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Revision as of 17:59, 26 January 2013
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...
<googlemap lat="36.573906" lon="-82.232582" type="terrain" zoom="14"> 36.573906,-82.232582,Steele Creek Park 36.5792,-82.226917,Mill Creek access point </googlemap>
How to get there
From Interstate 81:
- Take Exit 74A (which has Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center) east towards Bristol.
- At the second red light (CVS will be on your right), turn right (south) onto Highway 126.
- Travel for one mile, turn left (east) onto Steele Creek Park Drive.
- 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 |
Trail Conditions
Since the trail information on the park friends website was last updated in 2004, this section contains comments about the trail conditions until the individual trail pages are created.
August 2012: Open are Hemlock Hollow, Cross Ridge, High Ridge, and Lake Ridge. Impassable after 0.5 mile due to blowdowns and overgrowth is Slagle Hollow Trail.
Maps
Steele Creek Park website Friends of Steel Creek website 2010 trail map 2012 trail map