Hiking route
Sheltowee Trace National Recreation Trail
436.9 km· ↗ 6175 m· Regional route
The trail is in Kentucky. A 437 km point-to-point route: the finish is not where you started. Total ascent is about 6175 m. Elevations along the way range from 196 to 480 m.
This description is assembled from OpenStreetMap data and our own terrain calculation.
Surface
- dirt — 161.8 km (37%)
- gravel — 28.9 km (7%)
- unpaved — 11.6 km (3%)
- paved — 5.2 km (1%)
- asphalt — 3 km (1%)
- not recorded — 232.3 km (52%)
Surface data comes from OpenStreetMap tags on the route's ways.
Who is allowed
- MTB difficulty: S4
- Trail class: 3 — developed
The OpenStreetMap mtb:scale, where 0 is an easy path and 6 is barely rideable. The route shows its HARDEST section.
Trail class comes from the US Forest Service: 1 is a barely visible path, 5 is a fully developed walkway.
Trail geometry and data come from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Check them on the ground: waymarking can go out of date.