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Open grassy ridge at 4,628 ft of elevation with triangulation station disk at corner of Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina | Open grassy ridge at 4,628 ft of elevation with triangulation station disk at corner of Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina | ||
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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
Photos
Triangulation Disk at TN-VA-NC Corner
