Explore the best rated trails in Oak Ridge, TN, whether you're looking for an easy walking trail or a bike trail like the Eureka Trail and Emory Valley Greenway . With more than 23 trails covering 109 miles you're bound to find a perfect trail for you. Click on any trail below to find trail descriptions, trail maps, photos, and reviews.
If you’re in the Smokies and riding Cades Cove pretty hard to pass up an opportunity to ride this trail. You can park at the Townsend visitor center. Lots of variety on this trail.
Went to Maryville and walked probably 1.5 miles of the trail. It was very clean and easy. The kids loved it!
This is a lovely ride, mostly adjacent to the water with many shaded places to stop and appreciate the views and sounds of nature. Much of the trail is gravel (enough to be bumpy), and the dirt surfaces would be very muddy after a rain. There are a few inclines that we easily managed with our e-bikes, and while there were a lot of walkers, we had no issues sharing the space. You won’t want to ride fast anyway - it’s worth taking it slow to appreciate the setting!
Rode the trail this morning. It is a little confusing as it has several small trails, branching off to dead ends. The trail was well maintained the bridges were nice. The traffic was light. I’m sure I’ll be returning.
Nicely maintained, very shady. Straight and little to no grade. Makes for a peaceful easy bike ride.
Very peaceful trail with an occasional visit by deer & turkeys. A really peaceful walk.
The trail is really nice, it just needs to be 2 or 3 times longer. Listed on TrailLink as 7.3 miles, but posted with markers as 5.6.
Overall nice trail. Some bumps with tree roots through the blacktop and some patch jobs.
Very nice trail, minimal parking, but meant more for walking. Very busy with walkers.
The map is not very understandable if u r not local. Use Apple maps to locate the actual trail head. This gave us an address that was a super short preserve trail and AllTrails did the same. So load and inload the ebikes on a 93 degree day with no shade was not fun. Finally found the trailhead. I use a dog trailer for my pup so I do not like street riding and had no real idea where to go but went both directions from the park, each way until it was all urban, next to a busy street one way and a lovely neighborhood the other way but to hot to ride too far out of the shade. With the dog, just looking for long shady paths. Would have like to explore mire. Maybe next time in the fall.
The Townsend trail is all paved, wide enough for 2 bikes to pass each other. I take my dog in a trailer behind my ebike. The trail is on both sides of the road. The one on the right side is further away from the road and more hilly. The one on the left side has more road noise, once u get away from the river. It is the side with all the businesses on it so lots for driveway bumps. You can connect to the other side by 2 different bike tunnels so u don’t have to cross the road. We rode on a Thursday so traffic was so so but enough to make up want to ride the other side. Not a very interesting trail but nice enough.
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