Texas Hill Country Trail

[Gangly]

Being in Texas, there isn't a lot of great trails to ride since darn near everything is private land. However, a group of people put together a "Texas Hill Country Trail" that takes a good day or so to drive, depending on your travel speed, with multiple water crossings that can be very scenic and fun to traverse. I broke the drive up into 2 legs since I didn't have time to do the entire route in one trip, doing one leg of the route on my way out to a work site and the other leg of the route on my way back from another work site. Its not a hard route by any means and I only used 4WD twice that I remember, both times because I pulled over and parked in a makeshift ditch to take pictures. Had I stayed on the roadway surface(dirt/rock), I probably never would have needed 4WD. Each leg took about 4 hours when driving at a very comfortable pace with multiple 5 minute stops spread out along the way. I'll attach a GPX file to this thread so anyone who has interest in the route can take a look at it before hand.
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[jwflores]

Friend who has Jeep says there are some good trails around Big Bend State Park. She is going there this summer with some others and suppossed to bring me the maps for future visit in my TB.

 

[Gangly]

Post them up if you can. Big bend has a lot of good trails from what I have been told, but its a LOOOONG drive for me so I haven't made the trip.

 

[Grant]

https://offroadingpro.com/category/trails/ here's a site that has listings in Texas among others

 

[Gangly]

That's awesome, thanks Grant!

 

[Boss]

Sounds like a lot of fun! Thanks for sharing photos and details of your trip. I'm hoping to do this trail soon!

 

[vezePilot]

Great Pics! Sorry to hear that such a large State has so few trails. Here's another site that catalogs off road trails.

Offroad Maps - Trails Offroad Trail Finder

Find detailed offroad trail guides near you! Explore the map and find 1000s of technical guides, pictures, videos and more.

www.trailsoffroad.com

There are a few trails up toward Shreveport, about 220 miles from Houston.

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[Gangly]

Barnwell Mountain is a nice recreation area with a small fee to access. You can go mild to wild there, and its a great place to get an off road driving fix.

 

[PHXPHOTOG]

Great Pics! Sorry to hear that such a large State has so few trails. Here's another site that catalogs off road trails.

Offroad Maps - Trails Offroad Trail Finder

Find detailed offroad trail guides near you! Explore the map and find 1000s of technical guides, pictures, videos and more.

www.trailsoffroad.com

There are a few trails up toward Shreveport, about 220 miles from Houston.

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Trailsoffroad.com is awesome. You can search it to see whats in the area your interested in to find trails. If your really interested you can pay an all access annual fee. I generally avoid subscription BS but this one is worth it for me, I use it. View attachment 5303