BIG SOUTH FORK MOUNTAIN BIKING

Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area is located about an hour north of Crossville, Tennessee and has some great mountain biking trails.  The National Park also has a campground with showers, a pool thats open in the summer, gift shop and Visitors Center and if you loop all the mountain bike trails together with some gravel roads you've got a 50+ mile ride.
 My favorite trails to ride there are the Grand Gap and John Muir trails.  I start at the visitors center and ride the gravel road out to Grand Gap then hook into John Muir and ride the gravel roads back, which makes for about 21 miles.  These trails have several spots that run right along the bluff tops and offer spectacular views of the Big South Fork River Gorge.  Make a note that Grand Gap and John Muir trails are officially only open to bike riding during weekdays.

Click here to download the map of the trails.