Miners Memorial (Big Muskie Bucket) across Dakota Plains - Junkyardtown

Total Miles 5.4
Technical Rating
1 Easy
Best Time Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter
Trail Type Full-Width Road
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Trail Overview

I started at the Big Musky Bucket in the Miners Memorial AEP Picnic area across the main road to a beautiful ridge line backroad with amazing expansive open views that remind me of traveling to the significant plains areas. The road is high-speed gravel and very wide and passes a civil war cemetery just before it dives down into the treeline and twists and turns through the AEP Recreational areas. There are plenty of hiking trails and ponds that are public fishing. This route ends at a town owned by one family, and it appears to be an open-airr private salvage yard as you head south and cross an old steel bridge over Meigs Creek.

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Difficulty

smooth elevation changes and high speed gravel

History

this is old AEP coal lands that have been reclaimed. Buckeye hiking trail runs thru the area.

Technical Rating

1

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Zachary Schroll
Aug 31, 2025
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Easy road that twist and turns. Gorgeous views of range lands. There’s a small cemetery along this route with some very old gravesites. Any 2wd vehicle could do this

Miners Memorial (Big Muskie Bucket) across Dakota Plains - Junkyardtown Trail can be accessed by the following ride types:

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