcyle that will be used to patrol the trail.
The Sheriffs Department is still searching for clues in the disappearance of Judith Lynn DeMaria, last seen in the Sterling area Aug. 7. The search has been concentrated on the trail where bloodstains, suspected of being those of the 27-year-old tennis instructor, were found.
During last Wednesday’s board meeting, Isom asked for about $8,000 in his current budget for purchasing the motorcycle. The board took no action last week, but is scheduled to consider the request Sept. 3.
The sheriff said he planned to seek the money next year, because he expected paving of the trail from Sterling to Leesburg to be finished in 1986.
But he noted last week that paving has already been finished to Leesburg, and that there is now “extremely heavy traffic” on the trail, which is used by bikers, joggers, horseback riders and others and is operated by the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority.
The 44-mile trail goes from Alexandria to Puree 11 ville and is paved to Leesburg. About 17 or 18 miles of it is in Loudoun, beginning in Sterling and cutting through Leesburg to Purcell ville (the trail actually goes to Bluemont, but the park authority only owns it as far as Purcell ville).
Although the park authority has no precise figures on the use of the trail in Loudoun, the authority’s executive director, Darrell Winslow, said it is far and away the busiest of the 14 parks the authority operates.
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