Spotsylvania County, VA Mobility & Curb Rules: Bike Lane Rules (2026)

The county's bicycle and pedestrian trail system is authorized separately under Sec. 2-11, and Sec. 12-22 protects trails built under that authority from motorized use. The prohibition sweeps in any vehicle other than a bicycle, and the section specifically lists motorcycles, minibikes, all-terrain vehicles, mopeds, motorbikes and motor vehicles as examples of what is barred; the only vehicles carved out of the ban are wheelchairs and other apparatus built to transport a person with a physical handicap. 2 of the Code of Virginia under Sec.

12-2, Sec. 12-22 is a standalone county rule enacted by its own ordinance, Ord. No. 12-11 in 1993, so it applies specifically to the trail network rather than to public roads or striped on-street bike lanes. 2, an older statute number carried over from a prior recodification of Virginia's local government code. Because Sec. 12-22 addresses shared-use paths rather than roadway bike lanes, a cyclist or driver using a striped on-street lane is instead governed by the general rules of the road adopted under Sec.

12-2, not by this trail-specific section. The sheriff's office enforces the trail restriction alongside its other traffic duties, and the section applies uniformly to every trail segment the county has established, without a trail-by-trail exception list in the ordinance itself.