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| City = Mountain City | |||
| City = Mountain City | |||
| State = Tennessee | | State = Tennessee | ||
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| Trail Use = {{Hike}}{{Horses}} | | Trail Use = {{Hike}}{{Horses}} | ||
| Difficulty Rating = Difficult | | Difficulty Rating = Difficult | ||
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| Longitude = -81.7344 | | Longitude = -81.7344 | ||
| Medical = Mountain City | | Medical = Mountain City | ||
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== Maps == | == Maps == | ||
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<googlemap lat="36.541" lon="-81.7344" zoom="10" width="600" type="terrain" height="400" selector="no" controls="large"> | |||
36.541,-81.7344,Rogers Ridge Horse Trail | |||
36.58817,-81.67745,triangulation station disk for NC-TN-VA Corner | |||
</googlemap> | |||
== Photos == | == Photos == | ||
Revision as of 23:02, 27 May 2012
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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:
- Take I-81 north to Exit 19 for US-58 towards Damascus.
- Continue through Damascus.
- Take right (south) when VA-91 and US-58 split.
- Proceed back into Tennessee to Laurel Bloomery.
From Mountain City, TN:
- Proceed north on TN 91 for 7.7 miles to Laurel Bloomery.
Then for both routes:
- Turn at the A-Z Market onto Gentry Creek Road (sign to Pleasant Home Church) and proceed 0.8 miles.
- Make right turn onto Star Gap Road.
- Then quickly left again ton continue on Gentry Creek Road, which become gravel after 1.1 miles.
- 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.
Route Description
Since the trail is a horse trail, it starts with a creek ford but soon it is an uphill climb. It reaches a ridge and follows near it most of the way. At a fairly high point, it sort of goes through the yard of a house and then continues through woods a short distance to a road, which then leads on to the summit and beyond. Once it opens up to grassy fields, the views are splendid. Trail/road swings right to go almost east for about a half mile to the state line. A left turn past the summit leads down perhaps 100 yards to the marked tricorner point of VA-Tenn-NC.
A point of caution, when returning stay together to be sure to turn off the road where the trail starts.
Typical Conditions
Fees, Permits, etc.
After the Hike
Misc. Information
Maps
<googlemap lat="36.541" lon="-81.7344" zoom="10" width="600" type="terrain" height="400" selector="no" controls="large"> 36.541,-81.7344,Rogers Ridge Horse Trail 36.58817,-81.67745,triangulation station disk for NC-TN-VA Corner </googlemap>
Photos
Triangulation Disk at TN-VA-NC Corner
