Where to Run · Tennessee
Windrock Park
The largest private OHV park in the country, roughly 73,000 acres and 300-plus miles of trail above Oliver Springs. Trail 15/16 and Ivy Gap are the well-known full-size routes through Appalachian shelf rock, mud, and elevation that regular desert riders never see. Permit required at the gate.
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Air down
- 18-22 psi
- Season
- Year-round
- Mapped trail
- 218 mi
- Elevation
- 1,045 ft
Trail map & conditions
218 miles of motorized routes within twelve kilometres of the anchor point, drawn from OpenStreetMap. Green lines are the network; zoom for detail.
Drive to
Windrock Park Main Gate
921 Windrock Rd, Oliver Springs, TN 37840
- Search in your maps app
- “Windrock Park”
- GPS (entry)
- 36.08454, -84.33112
Trail permit/day-pass required at the gate; open 8:00am-6:00pm daily.
Entry info: windrockpark.com
The rules of this place
Shelf rock breaks up traction differently than western granite; cell coverage disappears in the hollows, so tell someone your route before you drop in.
Also worth the trailer miles
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Moab
Slickrock and ledge country. Fins & Things and Hell's Revenge are doable in a full-size on 35s if you pick your line; Poison Spider, Top of the World, and Gemini Bridges are fine on the easier bypasses. Pritchett Canyon and the tightest slots on Hell's Revenge are not — a Raptor is too wide and the recovery bill is real.