No worries, there is a gravel road that runs from Lonsdale to hot springs but its not a must. I like to ride it when I go just because its pretty. Most of it is under a canopy of trees. I can ride that when y'all aren't there.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe