Fenwick Mines

Total Miles
6.3

Elevation

1,077.39 ft

Duration

Technical Rating

Easy

Best Time

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter

Trail Overview

Near the town of New Castle, VA, are the remnants of many small mining towns. This route passes by the Fenwick Mines area, which has a small recreation day-use area and hiking trails. The route runs along the top of a ridgeline with sweeping east and west views of the area. The surface is mostly natural rock with many mud holes of varying depth. There are a few dispersed camping areas along the route. The area is crisscrossed by other forestry routes leading to other abandoned mining areas. Cell service in the area is very spotty.

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Difficulty

Mostly natural rocky / dirt surface with varying depth mud / water holes.

Technical Rating

Status Reports

Not a difficult trail. Seen a stock economy van come up the trail. Great views, really rocky, had one of our guys puncture a tire on a rock. But other than that great trail. Just make sure u have a good spare.

Ride this trail many times and it never gets old to drive though it. Road is closed at forest road 180(Lignite road) on the Oriskany side and Barbours Creek side. Have to turn around and either come back the same way you come in or what we did is take bald knob down to Peaceful Valley Road. Very nice drive and plenty of mud. Beware of some of the mud on the edges of the road, they may look shallow but one of them is far from it! Last two pictures of my jeep stuck were from May this year.

First time here. Cool trail, great view. The road does dead end though. Both roads at the end were closer. Had to trek all the way back. Kinda disappointed.

Drove this today in light rain. The trail was open all the way to the 'Y' split where 180 branches off to the left and and an unnamed trail to the right. Both of those were gated but this was after 6.4 miles of trail (from the Fenwick Mines Campground), which I believe is the full length. 3-4 car-length long mud puddle in the last mile of the trail was 4-5" deep.

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