460 Trails in Western North Carolina, North Carolina

Trail Name Difficulty Length (mi) Rating City
Boone Greenway (Greenway Runarounds)  difficulty 2.3 Boone
Bracken Mountain (Bracken Preserve)  difficulty 1.3 Brevard
Buckhorn Gap / 103 (Clawhammer Creek)  difficulty 1.6 Brevard
Carpet Loop (USNWC)  difficulty 0.8 Charlotte
Cat Gap  difficulty 0.6 Brevard
Chimney Rock #154 (Paint Creek)  difficulty 1.3 Newport
China Creek Trail  difficulty 2.5 Boone
Cove Creek Connector  difficulty 0.3 Brevard
Daniel Ridge Connector  difficulty 0.1 Brevard
Deep Gap #449 (Panthertown Valley)  difficulty 1.0 Cashiers
Deerfield Connector (Bent Creek)  difficulty 0.1 Asheville
East Main Loop (USNWC)  difficulty 3.9 Charlotte
Enchanted Forest (Fisher Farm Park)  difficulty 0.2 Davidson
Figure 8 (USNWC)  difficulty 0.8 Charlotte
Fish Dam Creek Trail (Kerr Scott Trails)  difficulty 0.4 Wilkesboro
Flat Laurel Creek Trail  difficulty 2.7 Brevard
Sheltowee Trace, Section 31 (Sheltowee Trace)  difficulty 7.0 Flatrock
Granny Burrell Falls #486 (Panthertown Valley)  difficulty 0.4 Cashiers
Greentown Trail (268)  difficulty 3.1 Morganton
Headwaters (Kerr Scott Trails)  difficulty 1.4 Wilkesboro
Hicks Creek Loop (Itusi @ Lake Norman State Park)  difficulty 0.7 Troutman
High Shoals Falls Trail (South Mountain Loop)  difficulty 0.4 Morganton
Horse Cove Gap  difficulty 0.9 Brevard
Ingles Field Connector (Bent Creek)  difficulty 0.2 Asheville
Ingles Field Gap #150 (Bent Creek)  difficulty 1.3 Asheville
Jackson Knob Trail  difficulty 1.6 Morganton
Joe Vines Trail  difficulty 0.1 Morganton
Keendergarten (Rocky Knob Park)  difficulty 0.2 Boone
Kessel Run (Fire Mountain Trail System)  difficulty 1.3 Cherokee
Lake Loop (USNWC)  difficulty 2.4 Charlotte
Lake Loop Connector (Kerr Scott Trails)  difficulty 0.1 Wilkesboro
Land of the Lost (Moore’s Springs Trails)  difficulty 1.6 Danbury
Laurel Loop Connector (Itusi @ Lake Norman State Park)  difficulty 0.2 Troutman
Laurel Mountain Connector (Laurel Mountain)  difficulty 0.1 Mills River
Lazy Elk (Fire Mountain Trail System)  difficulty 0.6 Cherokee
Long Branch / Trail 116  difficulty 2.4 Brevard
Lower Wilson Ridge (269) (Wilson Ridge (269))  difficulty 0.8 Mortimer
Major Tom (Moore’s Springs Trails)  difficulty 1.4 Danbury
West Loop (Alexander Mountain Bike Park)  difficulty 2.2 Asheville
Main Loop (Fisher Farm Park)  difficulty 1.1 Davidson
Middle Earth (Rocky Knob Park)  difficulty 1.1 Boone
Middle of Nowhere Connector (Rocky Knob Park)  difficulty 0.2 Boone
Middle Wilson Ridge (269) (Wilson Ridge (269))  difficulty 1.6 Mortimer
Fonta Flora County Park  difficulty 5.6 Linville
Mullinax Trail  difficulty 0.8 Mills River
North Central Loop (Tanglewood Park)  difficulty 4.0 Winston-Salem
North Main Loop (USNWC)  difficulty 1.4 Charlotte
North Side (Moore’s Springs Trails)  difficulty 1.2 Danbury
Northeast Loop 2 (Tanglewood Park)  difficulty 0.7 Winston-Salem
Northeast Connector (Tanglewood Park)  difficulty 0.1 Winston-Salem

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