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Hiking · Horseback Riding · Motorcycles & Dirt BikesActivities
Signal Mountain & Prentice CooperTN
Tennessee Division of Forestry / TWRAManaged by
26,945 acres; ~100 mi forest roads/trails west of Suck Creek open to MTB/OHV/horse; Tower Drive 12-mi packed gravel spine with fire tower at mi 4; spurs to Ritchie Pt/Pot Pt/Snooper’s Rock overlooks. 40-mi 100%-gravel loop (GBA) and Komoot 53.7-mi loop from Chattanooga. Trailforks rid 17440 (38 trails, 95 mi, Caution 2026-06-16). Motorized: OHV allowed on designated roads (onX Offroad covered elsewhere). OSM relation 18512308 centroid 35.10112,-85.43761.
Fee: FreeDogs: LeashHours: Sunrise to sunset; closed to non-hunters on managed-hunt dates (April turkey; fall)
Parking & getting there
Main entrance/check station lot on Game Reserve Rd (Google place 'Prentice Cooper State Forest Parking Area' ~35.1652,-85.4195 from Gravel Bike Adventures link); primitive camps at Davis Pond and Hunter's Check Station.
Nearby
Close to here
Edwards Point overlook
Middle Creek (Tennessee River trib.) — Rainbow Lake to Tennessee River (put-in)
Lawson Rock overlook
Julia Falls 95
Julia Falls
Source: SORBA Chattanooga & clubs