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CHATTANOOGA
The trails we actually run, with real distances, real climb, and the route file so you can put it on your watch before you leave the house.
10 spots · 8 areas · Kept current by Bad Beard Events
- Chickamauga LakeTrail
Booker T. Washington State Park
Chattanooga's first purpose-built mountain bike trail, on the lake — a rooty 3.8-mile outer loop.
3.8 mi · 448 ft · LoopModerate - East BrainerdTrail
Enterprise South Nature Park
Ten miles of hiking trail with no bikes allowed, on soft mulch, in an old munitions plant.
4.9 mi · 429 ft · LoopEasy - HixsonTrail
Greenway Farm
A flat 2-mile loop on North Chickamauga Creek in Hixson, with a fenced off-leash dog park.
2 mi · 72 ft · Trail networkEasy - Lookout MountainTrail
Guild Trail
The old incline grade from St. Elmo up Lookout Mountain — five miles of steady, runnable climb.
5.4 mi · 666 ft · Out and backModerate - Lookout MountainViewpoint
Sunset Rock
A bluff ledge over the Tennessee River valley, reached by 3.2 miles of climbing from Cravens House.
3.2 mi · 469 ft · Out and backModerate - North ShoreTrail
Stringer's Ridge
Seven miles of shaded single-track ten minutes from downtown Chattanooga, with an overlook straight down the Tennessee River.
3.7 mi · 531 ft · Trail networkModerate - Prentice-CooperTrail
Mullens Cove Loop
The 9.8-mile gorge-rim loop in Prentice-Cooper where Bad Beard runs River Gorge every November.
9.8 mi · 1,700 ft · LoopHard - Raccoon MountainTrail
Raccoon Mountain
28 miles of single-track around a TVA reservoir, including a 14-mile loop with real climbing.
14.2 mi · 1,450 ft · LoopHard - Signal MountainTrail
Rainbow Lake
A 2.3-mile loop on Signal Mountain to a 1916 dam, a waterfall and the swimming hole below it.
2.3 mi · LoopEasy - Signal MountainTrail
Signal Point to Edwards Point
Bluff-edge Cumberland Trail above the Tennessee River Gorge, 5.1 miles out and back from Signal Point.
5.1 mi · Out and backModerate
RACE COURSES
Our courses are open ground the other 364 days a year. Every one has the route file and the elevation profile on its own page.
- STILLHOUSE 100KThe big one.58 mi · 13,150 ft
- STUMP JUMPSignal Mountain single-track with jaw-dropping Tennessee River Gorge views.31.2 mi · 7,100 ft
- RABID RACCOONMid-winter mountain miles on Raccoon Mountain.15 mi · 2,200 ft
- RIVER GORGEBluff views, single track, and the Tennessee River.9.7 mi · 1,800 ft
- THE CANNONBALL RUNThe friendliest little Last Man Standing suffer-fest you'll ever sign up for.3.9 mi · 350 ft
- OLI KAIRun the loop. Stack the laps.2.1 mi · 150 ft