Chilhowee Mountain Trails - Nashville Mountain Bike Trails (sitios de interés)
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Azalea Trail #141
Beginner/1.5 miles
This ride is fun for beginners and experts alike, with fast narrowsingletrack leading mostly downhill (if you start across the lowercampground road). You can use this trail to connect up with the rest ofthe system or just as a short loop back to the campground area.
Benton Falls Trail #131
Moderate/1.5 miles
This wide track leads from the lake to the waterfall. Watch for hikers and be respectful.
Clemmer Trail #302
Advanced/1.5 miles
4.5 miles on Benton Falls Trail to the junction of Trail #302
A classic screaming downhill or a gut wrenching uphill (depending onwhich direction you ride it). Clemmer has it all: several creekcrossings, rhododendron tunnels and surfaces ranging from sandy torocky. The high end of the trail is at the beautiful Benton Falls(accessible from a short hiking trail.)
Clear Creek Trail
Advanced/3+ miles
One of the most challenging trails in the system; be ready for somekiller climbing, 3 extreme switchbacks, one of which is just barely butnot impossible to ride. Be very careful especially in the middle ofthis trail where there is a fairly steep rock cliff area. Near the end,be ready for an extremely fast downhill with some wonderful whoops tofly off of. There are a couple of options at the end of this downhilldepending of how wet you want to get.
Rim Extension
Moderate/0.4
A short technical sidetrail.
Slickrock Trail Loop
Advanced 3+ miles
A sweet trail system which is actually a small network of trails hookedtogether by a couple of old Forest Service Roads. You will findsingltrack with climbing twists and turns and some fun downhills withwhoopde-doos. One section has been unofficially named Naked Widow Loop.This stems from several sightings of an elderly woman bathing in thesmall creek at the middle of the branch. Legend has it she lived withher husband on the Benton side of the mountain when her husband died,whereupon she began to endlessly wander the trails.
Trail map HERE.
