Ross Marble Quarry Urban Knoxville

Mind you there are plenty more trails to ride in the knoxville urban wilderness than in this video.

Ross marble quarry urban knoxville.

Dirty south meads quarry gopro hd. Starting from the meade s quarry parking lot near ijams nature center follow imery s trail past the quarry. Jake wheeler the south loop is the glue of the urban wilderness connecting 40 miles of trails and 5 wilderness areas in its 12 5 mile main circuit. 13 1 mile course traverses the forks of the river wildlife area william hastie park marie myers park ross marble quarry ijams nature center and other haunts of the beautiful urban wilderness of south knoxville.

See a map of tharp trace and all the trails near meads quarry here. Known as the marble city in the 19 th century knoxville has a long history of marble quarrying. Multiple downtown businesses used that name including the marble city bank and the marble city saloon. Enjoy the surprising entry at view park drive.

A mix of rocky technical singletrack and buffed out flowing mountain bike trail. After 1910 a specific neighborhood along sutherland avenue became known as marble city reflecting the marble workers who lived there near more than one marble company. Recommended run about 12 miles. The gravel double track through the park shown as margaret road is the easiest way to navigate through the park.

Hastie natural area connects to ross marble quarry on a 2 mile flowing fun trail through marie myers park. Ijams nature center ijams quarry a recreation area within knoxville s urban wilderness. Hang a right onto ross marble and wind your way through the woods above the ross marble quarry. The marble city was a term often applied to knoxville beginning by the 1880s.

Make a left onto imery s then a right onto burnett ridge. The knoxville s urban wilderness south loop trail is a partnership effort spearheaded by the legacy parks foundation working with the city of knoxville knox county ijams nature center twra and the appalachian mountain bike club to connect 1 000 acres of parks and preserved land through an intricate trail system. Ross marble quarry 11 42 meades quarry 14 42. The south loop a trail marker in knoxville s urban wilderness.

The trail winds through the keyhole and over. Back then the ross marble company paid a small fee for land adjacent to what would soon become the ijams bird sanctuary and opened up a quarry to extract tennessee marble a highly polishable stone that was in great demand for grand buildings as well as national monuments.