Hi Mapbear, the trails come from Rother Wanderführer Schottland, Rolf Gantzhorn, 2019 ed., if you own the book you can download, but usually the trails in the Rother Books are not very accurate. At least what I have seen in Cyprus and Greece... many hikers from German language countries use these red book, in fact in some remore region nearly all hikers. A should have referred to the as RW20 as i did with the other day sections, but somehow I forgot, RW20 stands for Rother Wanderführer Trail No. 20. I know, the Rother is sometimes a problem, as they recommend hikes which are not waymaked properly, but in scotland this seems to be the case quite often, in Greece, thats the usual case, can't see much in the field. Regards from Switzerland Martin

Hello, yes in fact this is a dirtroad, the old Israeli border patrol road. At the parking space there is a big red/white sign "no motorized vehicles" (allgemeines Fahrverbot), so even if you could drive the road (we haven't hiked it), I would not do so in Israel. The other road further south leading to Jordan river is an old asphalt road, partly overgrown plants, partly gravel, but that one is allowed to drive. Regards from Switzerland Martin

We were there, and thought to be able to drive part of the way. There was a sign Road closed at the beginning and concrete blocks on the road after the thater. You can pass on foot or by bike as its park of long distance hiking trail E6 (you find some very old rusty signs...)
Bulldozers have mad the road twice as wide as expected on the satellite images, they are now doing conrete tunnels for the streams. we saw people working on huge concrete structures for one tunnel and they had already done a few. Some farmers drive around the blocks through the vegetation to reach their flocks, but you should not be guided there with navigation systems (thats why I would mark the road as closed).
It seems, the road is closed for several months now and it will take them probably another 6 or twelve months, but I think it's a project of a major road along the coastline and not just minor roadworks on a track used by farmers, probably the new road will connect Alexandropouli - Dikelly with Maroneia. There is no end date for the works, but it seems they are really doing a major new road construction. I do not know how to tag better, but it should be clear, that you cannot pass by car and can follow the E6 trail on foot and by bike, regards from Switzerland Martin

We wanted to hike this part of E6, the scenery was nice, but it was, definitely, a road under construction. I guess there will be a tarmac road next time we pass there, regards mb

Are you sure? Two weeks ago the road was blocked, there was a big red and white sign "no motorized traffic", they were working on conrete tunnels for the stream and of course with an offroad vehicle or tractor you can pass, but visitors should not be routed there until the road is finished and open to the public, regards mboesch

Thanks for the information; I just did not want to delete the old bit on road 886 because some might use it when it is raining... regards from Switzerland Martin