1A

Total Miles
4.8

Technical Rating

6

Moderate

Best Time

Spring, Fall, Summer

Trail Type

50" Trail

Accessible By

Trail Overview

Trail 1A is a difficult and narrow ATV trail open to vehicles 50" or less. The trail winds through a lush forest, crossing small creeks and constantly weaving against the mountainside, often with blind corners. The trail has big embedded rock layers, maintained cinderblock paths, deep ruts, fast and flowy sections, and waterbars. Riders will encounter several difficult rock obstacles throughout the route that require advanced skill and a capable vehicle. The first is a 15-foot-long layer of exposed bedrock spanning the entire width of the trail, uneven with a series of small ledges, with multiple lines to choose from. The rock is slabby and has good traction, but will still require a good line choice. Other obstacles throughout the route include more slabs of embedded rock, sometimes ramped, and sometimes blunt ledges, often between the trees, with split line choices between the trees, made more complicated by roots and ruts. Another is a rock crawling section with a three-foot rock ravine that ATVs will have to straddle. Sometimes there is a bypass around the obstacle, but not always. The trail has easier sections that are a break from the rock obstacles, sometimes fast like a turn track, and sometimes slower over lots of loose medium-sized rocks. There is a long, fun descent that keeps you on your toes where the trail is troughed below the forest floor with dirt walls on either side of the trail. It has big hairpin corners with rock slabs on the inside turn, and loose rutted hillclimbs with boulders and loose rocks, and shelves. This trail is indicated for one-way travel in a clockwise direction (east to west).

Photos of 1A

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Difficulty

This trail is constantly full of large rock boulder obstacles that would be pretty extreme for an ATV. They are large slabs of rock, often with gaps and off-camber slopes, up to 3 feet high.

Technical Rating

6

Status Reports

There are no status reports yet for this trail.

Access Description

Brown Mountain is an extremely busy OHV area in North Carolina's Pisgah National Forest. There is a large parking lot at the south end of the trail system on Brown Mountain Road, north of Brown Mountain Beach Road 1405. Most of the trails are directional, and are either 65" or 50" width allowance. All trails are marked. A $5 daily or $30 annual trail pass is required, which can be purchased from local vendors. The trails are open from April 1 to January 1.

1A Map

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