Bald Knob

Beginning of the trail from the north is a paved/gravel road leading through hunting grounds. A couple miles in the trail leads into an abandoned mining operation and solar farm. The last 4/5 miles becomes a 7/10 with the end of the trail being extremely washed out. There is a go-around that has been however is off the traditional trail. Very scenic route.

Gravel Road until you get to the south end of the trail. South side is more of a 7/10 with the trail becoming washed out. Saw other people out but did not speak with them. Not from the area but seems to be an abandoned mining operation.

This is private property owned by Weyerhauser and leased to hunting club members. Do not traverse.

If you enter from shaders crossing you turn right on to bald knob road/trail go 1.76 miles and turn right if you stay on the 2 track at 2.06 miles the road is washed out. The “bypass” with put you back on the bald knob road/trail at roughly the 4 mile mark if you start the tripometer when you turn right on to bald knob after going through shafers crossing.

Apparently the gate at the southern entrance gets randomly closed because it was open this day. I took the logging access (public) road to bypass the gate based on previous reports. It follows little clear creek for several miles and allows you to enter the trail past the southern gate. If the northern section is open you can enter and exit using this road. It is wide enough for vehicles to pass safely and is a well maintained gravel road. Great views near Cross Mountain.

My buddies and I came in from the north side and cleared all the down trees that were across the trail a few miles from the south entrance. The gate at the south entrance is still closed and locked.

Started from south end off from hwy 64 and got 2 to 3 miles in following the onx mapping and found a huge tree down at the Y in the trail.... Left being just an over look and right being the trail according to onx and its blocked

The Trail is sort of open but closed as presented/ But not as ONX shows on Map. I entered at the Richwood end and got to past the turn at Hickory Ridge to find trees down blocking the rest of the trail. Since the end of the trial shows it connects Little Clear Creek, I was then able to turn around and go back and turn on to an earlier connection point Little Clear Creek before cross mountain and get back onto pavement. As I passed the ONX exit point I could see a gate blocking off the ONX route from the road. The trail provides some views of creeks streams, mining, windmills, and wild turkeys.

Made it about ten miles in from the south side only to find the trail closed before it intersects with the Nettle to Richmond trail but up to that point it’s passable and quite the fun trail. A little bit of a challenge early of but fun and smooth after that.

Great day with the family out in the bronco

it turns out this is not actual public land and it is leased private land, we got stopped by land owners in a side by side

Really cool trail. Lots to see and discover. Use Go and Track cuz it's easy to go off the main trail. You can spend all day out there. Have fun!