Michaux Ridge Road

Total Miles
10.1

Technical Rating

Easy

Best Time

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter

Trail Type

Full-Width Road

Accessible By

Trail Overview

Ridge Road is located in Michaux State Forest, Southeast of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. This is a pleasant and peaceful road that tours the northern half of the forest and includes views of the south and the Pinnacle Mountains. The road does cross Highway 233, but remains 95% gravel. Cell service is mostly spotty, so be sure to download offline maps.

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Difficulty

Ridge Road is an easy drive and very well maintained all year.

Technical Rating

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Trail is open and very easy. I’d say any vehicle aside from like a lowered sports car can do this trail. Be very careful if you’re on thin street tires though (punctures). The most off-road worthy thing you’ll do on this trail is move over for oncoming traffic a few times. The trail is extremely well maintained as of 11/28/2025. Maybe that’ll change after winter though.

Gravel road with some good views and hiking trails. If you get to the end and continue on ridge rd to mt holly springs it gets rutted in a few places with some shallow water holes and muddy spots.

more of a off-road- road used to gain access to camp ground spots, people also live up here so not uncommon to see a little bit of traffic, but this trail can be complete in 2wd for the most parts aside from the switch backs which tend to bank sharply and high angle. good trail and nice view at the top.