The Shoe Creek Trail is located in George Washington national Forest and is very close to and basically connects with Crabtree Falls. The trail itself is about 2.5 miles round trip and is not overly difficult . The trail went on for several hours, and involved about 4 miles of mostly narrow, rock based, fairly steep trail surface with rock boulders to be gone over in a number of places and with four or so stream crossings to be done. The trail passes through several segments of private property and also an area bordered on the right by the Priest Wilderness Area so be careful and dont venture from the trail. Once we reached the top of the mountain, then we headed down the other side back toward state route 56. After another half mile of travel we came to the upper parking lot for the CrabTree foot trail which leads down to CrabTree Falls. These two trails go nicely together and are easily done in a day if you get an early start! I would definitely recommend Shoe Creek if you are looking for places to wheel in George Washington National Forest.

Directions:

The Shoe creek Trail actually starts out as a right turn off of 827 across a narrow bridge onto local gravel road 826, where it proceeds for about half a mile or so. Here, state maintenance ends and the road becomes a trail, disappearing abruptly into the forest. Trail Access (start) 37.83057 -79.08384 Trail Access (end) 37.78938 -79.10266