Directions to trail head- Go east on Rt 322 (either business or the bypass) until they join just south of Boalsburg. Take a right on Bear Meadows Rd. Follow past the ski slopes. Look for a drive on left marked State Forest Trailhead parking. This is just before the first wooden bridge.

Ride Directions – head to the back of the parking lot and take the small trail out the back. Stay right/straight as it is joined from behind to your left. Take this just a short distance to Bear Meadows Rd. Head up the road about 0.2 miles and take the dirt road, laurel run rd on your right. Follow this up about a mile. You will go through one hairpin switch back then at the next switchback you will see a pull off straight ahead. Go through that and take the trail at the back of that. This is Three Bridges Trail. Go through the rock garden, over the three bridges and follow the trail to the next intersection. Go left down spruce gap trail a very short distance. Go right on Lonberger Path. This is a fairly gentle buff climb. You will pass over a couple gravel logging roads but just keep following the trail.

After about 2 miles, keep an eye out for the trail to head to the right over a log ramp. If you run into Bear Meadows road again without going through a serious amount of rocks, then head back and look for the turn that will now be on your left, maybe 0.2 miles back at most. This section is rather rocky and will test your technical skills for sure. You cross over kettle trail, keep on Longberger After a short rocky downhill you will end up on North (Bear) Meadows Road.

Go left on North Meadows Rd. Just past the gate, go Right on Bear Meadows Rd. Start looking for a single track on your left, its in sort of a grassy area next to the road. If you make it to another gravel road intersection, you missed it by a lot, its only a 100 yards or so down Bear Meadows road. You are now on what we call Tuxedo – part of the Tussey Mountain trail – the second extension. The first half is a bit of a climb and then heads down a bit over some rocks to the intersection of Kettle Trail.

Stay Straight on the Tussey Mountain Trail. This rolls along through some rocks for about 2 miles, with the middle mile section having been part of a forest fire, but the trail is still in great shape except for a bit of bulldozing fire line. This intersects with the wide grassy underground gas line cut. Go straight across the gas line and continue on the tussey mountain trail. Go Right at the T intersection and head down “the extension” (or Tussex). This eventually brings you back to the gas line.

Go left and down the gas line, be careful as its pretty loose. Go left on Treaster Kettle road at the bottom of the gas line. Go right on Thickhead Mtn Road, about a quarter mile down treaster kettle. Follow Thickhead mtn rd up about a mile until you come to a yellow gated road at the first real switchback (there is a right hand turn in the road prior to the switchback). Go down this gated road, past two camps. Continue on the now grassy mess of an old road until you are once again at the gas line. Go up the gas line to the left about 50 ft and look for the trail on the far side of the gas line, on your right. There are blue blazes on the tree marking it. This is John Wert Path - another challenge for your technical skills. Follow it up, keeping an eye out for blue blazes if you seem to loose the trail, but its not hard to follow, just gets a little tough under a few big pines. This puts you out on Bear Meadows rd. Go right on Bear Meadows rd.

At this point there are four options:

1. Head back down Bear Meadows road to the parking lot (about 19 miles total trip)
2. Take a left on North Meadows Rd , a right on Longberger and re-trace your route back (about 20 miles total trip)
3. Take a right up Tuxedo and do the Tussey ridge trail again, but at the gas line (the first time) go left down the gas line, then left on the first trail (the map may not show this going through as it goes through private property, but its OK to ride), continue down the gravel road (be careful as there is a wire rope at the end of the trail before the road starts). Then right on bear meadows road at the T intersection. (about 23 miles total trip)
4. Head up north meadows road if you still want more riding and some steep down hill single track. At the top of the mountain take a right on Gettis Ridge road. At the next intersection, after the gate, go right (its either Bear Gap rd or Greenlee rd). After a short down hill you will see a really spectacular view point. Wildcat Gap trail is just to the left of that pull off area. Head down. At the bottom, head down the camp road to Laurel Run Road. Go right on Laurel run road and climb up that. Near the top, after the road has made a left turn, there is a road to the right (this will be the second road over all, not Bear Gap). You can either take the road you are on back to bear meadows road or head up this road to the right for a single track decent. Keep an eye out on your left for a trail marker for the M.S.T. but DO NOT take that, its just a good reference to slow down and really start looking for Old Laurel Run Rd Trail. There are will be another trail just before it possibly marked shingletown trail or something to the effect, you do not want that one. Old Laurel Run Road trail is marked with blue paint on some rocks at the edge of the road (the shingletown one has blue paint too, just to keep things confusing). If you get to the fire tower, you missed it. If you have taken the right trail down, it will put you out at the beginning of the Three Bridges trail. Just take the road down to bear meadows road from there, taking a left on bear meadows back to the parking lot. If you take the wrong trail and end up on laurel run road across from a gate and a pull off area, just take a right on laurel run road and it will take you down to bear meadows road, all you have lost is a little bit more single track down hill. Not sure what this mileage is, but it’s a long ride.