Name: DuPont Ridgeline
Rating: 4.7

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Ridgline is one of the fastest, flowiest downhill rides in the area. This is a nice, quick 6-mile loop that finishes with a great downhill.

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Start at the Lake Imaging parking area and wind around to climb the Jim Branch Trail. This beautiful forested climb comes up to a saddle where you'll take a quick ride over the Isaac Heath trail and will dump you out on Buck Forest Road where you'll take a left.

The next right is Thomas Cemetery Road, where you'll follow this gravel road all the way until it changes over to White Pine Trail. At the top of White Pine, take a left on Hooker Creek Trail and get ready for a super-fast downhill that will leave you smiling. Then another quick climb where you'll catch Ridgeline to take a left and hang on.

The fast and flowy descent will take you through some berms, a log ride, and many fun dips and corners. Watch out for horse poop on the trail though!

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Local Club: Pisgah Area SORBA

Land Manager: North Carolina Forest Service - Dupont State Forest

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Logan Watts with improvements by Bryan Glover and 1 other

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4.7 from 222 votes

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in DuPont State Forest

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4.7 from 222 votes

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Ridgeline - DuPont State Forest - Cedar Mountain, NC

Aug 24, 2017 near Etowah, NC

Jun 13, 2013 near Etowah, NC

May 14, 2014 near Etowah, NC

Worked for the downhill but it was totally worth it.

Aug 5, 2020 near Etowah, NC

Dupont - Ridgeline Trail - Brevard North Carolina MTB

Mar 8, 2021 near Etowah, NC

Rode a little over 7 miles before hitting the final descent, definitely worth it.

Nov 11, 2022 near Etowah, NC

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Check-Ins

Sep 14, 2024

Bennett Bennett

Hit it w Justin first time to DuPont

Jun 1, 2024

Byron McCaughey

I re W

Feb 28, 2024

Joshua H

Dec 23, 2023

Mary Crowe

Oct 29, 2023

Private User

Sep 22, 2023

Jessica Radich

6.3mi — 1h 13m

Jul 15, 2023

Jason Miller

Jun 27, 2023

Jon Naylor

May 13, 2023

Caille Jimenez

Apr 11, 2023

Bennett Bennett

Rodé w andy one day gab and moreno crew next day and gab son Danny took

Sep 29, 2022

Jim McKee

Sep 25, 2022

Jeff Richardson

6.6mi — 0h 56m

Sep 3, 2022

Kendyl Brown

1h 24m

Sep 1, 2022

Connor Gallogly

Aug 19, 2022

Carter Leigh

Jul 22, 2022

Private User

Jun 16, 2022

Alex Turman

Jun 11, 2022

Michael Santana

Jun 9, 2022

Dennis Short

6.3mi

May 30, 2022

Jeff Cody

May 18, 2022

Josh Macfarland

6.3mi — 2h 00m

May 14, 2022

Daniel Hurtado

9.4mi — 2h 03m

May 8, 2022

Jason Brown

May 7, 2022

Borislav Borojević

Apr 10, 2022

Kellog K

Rode Ridgeline and a loop towards the start of ridgeline. Super fun fast flow technical trail. I enjoyed my time in Dupont. lots more to do. parkin… 8.5mi

Apr 6, 2022

Russell H

Feb 20, 2022

Russ Gowan

cool dry mostly and a new bike! what more could you ask for... 8.9mi — 2h 25m

Nov 6, 2021

Ryan Lanzel

Nov 3, 2021

Larry Nelson

Outstanding 6.3mi

Oct 31, 2021

Larry Nelson

Oct 23, 2021

Alex Silverman

Oct 17, 2021

Graham Rich

DuPont

Oct 10, 2021

Daniel daniel.ryan.paulsen@gmail.com

Aug 22, 2021

Bennett Bennett

Adam and josh we hiked through the woods got lost trying to cut off the gravel road sectio

Aug 5, 2021

Michael Gibb

Jul 1, 2021

Chris Rock

This trail is insane amounts of fun for someone who has been biking for about 4 months! 6.3mi — 4h 00m

Jun 28, 2021

Dennis Tracey

Radically FUN!!! F$&@ YES!!! Woot WOOT!

May 31, 2021

Daniel T

May 29, 2021

Patrick Klingensmith

Hendersonville, NC 6.4mi — 1h 09m

May 25, 2021

Jennifer Sutherland

6.3mi — 1h 05m

May 14, 2021

Anthony Dickinson

May 10, 2021

Mary Shell

May 6, 2021

Jennifer Sutherland

6.3mi — 1h 15m

Apr 26, 2021

HB Flame

Apr 19, 2021

Sarah Hunter

Apr 4, 2021

Russell H

Dec 23, 2020

Jeff Sayers

7.9mi — 1h 23m

Nov 28, 2020

Jason Martin

First time in DuPont with 7 year old sons and rode all but the rock garden at Jim Branch on 24" wheels. They loved the downhills, worked the climbs. 8.8mi — 1h 25m

Nov 24, 2020

Ken Ahrens

10mi — 2h 00m

Sep 30, 2020

daron topel

Jul 22, 2020

Henry Coatney

Jul 19, 2020

Justin Padgett

5mi

Jul 9, 2020

Brock Ladd

13.9mi — 1h 30m

Jul 5, 2020

Maureen Kelly

Jul 4, 2020

William Smith

Jul 3, 2020

Ja Ka

Downhill at end was legit.

Jun 26, 2020

Christine Lee

Jun 24, 2020

Neal Owens

Jun 14, 2020

Sarah Doss

Lake Imaging parking lot. Lake imaging to Jim Branch to Buck Forest rd to White Pine to Hooker creek to Hickory Mtn (start right) to ridgeline 6.3mi — 1h 45m

Jun 1, 2020

Brooke Sykes

5.3mi

Mar 14, 2020

CJ Waldrop

Feb 15, 2020

Ethan Newc

Nov 12, 2019

Matt V

6.3mi

Oct 15, 2019

Hector Hermosillo

Oct 9, 2019

Laura Laughter

Oct 8, 2019

Blake-Christie Miller

10h 00m

Oct 4, 2019

Alexa Muraida

Oct 2, 2019

Tri Geminy

Sep 24, 2019

Rock Nams

Sep 22, 2019

Danny Moore

Sep 15, 2019

justin heidbreder

Sep 7, 2019

Hailey Bouchard

Sep 2, 2019

Charlie Scharfen

Geeen sections are mostly fire road which was a little annoying but the last section of downhill (ridgeline) is totally worth it 6.3mi

Aug 16, 2019

Ian ianwmcharg@gmail.com

Aug 7, 2019

Cody Brissey

Aug 7, 2019

Bryan Glover

The whole north side of Dupont is just about perfect as of this morning.. Could use a light rain this afternoon to stay great for tomorrow 21mi — 1h 57m

Jul 30, 2019

Dave Groleau

Fun and flowy! 10mi

Jul 20, 2019

PJ and Jaynie Tank-Dillingham

Jul 16, 2019

Tucker Carter

Den

Jul 7, 2019

Scott McAllister

Got rained on Ridgeline downhill! 6.3mi — 0h 58m

Jun 29, 2019

Akdabi Ingram

8.1mi

Jun 22, 2019

Larry Hughes

Ridgeline trail proper definitely worth the ride if you are in the area. The rest of the trails were fun, but ridgeline was the funnest!! — 1h 50m

Jun 17, 2019

Cody Brissey

Jun 16, 2019

Josh Tilley

1h 15m

Jun 12, 2019

Bryan Glover

Trail in great shape after the rain 33.4mi — 3h 07m

Jun 11, 2019

Curtis Jones

Jun 5, 2019

Kaleo Mullen

Jun 2, 2019

Hailey Bouchard

Jun 2, 2019

Eric Mowls

Locals mentioned that conditions where "sandy". I thought it was mostly a few loose grains on really nice hard pack. Nearly perfect on 2.1x29.

May 26, 2019

Nick Kirkes

Tons o fun! 6.3mi

May 25, 2019

Todd Criswell

hooker falls and ridgeline with Patrick.

Apr 27, 2019

Chris Shegitz

Apr 26, 2019

Rob DiP

6mi

Apr 25, 2019

John Ghirardi

Did some variations that added to the length. The Jim Branch and Ridgeline sections are awesome. Bit too much fire road in the middle but recommended 10mi — 1h 30m

Apr 23, 2019

Ozzy P

Apr 14, 2019

Ashok Sivaram

Apr 13, 2019

Paul Mezentsoff

Apr 4, 2019

Kyle Loomis

dry and perfect

Mar 27, 2019

Alex Ward

Mar 17, 2019

Reilly Strong

Mar 14, 2019

Ben Dupont

Done! — 9h 15m

Feb 18, 2019

Jordan Davis

fun easy 6.3mi

Feb 9, 2019

Mark Sheffield

Dec 3, 2018

Randy Taylor

Sooo Fast!

Nov 24, 2018

Dave Campbell

Was wet today, but still a blast for my 1st time here. 6.2mi — 1h 22m

Nov 22, 2018

Suz Falvey

Ridgeline 6.3mi

Nov 17, 2018

Stacey Vaughan

7mi

Nov 11, 2018

Nina Perea

Nov 8, 2018

Chris Winn

Nov 7, 2018

Joey Atkins

Oct 27, 2018

Remmy Piper

first real mountain ride 1.7mi

Oct 27, 2018

Rob Koch

Oct 14, 2018

Rochelle D

Oct 8, 2018

M C

Sep 30, 2018

Pam Rodriguez

6.2mi

Sep 29, 2018

Todd Criswell

Fun again! 6.3mi

Sep 23, 2018

Timothy Kantner

Sep 22, 2018

malcolm alexander

Sep 22, 2018

Todd Criswell

Fast and flowy...love it! 6.2mi

Sep 21, 2018

Savannah Rogers

4.9mi

Sep 14, 2018

Jessica Dean

Sep 1, 2018

Mason M

a nice easy one with a fun descent at the end!

Aug 25, 2018

Suzanne Helmick

Aug 19, 2018

Sara Camuso

Super flowing downhill. 6.2mi

Aug 14, 2018

C 2

Flow fo days!

Aug 12, 2018

Herschel Johnson

Aug 11, 2018

Jake Kratovil

6.2mi

Aug 10, 2018

Andrew Davis

Aug 4, 2018

Zandr Tesolowski

Saw two black bear on the trail at separate locations around 7:30am.

Jul 27, 2018

Gary Gray

Jul 27, 2018

Tim Werdmann

Jul 22, 2018

Zandr Tesolowski

Awesome!

Jul 18, 2018

Aries Miclat

Wow! 7mi

Jul 15, 2018

Alec Pearson

6.2mi

Jul 12, 2018

Daniel Chapman

Jul 11, 2018

John Zabelle

Jul 5, 2018

Dan Peterson

Fun ride with Ana. First time at Dupont State Forest.

Jun 24, 2018

Shawn Grogan

Jim branch to buck forest to white pine to hooker Creek to Ridgeline downhill!!!! 6.5mi

Jun 22, 2018

d d

Jun 16, 2018

Mason Althar

Jun 9, 2018

Alex Ball

6.2mi

Jun 7, 2018

Mike Hitmar

May 17, 2018

Daniel Riley

May 12, 2018

William Lynch

6.2mi

May 12, 2018

Cory Liverman

Love this trail. Flow....flow....flow! Just fun. Nothing here to kill you. 6.3mi — 1h 30m

May 5, 2018

Jacob Finke

Apr 29, 2018

jen kammerer

Apr 21, 2018

Bill Christian

Apr 18, 2018

Matt Ivons

Apr 14, 2018

Nicholas Feliciano

This was a fun fast downhill. There was alot of people so had to slow down and stop a few time for the slow bikers ^_^

Apr 11, 2018

Frédéric Côté

Apr 2, 2018

Will S

Apr 1, 2018

Robin Scholz

17mi

Mar 31, 2018

Dennis White

Mar 28, 2018

Bob Kamelschirt

11mi

Mar 27, 2018

Allen Braswell

Mar 23, 2018

Eric Dubreuil

Dec 3, 2017

Anthony Thogmartin

Dec 2, 2017

Edward Gurley

Such a fun, fast and flowy ride...speed demons paradise! 12.4mi

Dec 2, 2017

Matt Standard

fast! 6.2mi

Nov 10, 2017

Donny Gray

7.1mi

Oct 27, 2017

Bennett Bennett

Lily and I Mynorco range fucked up I don't like this bike it's front pronounced it is not good for climbing Lily loved this trail hated other one

Oct 20, 2017

Kim Theodore

Oct 20, 2017

Jon Myer

Oct 17, 2017

Adam Mattessich

Oct 15, 2017

Matt Sieber

Rode 2-3 times w/ a couple of different climbs on this route during Pisgah Mtn Bike Fest. Super fast and flowing...everybody loved it

Oct 8, 2017

Steve Craig

Oct 5, 2017

Lauren Kallmeyer

13mi

Sep 30, 2017

Dan Zant

Sep 23, 2017

Kevin Simoneaux

Such a sick trail

Sep 17, 2017

Josh Lonon

Sep 9, 2017

John Hunter

New Condo 6mi

Aug 25, 2017

Kent Harvey

CO rider / 1st ride in NC. Fantastic ride. Highly recommended.

Aug 22, 2017

Tad Mathews

5.1mi

Aug 20, 2017

Rebecca Anderson

Aug 19, 2017

Mike Streed

Awesome!

Aug 13, 2017

Fabiano Botassoli

7.9mi — 1h 07m

Aug 7, 2017

Eric Lewis

Raining

Aug 6, 2017

Andrew Cutshall

Awesome. 6.4mi

Aug 6, 2017

Ronnie Cutshall

6.4mi

Jul 29, 2017

Stephanie Blue Brooks

Jul 29, 2017

Kurt Jordan

Jul 25, 2017

Jim Cree

Jul 22, 2017

Mike Drew

Jul 18, 2017

Jim Cree

Jul 6, 2017

Mike Schenk

Jun 28, 2017

Brendon Ritz

Top trail I have ridden. Great flow. Sis on 27 Jan at 1100. Perfect weather.

Jun 23, 2017

Evan Hollander

Jun 14, 2017

Todd Shafer

First time riding this trail great fun 6.2mi

Jun 13, 2017

Christian Roberts

Jun 12, 2017

Mahan Kick

Jun 7, 2017

Kyle Logan

6.2mi

Jun 4, 2017

bethlynne Heller

Jun 4, 2017

Nick Matus

Top trail in NC 6.2mi

May 29, 2017

Carl Hancock

May 28, 2017

Marcelo Galetovic

May 28, 2017

Travis Sims

First Time

May 27, 2017

Marcelo Galetovic

May 25, 2017

Corinne Newbern

Add Hickory Mountain Loop (1.4 miles) 7.6mi

May 24, 2017

Jesse Ivens

6.2mi

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