I've only been to brimstone but it only cost twenty something the first day then each additional day after that was cheaper.

 

brimstone shows 65.00 a week per person so looking at 130 a week for the 2 of us.

 

I believe the TWRA permit is good for Trails End and Royal Blue. Royal Blue is selling a TWRA hunting permit that includes the trail permit which is actually cheaper. A small loop hole they found and pass along the savings.

 

We bought the $130 hunting permit at trails end. Only needed one per vehicle. Passenger rides free. I believe brimstone has a $88 annual permit per person.

 

Unrelated, but how are the trails there at Ashland, looking to head there in a few weeks...

 

Ashland Resort is a great campground. Top notch facility very well run. Locals are very friendly and everyone has shown us some really good trails. The HM trails marked green and about 1/2 the blue in the Indian River area are pretty tame but still fun. pretty wet here right now but zero dust which is a good thing. The Black trails are quite a bit more challenging. We rode to pineville yesterday which put us into the Pinnacle area and rode a lot of trails there that were a lot more fun to us a lot of up and down the mountains not extreme trails by any means but more of what we expected. Rode 85 miles yesterday and didn't get back till 9:00pm so 11 hrs was a long day. Probably ride some of the Pocahontas trails today . Hook up with some local people to show you the best outlaw trails. So many trails . Decisions Decisions.

 

The fees are actually cheap. Local park to me wants $40 a day to ride. The same twra permit works at royal blue and across the highway where trails end is. There are plenty of trails to ride on both sides.

 

For the TN permits/fees. The difference in price is one is a "riding permit $200" and one is a "hunting license $131". Ironically, the hunting license includes a the right to ride as well. As mentioned before...it is per vehicle not per person.

The Royal Blue and Brimstone areas are leased land and managed by those companies. You will need a permit from them to ride on those trials...the TWRA permit/license does not apply to those areas.

For Trails End, you will need the TWRA permit/license as those trails are on land that is not leased by them, but is managed by TN Wildlife.

 

Daily use permit is same type 038 for Trails End/Royal Blue/Sundquist. Per vehicle, not per person. Suspect the RB site has the updated pricing, as I paid the $15 local price a couple of weeks ago. Can also download the TWRA app to your phone and purchase the pass(s) online too. $3.00 processing fee added, but you get the pass emailed and texted to you.

Trails End site: Nonresident Daily Permit (Type 038) - $30.50
Royal Blue site: Daily out of state permit, type 038, $37.00

 

Trails End and Ride Royal Blue are just campgrounds they do not own or lease any trails. They just sell TWRA permit for the riders convenance. TWRA permit cover all the trails in this area except Windrock and Brimstone. And as already mentioned TWRA permits are one per vehicle Windrock and Brimstone are per person.
HTH

 

to ride twra, you need # 71 and # 93 permit for non-resident. Total is $109.00 License is good from march-march

071 NR Hunting No Big Game-Expires 2/29/16 $90.00
093 WMA Small Game $16.00
AGENT FEES ($3.00) TOTAL: $109.00

 

Thanks for the help. We plan to spend a week in the area so daily permit won't work. looks like either Ride Royal Blue or Trails End with the TWRA permits then . Guess depends on where we can get a comping spot .

 

Just returned from there, another thing they do not tell you at trails end is that you are actually closer to the trails at brimstone than the trails end trails. so I say just get the brimstone pass since the trails are closer. to ride the trails end trails we had to ride 7 miles down a gravel road to get to the trail head.

 

Heading there in a week or so. Camping at trails end. Can we get a brimstone pass at trails end campground? Just really planned on riding brimstone trails. How are the trails? Any help on this place would be great! Thanks!

 

No you have to get a brimstone permit at the brimstone office. Their trails are excellent.

 

Windrock is $17 a day / person or $88 a year. In state or out of state does not matter. Great camping also at Windrock campground or Sportsmans campground. There is an additional free for special events of $15 / person. There is a MAJOR event this weekend.

 

Just saying ; it's cheaper and more fun at Windrock. 7500 acres. 300 miles of trails from mild to wild.

We live only a few miles from all 3 and find Windrock is more " out of state " friendly , financially saying.

 

Around here you can drive on city streets to get from point to point.