Steele Creek Park

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Steele Creek Park is a very large 2,200+ acre city park south of Bristol, Tennessee. The multi-use facility has a nature center, regular golf course, a disc golf course, a lake, hiking trails, soccer fields, picnic tables with grills, a miniature trail, and more...

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How to get there

From Interstate 81:

  1. Take Exit 74A (which has Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center) east towards Bristol.
  2. At the second red light (CVS will be on your right), turn right (south) onto Highway 126.
  3. Travel for one mile, turn left (east) onto Steele Creek Park Drive.
  4. Travel for 0.3 miles and turn right (south), cross the bridge, and continue another 0.3 miles to main park gate.

Trailheads are behind (east) the nature center.

There are two other trail access parking lots.

Trails

The Steele Creek Park Lake splits the over 20 mile trail system into two sections.

Trinkle Hollow Trails

Trails Distance
SCP Quarry Cave Trail 0.4 mi
SCP Sinks Way Trail 0.6 mi
SCP Lakeside Trail 0.6 mi
SCP Hickory Ridge Trail 0.9 mi
SCP Fox Ridge Trail 1.2 mi
SCP Powerline Trail 0.3 mi
SCP East Ridge Trail 0.9 mi
SCP Rock Cut Trail 0.6 mi

Slagle Hollow Trails

Trails Distance
SCP Slagle Hollow Trail 2.5 mi
SCP South Ridge Trail 2.1 mi
SCP Tulip Tree Trail 0.6 mi
SCP North Ridge Trail 2.4 mi
SCP Cross Ridge Trail 0.8 mi
SCP Lake Ridge Trail 2.2 mi
SCP High Ridge Trail 0.3 mi
SCP Overlook Trail 0.1 mi
SCP Logging Road Trail 1.3 mi
SCP Hemlock Hollow Trail 0.7 mi

Maps

Steele Creek Park website Friends fo Steel Creek website Trail map