Vinton County Tunnels Tour Part 1

Generally an easy course. A lot of main roads, but the start in to the trail has some nice little scenes. Cool little photos spots. No issues during this. Extremely easily done in RWD.

Rather boring drive but would be beautiful in the fall. 2wd on gravel sections. Lots of paved road but scenic in nature. Anyone can drive this with any vehicle.

Great trail with dirt and gravel sections as well as paved sections. Beautiful scenery. Easy trail for entry level drivers.

large tree down about 1/4 of the way in.

Several trees are down. All were passable by going off road and around them, except for the one. It’s large and lays across the road on a hill side. So no way to avoid it. The rest of the trail had a lot of tree branch debris downed from the remnants of hurricane Helene that came through a day ago. I never did see the tunnel that someone else posted a photo of on here. I took the road around to the other side of the downed tree and entered from that direction. Still no tunnel. The picture of the map shows where I was and the direction I was heading when I encountered the downed tree.

The trail was open hot and dusty the leaves are already changing it was a beautiful drive

The road is closed just after the State Route 328 intersection from what looked like a bridge replacement, which forced us to turn around and abandon the remaining loop. Unknown, to me when it may be re-opened.

Recent maintenance, smooth. Dry, dusty. Good cruise with family from out of town.