Marie Myers Park – AKA: The Year Round Get Down & Drop Inn
Rainy weather won’t get you down on the Year Round Get Down trails! Marie Myers Park has six all-weather direction trails, several multiuse trails, and a mellow, gravel “Toll Road” to climb back to the top – great for session laps.
The park is named after Marie Myers, who loved the outdoors and owned the land before her family sold the property to the City of Knoxville to be preserved and later opened to the public in 2012. The park is nestled in between Baker Creek Preserve, William Hastie Natural Area, and Ijams Nature Center trails and serves as an essential connector for the Urban Wilderness. If you frequent South Knoxville trails, you’ve likely passed under the bridge connector between Marie Myers Park and Baker Creek Preserve on Sevierville Pike.
Not unusual for Knoxville trails, part of the Year Round Get Down trails are owned by a private landowner, The Drop Inn – an outdoor retreat with cabins and RV sites in the heart of Knoxville’s Urban Wilderness and on the border of Marie Myers Park. Our ongoing partnership with The Drop Inn allowed us to create 4 new trails in 2022 and then reroute and update those trails in 2026 amidst final construction projects at The Drop Inn.
If you’re looking for some fun, technical, rocky rides, this might just be one of your favorite places to ride. You can climb all the way to the top for a true Party in the Woods, play in the rocks on Murphy’s Law or Giddy Up, fly on the berms on Soups On, or do it all on repeat. If you’re looking for a more laid back trail to connect you to the rest of the Urban Wilderness, you can take Red Bud Crest and Toll Road.
Parking: There is very limited parking at Marie Myers Park, but you can make your way there from just about anywhere in the Urban Wilderness. The closest places to park for Marie Myers are Baker Creek Pavilion, William Hastie Natural Area (1302 Margaret Road), or the Ijams Crag (2519 Aberdeen Lane; requires Ijams parking pass or $5 fee). You might get lucky with a more direct spot off Sevierville Pike (near the park’s entrance around 4701 Sevierville Pike). There is NO public parking at The Drop Inn.
