William Hastie Natural Area
Knoxville, Tennessee
Address: | ~1308 Margaret Rd, Knoxville, TN 37920, USA |
GPS: |
35°56'4.8"N 83°52'28.3"W Maps | Directions |
State: | Tennessee |
Trail Length: | 4.00 miles |
MTB Difficulty: | Intermediate |
Trail Type: | Network |
MTB Trail Type: | Singletrack |
Mountain Bike
The William Hastie Natural Area is a small park featuring a little bit of everything. The Sink Hole trail offers some more "techy" stuff with bridges, rocks, and mud. The View Park Trail offers some steepish climbs with large rocks to navigate, but also the occasional rhythm section; a real holistic trail. The Yellow Jacket (starting from the West) begins with a nice, almost pump-trail type section for a long stretch which allows you to get some speed and zone in. However, shortly you'll find yourself on the Hard Labor Trail, which to me was just like it sounds. You'll be rewarded for the uphill switchbacks and hard climbing in the end, but it seems a good haul up the mountain in the beginning. Running up the gut of the entire system is the Margaret Trail, which is a "flat" gravel path that offers access to most all of the trails. A short downhill (or uphill, if you choose the wrong way like I did) trail is the Rock Ledge trail (at least, I hope that's the name of it... correct me if I'm wrong. I don't spend a lot of time on this one). The route I like to take best is to hit Margaret Trail up to Sink Hole trail in order to hit a boarded jump over a split rock without having to double back (you can bypass it). This will land you back in the parking lot. I then liked taking View Point Trail, taking some time to mess around on the "log jump obstacle", before connecting with Yellow Jacket and eventually the Hard Labor Trail, finally bombing down Margaret Road back to the trailheads (or Sinkhole again, if you aren't too worn out!). (I hope I'm not stepping out of line by posting this. These trails we're made before I arrived here by the Appalachian Mountain Biking Club!) Courtesy of Singletracks.com
More Information
Never modify trail features. Ride trails when they're dry enough that you won't leave ruts. Speak up when you see others on the trail and always yield to hikers, horses, and others coming uphill. Always ride on the established trail.
Read MoreDirections
From Knoxville, Tennessee
- Head northwest on Henley St toward Cumberland Ave (0.2 mi)
- Merge onto I-40 E via the ramp to Asheville (0.9 mi)
- Take exit 388A for James White Parkway (0.3 mi)
- Continue onto TN-158 W (0.4 mi)
- Keep left to continue on James White Pkwy (2.7 mi)
- Turn left onto Sevierville Pike (signs for Sevierville) (2.0 mi)
- Turn right onto Margaret Rd (0.3 mi)
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