Beginner Off-Road Trails
Near Waldo, Alabama

Experience Alabama in one easy trail. USFSR #637 is a winding gravel road that passes through the foothills of Cheaha State Park with a plethora of creek crossings, all the while presenting you with the mountainside filled with a mixture of mature hardwoods and pines. This trail will also exemplify ...
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This is a trailhead leading from the campground to the main park. It is to help keep the offroad vehicle traffic away from the front office. It is a very short route that also has a bathroom located on the trail, and brings you out to the main grid to start trailing.
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This is the entrance to the park. You will go through a gate to enter, and park on the designated parking spots on the left or right side of the road before you walk into the main building to sign the waiver and register you and your vehicle. There are restrooms, as well as showers, ($3 fee for show...
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This is the main road from the front entrance to the back of the grid. The trail connects to trail 18, and Trail 19 intersects at the halfway point. On this road you will come across the south parking lot first, and then the north parking lot at the end. At the midway point, you will also find the f...
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This trail is an old railroad bed from when the park was a military base. This railroad was used for years delivering and shipping goods to the base. There are four old loading docks along the route, as well as some original rails at some intersections. This is a fun trail to take you around the ver...
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This main road houses several rental camp spots and rented bunkers along its path. It connects the front of the park, Trail 20, to the back of the grid, Trail 18. It also intersects with Trail 19 at around the midway point.
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This main road houses several rental camp spots and rented bunkers along its path. It connects the front of the park, trail 20, to the back of the grid, trail 18. It also intersects with Trail 19 at around the midway point.
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This is a main road that connects all of the main grid from the south end of the park at the main entrance side. This connects both sides of Trail 18. It is a smooth road that is part gravel and part dirt. This is the route you take when driving to a bunker or parking lot. The speed limit is 15 and ...
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Very good trail for a novice driver. The trail had a lot of mud holes, with options to go around, and at the time of year this was recorded, (Fall), it was quite dry and easy to get through the mud hole areas. The trail did have a good-sized hill climb to go up as well, which was not difficult and v...
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This is a short trail in the main grid with two rental bunkers located on it. It connects Trail 20, up a little into Trail 16. The trail also continues to an old exit to the base when it was active. It is closed off now and overgrown, but it does have several mud hole obstacles located on it.
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This main road houses several rental camp spots and rented bunkers along its path. It connects the front of the park, Trail 20, to the back of the grid, Trail 18. It also intersects with Trail 19 at around the midway point.
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This trail starts as a gravel road and quickly transitions to dirt, winding through pine trees and crossing several mud holes. There are a couple of rutted sections that can become slick when wet. The route ends at an old cemetery with graves dating back to the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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This main road houses several rental camp spots and rented bunkers along its path. It connects the front of the park, Trail 20, to the back of the grid, Trail 18. It also intersects with Trail 19 at around the midway point.
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This main road houses several rental camp spots and rented bunkers along its path. It connects the front of the park, Trail 20, to the back of the grid, Trail 18. It also intersects with Trail 19 at around the midway point.
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This trail is mostly gravel and dirt road. The speed limit is 15 mph and is regulated by park security. This trail will take you from the main office to the left and right side of the grid. You will take this route to get to any of the rental bunkers, or campsites.
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This is a main road that goes around the whole outside of the grid. This trail connects you to all of the trails in the park. There is no difficulty on this route, but you do need to follow the speed limit posted, 15 miles per hour, because of safety and wild animals. There are a lot of intersection...
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Trail 48 is a muddy trail with a lot of mud holes along its route. There are also some small inclines and declines along the way. No super rough rock obstacles, mostly all mud obstacles with by-pass areas that are easier for the really deep mud holes. This path is all dirt and has several trails tha...
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Trail 22 was a fairly easy trail with multiple other trail crossings along the route. There was one good hill climb area around the middle part of the trail where Trail 57 intersects with it. Not anything that has to be completed, but it is an area to play on. Trail 22 has no mandatory hill climbs i...
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This is a main gravel road in the grid that connects trail 20 (the front of the grid), to the midway point of the railroad. Trail 19 intersects at the end of this trail. Bunkers/Rental spots located along route. Bunkers 9 A through 9 F are along this route. This is more of a quiet trail for camping.
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This main road houses two rental camp spots and rented bunkers along its path. It connects the front of the park, Trail 20, to Trail 18, which goes all the way around the grid. This trail also takes you to Clay Hill, and trail 31. This trail is more dirt than it is gravel, and only houses two bunker...
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This is a trailhead leading from the campground to the main park. It is to help keep the offroad vehicle traffic away from the front office. It is a very short route that also has a bathroom located on the trail, and brings you out to the main grid to start trailing.
Learn more about Trailhead from Campground

This is the entrance to the park. You will go through a gate to enter, and park on the designated parking spots on the left or right side of the road before you walk into the main building to sign the waiver and register you and your vehicle. There are restrooms, as well as showers, ($3 fee for show...
Learn more about Main Entrance / Environmental Center

This is the main road from the front entrance to the back of the grid. The trail connects to trail 18, and Trail 19 intersects at the halfway point. On this road you will come across the south parking lot first, and then the north parking lot at the end. At the midway point, you will also find the f...
Learn more about 12

This trail is an old railroad bed from when the park was a military base. This railroad was used for years delivering and shipping goods to the base. There are four old loading docks along the route, as well as some original rails at some intersections. This is a fun trail to take you around the ver...
Learn more about Old Railroad Bed

This is a trailhead leading from the campground to the main park. It is to help keep the offroad vehicle traffic away from the front office. It is a very short route that also has a bathroom located on the trail, and brings you out to the main grid to start trailing.
Learn more about Trailhead from Campground

This is the entrance to the park. You will go through a gate to enter, and park on the designated parking spots on the left or right side of the road before you walk into the main building to sign the waiver and register you and your vehicle. There are restrooms, as well as showers, ($3 fee for show...
Learn more about Main Entrance / Environmental Center

This is the main road from the front entrance to the back of the grid. The trail connects to trail 18, and Trail 19 intersects at the halfway point. On this road you will come across the south parking lot first, and then the north parking lot at the end. At the midway point, you will also find the f...
Learn more about 12

This trail is an old railroad bed from when the park was a military base. This railroad was used for years delivering and shipping goods to the base. There are four old loading docks along the route, as well as some original rails at some intersections. This is a fun trail to take you around the ver...
Learn more about Old Railroad Bed