Hiking trails near Winston-Salem, North Carolina

54 official trails lie within 25 miles of Winston-Salem — 119 miles in total, 49 rated easy and 2 hard or expert. Every distance and elevation figure below is computed from the agency centerline and a 10 m elevation model, not crowd-sourced.

The biggest climb nearby gains 985 ft; the median trail gains 133 ft.

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24 trails worth the drive

Trail	Miles	Climb	Difficulty	From town
Moore's Wall Loop Trail	4.5	879 ft	Hard	20 mi
Corridor	6.9	235 ft	Hard	17 mi
Grindstone Trail	3.1	985 ft	Moderate	20 mi
Mountain Trail	4.4	523 ft	Moderate	19 mi
Pilot Creek Trail	3.1	441 ft	Moderate	20 mi
Ruben Mountain Trail	2.9	316 ft	Easy	21 mi
Cook's Wall Trail	1.8	437 ft	Easy	19 mi
RM Collins Trail	1.7	452 ft	Easy	22 mi
Window Falls	1.4	508 ft	Easy	21 mi
Ring-necked	3.0	133 ft	Easy	22 mi
Original Loop	3.1	134 ft	Easy	22 mi
Tory's Den/Ruben Mountain Trail	1.6	416 ft	Easy	21 mi
Hanging Rock Trail	1.2	480 ft	Easy	20 mi
Salem Lake Trail	6.9	75 ft	Easy	6 mi
Wild Turkey Trail	3.4	94 ft	Easy	24 mi
Indian Creek Trail	2.0	308 ft	Easy	22 mi
Owl's Roost Trail	3.5	68 ft	Easy	23 mi
Nat Greene Trail	3.3	80 ft	Easy	24 mi
Sauratown Trail - Section 9	1.4	377 ft	Easy	20 mi
Bald Eagle Trail	4.4	80 ft	Easy	20 mi
Leatherwood Loop	1.9	141 ft	Easy	20 mi
Sauratown Trail - Section 10	1.2	339 ft	Easy	20 mi
Tory's Den Trail	1.1	337 ft	Easy	20 mi
Land of the Lost	1.8	136 ft	Easy	22 mi

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