The Tennessee Department of Tourist Development has unveiled 37 new routes across the state. The gravel trails will join an existing 52 road routes already in existence, opening up more than 1,800 miles of trails to explore.
Take a scroll through Bike Tennessee’s extensive list of routes all accessible by the Ride with GPS app, to see forest climbs to day-long mountain rides. Selecting at random, ‘The Big Sandy Out and Back Gravel Ride’ promises 32 miles (2,000 feet of climbing) of ‘tree tunnels, lake views, farm fields and punchy hills.’ Another search turns up the ‘Upper Sequatchie Valley Loop’, a 35 mile ride through the Sequatchie Valley, through the region’s ‘low-traffic roadways and historic agricultural landscape.’
