Gold Mine Road (Willis Knob)

Total Miles
5.5

Technical Rating

Moderate

Best Time

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter

Trail Type

Full-Width Road

Accessible By

Trail Overview

The trail starts out as a gravel one to two-lane road. Once you get in a few miles, it becomes a very overgrown, narrow at times, dirt road with several areas of mud and obstacles. The trail dead ends, so be prepared to backtrack everything you go through. It has a few side roads, one being an old cemetery from the early 1900s (or older).

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Difficulty

Trail is very narrow in places so expect limb scratches. A few areas are washed out and may require 4WD if the weather is right.

Technical Rating

Status Reports

Pretty easy trail up to the halfway point, where a tree was blocking the trail. We could have made it that far in my wife’s Subaru Forester. Beautiful country though. Saw a few deer.

Not sure who rated this trail as moderate but it was pretty boring. A Prius could do it. Light pinstriping, cool old cemetery at the end.

I was there on 10/17/24. The trail is no longer as described. "They" must have come through and flattened all the berms, ruts, and holes. The trail is now gravel all the way to the graveyard (end of trail). There were very few obstacles. I believe a front wheel drive car could now make it to the end (by driving around some small obstacles). I was really excited to hit this trail after seeing the original pictures but left feeling pretty disappointed. I didn't take any pictures because it was just a gravel road but I may be able to pull some screenshots off of my dash cam. Note: There was a giant pile of gravel in a clearing near the entrance of the trail. There was also evidence of them cutting A LOT of trees that had fallen across the trail from Hurricane Helene. I'm wondering if maybe they took a Bobcat & made "repairs" & added gravel at the same time they cleared the road of trees.