Near Sugar Run Trail #1025 (aka Deathstar)
Looking downhill along ridge.
Near Sugar Run Trail #1025 (aka Deathstar)
Looking east towards Shenandoah Mountain as the trail climbs.

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Sugar Run Trail #1025 (aka Deathstar)

5.0 (2 Ratings)
A rather un-groomed GWNF trail.
4.1
mi
Distance
82
ft
Gain
extreme
Difficulty
BirdingFall ColorsViewsWildlife
Access Issues
Neither end of this trail is easily accessed with standard vehicles. On the eastern, ridge-top end, parking is available via a rough road ascending toward Bother Knob from the Briery Branch Road. Then walk 0.8 miles on a rough Jeep Road to the trail. (There is no space to park here even if you have a Jeep.) On the western, valley end, parking is via a road surrounded by private property (and "No Trespassing" signs) that first requires a stream ford.

Route Details

Flatter
Steeper
4.13mi
Distance
82ft
Elevation Gain
2,314ft
Elevation Loss
30%
Max Grade
4,112ft
High Point
1,880ft
Low Point
Path Type
Point to Point
Description
The Sugar Run Trail is one of several trails in this area that steeply climb Shenandoah Mountain in the Flagpole Knob area. From the east, the trail is accessed via a rough Jeep road, with the trailhead only several hundred yards from the Bother Ridge Trail #1026. The Sugar Run Trail starts out as an old woods road for a short distance, until it reaches a spring and ends. After that, singletrack trail continues, first along a ridge, and then dropping steeply down the ridge until it switches back and descends to a stream called Sugar Run. There, the trail follows another old, unused woods road. After crossing another woods road and several stream crossings, the trail ends at WV Rt 24.

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Contributors
Mike Miriello