BLEDSOE STATE FOREST TRAILS

PICTURES at http://imageevent.com/vmaxept/bledsoestforesttrails

Here are pictures from the TN ST forest we ride in. Location is off TN HWY 101 north/west of Pikeville TN. There is suppose to be over 50 miles miles of trails?? I sort of doubt it. We have not ridden all the trails. There is a large flat  field and old saw-mill shed that riders are permitted to camp for no charge.  I guess over 50 rigs could get in there. Need to call the ranger first. Much of the trails are stone road with very wide DIRT-GRASS shoulders. Other trails are ATV/4x4.There are a few horse only trails but that never works. Add to that a few wildcat trails and there are plenty of places to ride. This is a multi use trail system. We have cleared many downed trees and trimmed out brush over about 10 miles since we have been here. Most trails are 'ATV' high, we trim to horse rider height. The local horse riders do not do much. We are working with the forest managers to do our part. The trails are flat and fast. There are some sections that show the ATV wear and tear, but are actually in OK condition.  Our guys are getting use to the loops and know when to pick up the pace. I have GPS files of some of the loops. I will post them to my web site at www.vmaxept.com/bledsoetrails.  
We are about 1.5 hr from East Fork and 30 minutes more to BSF.
We have to ride a 1 mile road from our farm to the trails. Half mile chip, half mile stone. Not a big deal.
This is a great place to ride. For more info email or call

7/13/07

We looked at this for a ride site. Could do it. I am sure the camp area would be great. There is water in a creek. Would need a pump to get it out.

I think many riders would complain about the stone roads.  You can get off the stones and ride the shoulders. I am not sure there is enough wild water on the trails.

For now it looks like a lot of work and we are not really all that motivated to run rides again. :)

So we will just have fun and ride.

We may host  a pleasure ride later this year.

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Here are some GPS .gpx export files from my Garmin 301. They will run with SPORTTRACKS.

I am having a problem getting the files to download and run off the web page. I need to work on it, not sure how to do this

The file link tries to start the program SPORTRACKS but the program hangs. May have to use another GPS file reader/map program

Will get to this as soon as I can figure it out

07-13-07

Trail1  .gpx file  not working will not download

Trail1IMG    image file   this works

Trail2IMG       Trail3IMG    Trail4IMG   Trail5IMG   Trail6IMG