Off-Road Trails in North Carolina

Forest roads branching off the Blue Ridge Parkway through the ancient Appalachian Mountains. Sweeping views of blue-haze ridgelines, rhododendron tunnels, and hidden waterfalls.

The largest national forest in North Carolina with technical mountain trails, misty waterfalls, and deep gorges. 'Nantahala' means 'land of the noonday sun', only the gorge bottoms see direct sunlight at midday.

Forest roads through the 'Land of Waterfalls' in the Pisgah and Nantahala forests. Over 250 waterfalls within driving distance of Brevard, with forest service roads accessing the most remote cascades and mountain swimming holes.

East Coast's premier OHV destination with 20+ miles of trails through hardwood forest.

Technical single-track and forest roads in the Pisgah National Forest. Famous for the unexplained Brown Mountain Lights, mysterious orbs seen above the ridgeline for centuries.

500,000 acres of diverse Appalachian forest with rushing mountain streams, rhododendron-lined roads, and access to some of the highest peaks east of the Mississippi.

Forest roads through some of the oldest mountains in the world with dense rhododendron tunnels, cascading waterfalls, and the Blue Ridge Parkway weaving along the ridgeline. The artistic mountain town of Asheville is the perfect basecamp.

East Coast beach wheeling at its finest. Drive miles of pristine Atlantic coastline at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, where the fishing is legendary and the solitude is real.

One of the oldest mountain ranges on Earth, now worn to rolling piedmont hills. Red clay trails through pine and hardwood forest in central North Carolina's ancient Uwharrie Mountains.

Coastal plain forest between the Neuse River and the Atlantic Ocean. Sandy trails through longleaf pine savanna, pocosins, and swamp habitat, unlike any other forest on the East Coast.