Southern Gap Outdoor Adventure

08/31/2026

🏕️Labor Day Camping 🏕️

Southern Gap still has primitive camping spots available for this weekend! The perfect spot to pitch a tent and catch some views.

Come spend the holiday here with us, and visit Breaks Interstate Park for the annual Tri-State Gospel signing!

08/26/2026

Congratulations to our Trails & Tunes ATV event winners! 🎉

🏆 **Poker Run**
🥇 1st Place – Richard Sturgill
🥈 2nd Place – Nancy Rowe
🥉 3rd Place – Kim Cumbo

🏆And congratulations to **Timothy Hill**, winner of our **ATV Scavenger Hunt**!

A special thank you goes out to everyone who participated in the Poker Run. Your participation helped support **Shop with a Cop**, and we truly appreciate everyone who came out, joined in, and helped make the event a success.

We also want to thank **everyone who participated in any of the events throughout Trails & Tunes**, along with all of you who came out to spend the weekend with us. It was wonderful seeing so many people enjoying the trails, activities, music, and everything the weekend had to offer.

Thank you for making Trails & Tunes such a memorable weekend. We’re already looking forward to welcoming everyone back next year!

08/25/2026

08/24/2026

We are beyond grateful to our staff, the vendors, the musicians (including the Queen of Bluegrass), our sponsors, and most of all to our guests for an absolute blast of a weekend at the Southern Gap Trails and Tunes Festival. Our neighbors at Southern Gap Dirt Drags did a phenomenal job with the off-road events and we loved hosting you all for the music portion of the event. We will be meeting soon to make plans to make this event bigger and better for 2027!

08/23/2026

A big thank you to everyone who came out and participated in the **Mountain Melody 5K** during Trails & Tunes!

Congratulations to our top runners:

🏃 **Top Male Runner: Eric Ball**
🏃‍♀️ **Top Female Runner: Beverly Church**

We also want to congratulate all of this year’s winners and thank every runner, walker, volunteer, and supporter who helped make the Mountain Melody 5K a success.

Proceeds from the race benefit the **Alice Lloyd College Cross Country program**, and we were proud to present the proceeds following the event.

Thank you for spending part of your Trails & Tunes weekend with us, and congratulations again to Eric, Beverly, and all of our winners!

08/23/2026

Trails and Tunes Vendor Spotlight: Appalachian Nerd Designs. It's the last day of Trails and Tunes and these folks have some really cool nerdy things for yourself or to gift! Get it off their website or see them here while they are set up!

08/23/2026

Trails and Tunes Vendor Spotlight: Darlene's Kitchen. For the last day of Trails and Tunes come and check out what she's got and get some delicious sweets!

08/23/2026

Last day of Trails and Tunes at the Southern Gap Visitor Center!!

🍔 Our vendors will be set up again today, so come check them out for some wonderful, locally made craft items or for a delicious lunch!

🎶 Music will actually start at 2pm today (please note this is different from the flier). We will kick things off with local favorites, Josh and Seth McGlothlin, and will wrap things up with today’s headliner, The Kody Norris Show

It’s going to be another fun day, so get out and enjoy your afternoon with us at the Southern Gap Visitor Center!

08/23/2026

This is a late post, but tonight has been a late (and wonderful) night! When the Queen of Bluegrass shows up, so does her many fans in our community! We love hearing Ms. Vincent say she wants to come visit us again in the future, and judging by tonight’s crowd, we don’t think it can happen soon enough! Trails and Tunes is back for one more day tomorrow!

08/22/2026

Have you ever tried **Elk Loaf**?

If not, today’s your chance! Stop by the **Breaks Interstate Park food booth here at Trails & Tunes** and grab some while you’re here.

Come hungry and try a little Appalachian flavor while you enjoy the festival!