Exercise Loop Trail (#344)
Read MorePisgah Ranger Station/Visitor Center
The Exercise Loop Trail begins alongside the parking lot for the Pisgah Ranger Station and Visitor Center. This is great place to gather info on the National Forest as well as having a nice little gift shop...
Pisgah Ranger Station/Visitor Center Trailhead
Looking at the visitor center from the "trailhead" for the Exercise Loop, which runs along the length of the parking lot...
Pisgah Ranger Station/Visitor Center Trailhead (Andy Cove Nature & Exercise Loop Trails)
If heading around the loop in a clockwise direction (as this album does) the trail immediately passes its eastern junction with the Andy Cove Nature Trail, also right alongside the parking lot...
Exercise Loop Trail @ US-276 East Crossing
About a quarter-mile east of the visitor center the loop reaches its eastern crossing of US-276...
Exercise Loop Trail @ US-276 East Crossing
Looking up US-276 from the eastern crossing...this is busy road, particularly in the summer, so use extra caution...
Exercise Loop Trail @ US-276 East Crossing
The trail as it re-enters the woods on the south side, of the eastern crossing, of US-276...
Exercise Loop Trail @ Art Loeb Trailhead
Directly across from where the trail reaches the campground road is the busy Art Loeb Trailhead. If you wanted, you could just as easy walk the Exercise Loop from this spot as well...
Exercise Loop Trail @ Davidson River Campground Entrance
After crossing the bridge the trail makes a turn back into the woods on the right (seen in the next shot), while ahead the entrance to the campground can be seen...