Hill Country Rollout

Routes & trails

Public trail systems for running and riding, the courses of the region's gravel and MTB events, and a map of unpaved public roads to plan your own gravel loops.

Brown dashed lines: unpaved public roads from OpenStreetMap (toggle on the map). Full map with rides & races →

Trail systems

Barton Creek Greenbelt
Austin · trail running, mtb, hiking
Brushy Creek Regional Trail
Cedar Park · trail running, hiking
Eisenhower Park
San Antonio · trail running, hiking
Friedrich Wilderness Park
San Antonio · trail running, hiking
Government Canyon State Natural Area
San Antonio · trail running, mtb, hiking
Guadalupe River State Park
Spring Branch · trail running, mtb, hiking
Hill Country State Natural Area
Bandera · trail running, mtb, hiking
McAllister Park
San Antonio · trail running, hiking, mtb
Panther Canyon Nature Trail
New Braunfels · hiking
Pedernales Falls State Park
Johnson City · trail running, mtb, hiking
Purgatory Creek Natural Area
San Marcos · trail running, mtb, hiking
Walnut Creek Metropolitan Park
Austin · trail running, mtb, hiking

Event courses

We link to each organizer's own course page.

Beyond the Grind Gravel Weekend
Castell · Gravel · 66.1 mi (Saturday Hill Country route), 45 mi (Sunday Castell Grind route)
Castell Grind
Castell · Gravel · 31 mi, 45 mi, 62 mi
Come And Grind It
Leesville · Gravel · 22 mi, 33 mi, 44 mi, 62 mi
DragonSlayer
Georgetown · MTB · 30 mi, 60 mi, 90 mi, 100 mi, 200 mi (Legendary, 36-hour)
Fat Chuck's Revenge
Smithville · MTB · 3 laps (TMBRA marathon)
Old Coughran Town GRVL
Pleasanton · Gravel · 31 mi, 51 mi, 68 mi
Post Oak Gravel
Rockdale · Gravel · 51.5 mi
Texas Three Step
Leakey · Gravel · 35 mi, 50 mi
The Excruciation Exam
Warda · MTB · 71 mi (Exam), 2 laps at Bluff Creek Ranch (Quiz)
The Hügelland Holiday Marathon
Fredericksburg · MTB · 42 mi
The Lit Whizzy
Harwood · Gravel · 18 mi, 34 mi, 46 mi, 61 mi

Plan your own gravel

The map above can show every county road and minor road that OpenStreetMap tags as unpaved and not private, from San Antonio to Austin and west to Castell and Leakey. It's a planning aid, not a route list: surfaces change, some roads end at gates, and the tags can be wrong. Only roads a mapper has tagged with a surface show up, so plenty of real gravel roads are missing.

For rider-shared Texas gravel routes, browse Gravelmap →

Routes and trail info are for planning only and may be out of date. Conditions change fast after rain. Never cross a low-water crossing with water flowing over it. Ride and run only where it's public and allowed; respect closed gates, private property and park rules. A line on a map is not permission to be somewhere. You go at your own risk. Spotted a problem? Tell us.

Coming soon: the weekend email

We're putting together a short Thursday email with the best group rides, gravel rides, group runs and races around the Hill Country for the coming weekend. Free. Sign up now and you'll get the first one.