RiverView Inn

This is the upper section of the Guild Trail at the Ruby Falls entrance. To access the trailhead, drive into the main Ruby Falls attraction entrance (at the big sign) and drive to the back of the parking lot- there will be a small gated gravel parking lot on your left at the turn. This is a wide, gravel stroll in the woods. Gravel riders and trail runners use this trail and there are many options to connect to different trails.

This is not a hiking trail, it is an attraction. Ruby Falls is a paid waterfall attraction in an underground cavern. The walk is easy and the cave formations are interesting. The cave which houses Ruby Falls was formed with the formation of Lookout Mountain. About 200 to 240 million years ago (in the Carboniferous Period, at the end of the Paleozoic Era) the eastern Tennessee area was covered with a shallow sea, the sediments of which eventually formed limestone rock. About 200 million...

If you are wanting a slightly longer and more challenging trail than the typical at this location, combine the hard trail up to sunset rock, then over to point park, and down Mt. Beautiful trail under the Incline Railway twice and back to Craven’s House at the end for just over 6 miles

To start this loop, park at the Craven's House (entrance road above Ruby Falls). Start by going up the main path and turn right onto "Rifle Pits Trail" at the first split. Take a left onto "Upper Truck Trail", where you can explore the remnants of the old CCC Camp Demaray that housed 200 men. Continue left and at the next intersection, turn left onto "Gum Spring Trail" which is the roughest part of the trail- this will lead you to Sunset Rock. Take a left onto "Craven's House Trail" and back...