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This
page includes information on trails in Pisgah National Forest outside the Trailhead areas listed
at the left.
Symbols: -- means not ridden.
* means not shown on map, new trail.
Numbers: Red: number shown on Trails Illustrated
map. Blue: number shown on USGS Quad
maps. Click on the underlined numbers to see the USGS quad maps of the
trail at topozone.com. Click
here for more information on the USGS quads.
Links: Blue
links are to Best Rides that include the trail. Green
links are to images taken from the trail.
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Other Pisgah National Forest Trails
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| Name |
Difficulty |
Length (miles) |
Numbers |
Comments |
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| Flat Laurel Creek |
More Difficult |
3.7 |
55 346 |
This entire trail is above 5000 feet.
Very rocky (sections of this trail are like a riverbed). Very
scenic--awesome high elevation meadows, many wet, seepy sections, creek
crossings, waterfalls, pristine waterways, and a recovering spruce-fir
forest. Images of this trail and Flat
Laurel Creek ride. This trail is part of the
Flat Laurel Creek best ride. |
| Ivestor Gap |
Easy |
2.0 |
72 101 |
Out and back only, so riding this is actually
4.0 miles. Mostly
flat, but extremely rocky with wet areas and springs. This wide, high elevation
trail (above 5000 feet) travels through an alpine-like environment, with
a few spruce and fir trees, grassy meadows, and dense heath shrubs like
rhododendron and blueberry. Berries ripen in August, when the road is
also open to 4wd vehicles. Intersects Shining Rock Wilderness (no bikes)
which is named for a spectacular white quartzite rock outcropping which
can be seen from the trail at one point. |
| Laurel River |
Easy |
3.6 |
* |
Follows
the river closely along its entire length. The Laurel River is quite
large and scenic, and it's popular with boaters and fisherman alike. The
trail is an old roadbed (perhaps an old railroad bed) and is relatively
level. Some sections are wet or rocky and somewhat technical. |
| Mill Ridge |
More Difficult |
4.5 |
* |
-- |
| Summey Cove |
More Difficult |
2.0 |
125 129 |
Provides access to the spectacular Courthouse
Falls, which is well worth the few hundred foot side hike down to the
base. Wet and technical in places up to the falls. Not ridden past the
falls. |
| Wilson Ridge |
More Difficult |
14.7 |
269 |
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| Woodruff Branch |
More Difficult |
2.4 |
256 |
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