How about these?

[Gonzowerke]

Does anyone know of these, and if they are open? If not, I may make a recon run to see if they are posted.....might be a new oppurtunity to make some good PR with a trail clean-up or something....

All are from 4X4trails.net;

The Jeep Trail/The Stacks

Access: From Salem Virginia, take Thomspon Memorial Drive to Hanging Rock and turn right onto Rt. 311. Drive Approximately 25 miles ( Through Roanoke County and Into Craig County ). You will go through the town of New Castle, from C&M Grocery, at the intersection of 311 and Main Street, you will go approximately 5 miles to Peters Hill. There is a worn out sign that is easy to miss on the right side of the rode that says JEEP TRAIL. Turn left here.

Trail: The trail starts off gentle and has a couple of ups and downs ( this is how it became known as the stacks ), then it gets into a lot of ruts and large rocks. I advise small framed vehicles, and definately no pickup trucks.

G.P.S. Coordinate List:
No Extended G.P.S. data for this trail is available.


Kepbart Run

Access: From Washington,D.C. take 66 West to 81 South. Take 81 South to Harrisonburg. At Harrisonburg take 33 west. About 15-16 miles west of Harrisonburg, 3.5 miles past Second Mountain Trail FR 502, is Kepbart Run Trail off to the right. There is no sign. The trail follows a creek marked on Delormes as Kepbart Run D:3.

Trail: The trail follows Kepbart Run creek for about 4 miles. It is fairly bumpy with 4wd required most of the way but very accessible to stock vehicles. I did it with a stock Suzuki Sidekick. The trail crosses the creek very early on. The crossing required some mild rock stacking. Mild rock stacking was required at one or two other places on the trail. The trail is marked by many scenic views of the creek the whole way. At one point there is a fallen oak tree, VERY LARGE, which you must drive under. This is an excellent spot for a photograph of the driver sitting on the fallen tree trunk suspended over his/her vehicle. There are one or two small trails shooting off on the right which dead ended at the banks of the creek. There was a rocky ditch, possibly a dried creek crossing, somewhere past the three mile point. I could not cross this in my stock Suzuki. A more agressive vehicle would be able to do so. The map indicates that the trail dead ends in the forest about a mile past the ditch I just described. Overall a very enjoyable, albeit short, trail which is close to Second Mountain trail.

G.P.S. Coordinate List:
No Extended G.P.S. data for this trail is available.


And lastly, this one right in our backyard, behind Montclair. I may have to go check it out tomorrow. I don't know how old this is, so it may be all houses now.........

7 hills offroad area

Access: South from DC, on HWY 95 exit highway 234. Go over the bridge and turn in on the right behind the motel you'll see the entrace. If that is closed keep going west on 234 and turn right on country club dr. then an immediate right at the end of this road take a right on Cardinal Dr. ....Look for a gravel road on the right past some houses but before the Neighborhood go down the gravel road past the gate and just follow the trail to the area. There is also a back entrance on Route 1 north of 234, look for it in the trees past an apartment complex if your comming from 234 and turning north on Route 1.

Trail: Lots of mud and lots of trails to get lost on, oh and a river you can drive in and even follow under HWY 95 to another set of trails...

[unstable]

Kephart is closed I believe

[Gonzowerke]

The one in Dumfries is posted as well......but the nice officer who pulled in to question me about my presence there(no, I did not pass the posted limit!)
Told me that the motor officers who chase down atv's there say the property is owned by Hylton group. It is a longshot, but I'm going to try and find out if they do and if I can get permission.........

[Chele]

I camped on Kephart Run last year. It was open....then..... It's a trail that's about 2.5 miles long and runs parallel to Dry River. When the river is flowing, it makes a great place to camp (i.e. some cooling off in the ice cold river). You can call the ranger for the Dry River District if you need to double check for this year. I couldn't imagine them closing this one.

It is tank trapped at the VERY end, but there is a nice turn around spot where you can camp and very many shady/grassy areas to camp before that. There is even a small meadow that a large group of folks can camp on.

There is no challenge to this trail at all (unless Dry River is high...because there's a river crossing, but just one).

The only trail I know of that they close down off 33 is 2nd Mountain...it's gated by the Ranger.

[02tj]

It is tank trapped at the VERY end, but there is a nice turn around spot where you can camp and very many shady/grassy areas to camp before that. There is even a small meadow that a large group of folks can camp on.

thats dry river................. kepheart is closed and is on the other side of 33 from the "bath tub" ie tank trap. glad to see ya on the board chele!

[ToBlave]

I hiked Kephart early late Fall, early Winter. The trail itself doesn't look closed but the areas that made Kephart an exercise in skill are closed. The open field at the top of the rock garden is cabled off. You could still see the old tracks from the trail that cut through the field.

From the appearance of the bonfire pits and empty beer cans, this is party zone for the locals. I recall seeing a hill climb tucked back behind one of the bonfire areas but I could be thinking of the one torn up hill side after the reservoir on Dry River.

If you take the trail far enough back you hit a small camp site at an up hill right-hand dog leg. Camp site is actually the head to an old unmaintained trail (probably for logging). Take the dog leg up the hill and the trail narrows but is passable. A couple switchbacks later you are dumped out into a rock strewn roundabout. If you stand there long enough you can imagine the possibilities of where the original trail heads off but the overgrowth is doing a good job of hiding it.