Rogers Ridge Horse Trail

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Trail Overview

Open grassy ridge at 4,628 ft of elevation with triangulation station disk at corner of Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina

How to get there

From Kingsport, TN:

1. Take I-81 north to Exit 19 for US-58 towards Damascus.
2. Continue through Damascus.
3. Take right (south) when VA-91 and US-58 split.
4. Proceed back into Tennessee to Laurel Bloomery.

From Mountain City, TN:

1. Proceed north on TN 91 for 7.7 miles to Laurel Bloomery.

Then for both routes:

1. Turn at the A-Z Market onto Gentry Creek Road (sign to Pleasant Home Church) and proceed 0.8 miles.
2. Make right turn onto Star Gap Road.
3. Then quickly left again ton continue on Gentry Creek Road, which become gravel after 1.1 miles.
4. Continue on rough gravel road for 1.4 miles and park at road end.

Point of information is that the first cul-de-sac parking lot reached on the gravel road is for Rogers Ridge Horse Trail. Veer to the right to continue back to the dead end cul-de-sac with a trail marker for Gentry Creek Falls trail.

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