Off-Road Adventure : Exploring Lower Shoe Creek Trail, Tyro Virginia
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- Опубликовано: 12 янв 2025
- After spending the day at overland expo east 2021, I decided to run up to the shoe creek trail head for the 1.25 mile climb up the mtn to the gate. This trail is easy to moderate with three water crossings, high clearance and oversized tires will help, it is narrow and somewhat overgrown, the trail is pretty solid with a rock base but slippery in spots. There are four public first come first serve camping areas right on the creek. Great trail to combine with some other in the area.
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Love tubing down Piney River after a nice rain storm from Crabtree falls. Usually down to massey mills. Awesome. With Lawhorn Family.
Excellent
I haven't been to Shoe Creek in 5 or 6 years. It was a great place to go before they closed off that section.
@Defiant Offroad we just did the upper half this past weekend, both sides totally different, camping is great on either end, i bet the mile or so that is closed off is pretty cool
@@FischerJeepAdventures could someone blaze a trail around the private property to reconnect the two?
Matt, I don’t think so the two pieces of forest lands are cut in half by the private property owner so there is really no way to get around it and the terrain especially coming from the lower side is such there is no other way to go, as it basically climbs up beside the creek as it falls pretty spectacularly from elevation through the rocks. Truly a shame though as I have heard the section that is now blocked off is really cool
2000 Silverado crew cab long bed 3/4 ton with only a level lift and 265's nothing special pulling a cement mixer and 10 80 # bags of motor mix in the back Went up that mountain past the gate all the way to the cabin repairing the chimney. No big deal Nice drive Little tight for a long bed crew cab but I made it so can you
Awesome, I am guessing thats the property owners who keep the upper and lower gates locked, is the trail up to the cabin as nice as I have heard it is?
@@FischerJeepAdventures this was 5 years ago, i'd live there.
Cool!
Have you been to Crabtree Falls on 56 West?
Yes we usually go up there each fall to climb the falls when the leaves are turning
Have you been to Little Piney?
I have not, where is that trail? We are planning on doing big levels in the next couple weeks is it close by there?
@@FischerJeepAdventures It is in that general area. I don’t drive it. My family drives. I remember us getting stuck and 4 of us got out to push.
I have relatives that live in Piney River. It separates Amherst and Nelson County. That is a beautiful area. What type of Jeep do you have?
@@piedmontpengwing cool we will check around next time we are up that way, i have a jeep jlu rubicon on 35’s
Many years ago I remember camping and driving through this trail which takes you to the upper crab tree falls parking area, if you where allowed to go there. Camping is no longer permitted anymore in that lower section (or at least 300 ft from the center line of the trail, which are those former camp sites you pointed out). You can still camp above the Appalachian trail, which is on the other side of that private property you can't pass through anymore. There are some first come first serve primitive camping sites off of Meadow Rd (which is what the upper section of the trail turns into on the other side of the private property) some of which will probably need a 4x4 to access. You can access Meadow rd from Rt 56. Here is the forest service order for no camping on the trail which started on Oct 27 2017: www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5440375.pdf
Thanks for the update! It looks like the order expires in october of this year, 2022 so unless they re-write it those restrictions it appears late this fall you can legally camp there again. as to the upper section, i did a video on it as well and aside from a large rock at the entrance to the trail as long as its dry I think its easy to navigate as long as you have some ground clearance
@@FischerJeepAdventures We were there on 10/30/22 and the no camping signs were still in place but maybe It's just the forest service being a little slow or maybe they just open up on 11/1. The camp sites we looked at were clean and they looked like they were ready to just pull in and use. Such a shame the upper and lower ends are blocked by the Private property gates.
Well nothing moves quickly in government thats for sure, and your right it is a shame is blocked off and those camp sites along the creek would be great to spend the night next to. Hopefully the fall colors were still bright when you were there!
@@FischerJeepAdventures If the gate is on USFS land that landowner would be violating federal law. I assume someone has checked on that, but people get weird with gates on forest service land if it leads to their property. Not that I would ever suggest people ignore forest service signs, but there is rarely anyone out there to enforce anything.
@overhead18, you are absolutely correct, I did check the land platte and the landowners property is clearly marked on the map and the gates sit right on his property line, so much of the usfs land incorporates chunks of private property, that its hard to tell sometimes where boundary lines are sometimes especially when you are on a forrest service road that is flanked by private property and your trying to find a campsite thats not infringing on a property owners rights, back to shoe creek, I know the trail was open all the way many years ago and I can only assume its closed on the private property due to trash being left and offroaders not sticking to the legitimate trail and going off onto their land making trails of their own ignoring the fact that those actions would ruin the trail access for all those who would come after, its a shame really!