Sugar Tree Knob is tar and chip and a good ride from 53 past the Sugar Tree Knob Church of Christ. Be sure to stop there and see the Cemetery and use the very nice outhouse. As the road goes east from there it becomes the N Sht. Mt. Road and is gravel not suitable for road bikes.

Isn't there a route that dumps out onto Stones River Rd to Sht Mtn?

looks like mason hollow road. takes you between sugar tree and stones river. I have never been on that road though to know what the surface is like.

Mason Hollow will connect a rider to the River Road. The surface is tar and chip, and no worse than the roads leading to it.

Old folks will recall the wonderful rides od yesteryear to John Sanborn's home on Short Mtn. He's in MTSU Dept. of Social Work: 898-2685; jsanborn@mtsu.edu