Daniel Boone Trail

File:Placeholder.jpg Trail Name Daniel Boone Trail Nearest City Duffield State Virginia Trail Marking Trail Use/Features Difficulty Rating Medium Hiking Time 33 Hours <br />0.188 Days <br />180 Min <br /> Distance, round-trip ~3-3.5"~" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property. Climb/Descent Elevation ~1,200"~" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property. / {{{Elevation Loss}}}"{{{Elevation Loss}}}" is not a number. High Point ~2,560"~" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property. Nearest Medical Pennington Gap, VA Trip Reports Click Here Loading map... {"type":"ROADMAP","minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","width":"270px","height":"180px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"visitedicon":"","wmsoverlay":false,"zoom":8,"layers":[],"controls":["zoom"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"resizable":false,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"cluster":false,"clustergridsize":60,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clusteraveragecenter":true,"clusterminsize":2,"imageoverlays":[],"kml":[],"gkml":[],"searchmarkers":"","fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":false,"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":36.71878000000000241698216996155679225921630859375,"lon":-82.810550000000006320988177321851253509521484375,"icon":""}]} Show Large Map

Trail Overview

Follow the footsteps of Daniel Boone up to a gap in Powell Mountain. Only part of the famous Wilderness Road which has not been paved.

How to get there

From Kingsport, TN

1. North on US-23 to Duffield.
2. Turn left/west at the red-light onto US-58/421 (Duff-Patt Highway).
3. Turn right onto one of the roads heading north (Industrial Park, Daniel Boone, or Technology Trail).
4. Turn left onto Fraley Ave.
5. Shortly you’ll see a “pink” or “orange” gate on the right. If the gate is unlocked, then head uphill to a parking area by the water tower. It is not recommended to drive further due to deep ruts in the roadway. If the gate is locked, there is parking at N36°43.179 W82°48.445.

Route Description

Lightly used. First half to three-quarters mile is a rutted gravel road. The path then becomes a former logging road winding up to the mountain gap. Return by same route. Reported to be a blazed route.

The trail is also reported to continue down into Wallen’s Creek valley for an extended hike.

Typical Conditions

Not a typical trail as more walking along wide gravel, and then logging roads. Views are limited by forests which line the path, thus late fall to early spring would be good if interested in looking down into the valleys.

Fees, Permits, etc.

No fees or permits are required for day hiking. Open sunrise to sunset.

Misc. Information

The prompt for creating this trail page was a story in the Kingsport Times-News. Here is a subsequent shorter blog page written from that story link.

There is also a different Kane Gap in West Virginia.

Virginia Birding website for the “Daniel Boone Trail”. There is another nearby path on a forest service road from the Jasper community up the mountain that is called the “Kane Gap Trail”.

Reported that the Morrell mushrooms are seen along the trail during second or third week in April.

Maps

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