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The Southern Traverse Mountain Bike Trail
Harrisonburg, Virginia
MTB TRAIL STATS
Avg Rating:   |
3 trail reviews |
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Status: updated 7/25/10 by GoKite5 |
Difficulty:  Advanced |
| Length: 32 miles | Global Rank: #801 |
| Tread: Singletrack | Configuration: Out & Back |
| Ridden: 7 | Wishlist: 35 |
| Elevation Gain/Loss: +6,301/-6,060 ft | IMBA Epic Trail |
 2 trail check-ins |
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Description: This ride has it all; twisty, smooth, steep, narrow, rough, mossy surface.
The snaking trail follows the ridge south and is an amazing melody of smooth and fast downhills and technical rock gardens.
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Description: This ride has it all; twisty, smooth, steep, narrow, rough, mossy surface.
The snaking trail follows the ridge south and is an amazing melody of smooth and fast downhills and technical rock gardens.
added on September 3, 2009 by 
TRAIL REVIEWS review this trail
reviewed by johnfrog on September 22, 2011
Trail is not well maintained! Many bushes and weeds growing over trail. Uphill climbs are slightly ridiculous in terms of %grade. Also you can't go fast on downhills due to overgrown trails.
reviewed by papawhiskey99 on September 6, 2010
A must ride if you can get here. The trail head was tough to find but the guys at Shenendoah valley bike Co. were extremely helpfull. The payoff on this trail is absolutely worth it. The climb to the top is a steady easy ride on a fire road for about 4 miles. Take a left on the shenendoah mountain trail and follow miles of sweet singletrack. The trail had quite a bit of overgrowth so a GPS came in real handy. At times it seemed like the trail just disappeared. The widest the trail gets is about 12 inches making it very challenging especially at high speeds. Total length of ride was about 36 miles and 5 hours so bring LOTS of water and stuff to eat. There is a reason why I.M.B.A. calls this trail "epic".
reviewed by GoKite5 on July 25, 2010
I rode from the parking up the 4 miles of fireroad, then the 10.5 miles of up and down singletrack ridgeline to the mostly 5 miles downhill and had a pickup at Scotchtown Draft Rd. Gave me a fantastic twenty mile ride getting the major climb done at the beginning and enjoyed a downhill ending. If you want to ride an out and back, I'd recommend starting at Scotchtown Draft and riding up to the top of the singletrack about 16 miles and return. Don't run the fireroad then. This trail does have a fair amount of exposure on sometimes narrow trail. Not super technical, but have some moderate experience. Be wary in wet conditions. One of my favoritetrails anywhere.
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