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It's pretty big, over 600 square miles. This is Marjorie Kennan Rawlings (The Yearling) territory.

The section of the forest I usually ride in is north of Lake Kerr. I have a gravel bike with 700 X 35 tires. I can handle hard packed dirt, light sand, gravel and limestone roads. I can't do super sugary sand. Unfortunately, many of those roads that crisscross the forest are deep sand. I am only able to recently ride some of them due to the forest service coming through and scraping off a layer of sand and exposing the limestone. Sadly, the ATV crowd got to the forest first and most of the trails are for them. There are some good hiking trails also forbidden to bikes. There are almost no bike trails. My next bike I want is a fat bike for the really sandy stuff, but that has to wait since I lack the storage space at this time.