Woodstock has three trail events in the first week of November, Two start a short walk apart downtown, and the third is held at the park where the first one ends up. SORBA Woodstock's group ride leaves Reformation Brewery on Sunday, Nov. 1. The brewery's Beer Mile loops Elm St Green four days later. The Rope Mill Dirty Duathlon takes place at Olde Rope Mill Park, and that park is where the Nov. 1 ride is headed.
The construction plans follow the same map. The Noonday Creek Trail Extension is designed to run south from a trailhead near Reformation Brewery and Elm Street Green. Little River Park's planned water trail on the Little River will connect toward Olde Rope Mill Park.
Elm Street is where the paved trail meets town
Downtown access to the Noonday Creek Trail is at Market Street. The City of Woodstock's Greenprints page describes the trail as linking downtown to Highway 92, with a bridge over Noonday Creek to Woofstock Dog Park. The city's GIS trail tour places the downtown trailhead near the Elm Street Cultural Arts Village. It describes a mostly shaded paved path with boardwalks, footbridges, and benches that passes under Dupree Road. At the Woofstock bridge, turning left heads toward Highway 92 and turning right heads back downtown.
Woofstock Park, at 150 Dupree Road, is where both the Noonday Creek and Towne Lake Pass trailheads begin. Towne Lake Pass is 1.94 miles. Rubes Creek Trail is a shorter 0.70 miles. The city's Trails Status page currently shows every Greenprints trail as open.
Saturday mornings on the downtown end of the trail are busier because of the market. Visit Woodstock lists the Farm. Fresh. Market at Market Street and Reformation Brewery's Backyard, open 8:30 a.m. to noon every Saturday through Dec. 19, 2026. That gives you about two months of Saturdays when a walk on the trail can begin or end at the market. The Elm Street area also gets more foot traffic from the downtown restaurant openings we covered earlier this year.
Three November dates, two venues
The trail calendar is packed into a single week. Two events start by Elm Street, and the third is at Olde Rope Mill Park.
- Sunday, Nov. 1, 11 a.m. SORBA Woodstock all-levels ride. The group leaves Reformation Brewery, rides through Woodstock to the trails at Olde Rope Mill Park, and comes back to the brewery afterward. SORBA Woodstock posts the details.
- Thursday, Nov. 5, 6 to 8 p.m. Reformation Brewery's November Beer Mile. The course is four quarter-mile laps around the Reeves house and Elm St Green. It's a street loop, and it doesn't use the Noonday Creek Trail. Event page.
- Saturday, Nov. 7. Rope Mill Dirty Duathlon and 3.3 Mile Trail Run at Olde Rope Mill Park. The trail run starts at 8:58 a.m. and the duathlon at 9:00 a.m. Registration prices went up after Oct. 17. The organizer says some of the proceeds go toward SORBA Woodstock's trail maintenance. Race page.
The Nov. 1 ride is the event that shows how the network fits together today. Downtown and Rope Mill aren't connected by a continuous trail, so the group rides through town to get from one to the other.
What waits at the other end of the Nov. 1 ride
Olde Rope Mill Park is at 690 Olde Rope Mill Rd. The city lists 14 miles of trail in the Taylor Randahl Memorial Bike Trails, split among three systems: the Mill Trails, the Explorer Trails, and the Avalanche Trail. The SORBA Woodstock trail page gives each trail its own rating:
| Trail | Length | SORBA rating |
|---|---|---|
| Moore's Pass | 0.5 mi | Beginner |
| Raceway | 1.8 mi | Beginner, with intermediate features |
| Powerhouse | 1.8 mi | Intermediate, with advanced features |
| Turbine | 1.0 mi | Intermediate, with advanced features |
| Explorer Loop 1 | 0.5 mi | Beginner, with intermediate technical level |
| Explorer Loop 2 | 1.5 mi | Intermediate |
| Explorer Loop 3 | 1.0 mi | Intermediate |
| Avalanche Loop 1 | 1.5 mi | Advanced |
| Avalanche Loops 2 and 3 | Not listed | Advanced |
If your Nov. 1 group includes newer riders, Moore's Pass, Raceway, and Explorer Loop 1 are the three trails SORBA rates as beginner. Riding direction depends on the day. Trails run clockwise on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and counter-clockwise on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Moore's Pass and Turbine are clockwise only, every day. Because Nov. 1 is a Sunday, the ride will be going clockwise. On race day, Saturday, Nov. 7, the posted direction is counter-clockwise.
A wet weekend can cancel the plan
Rain affects these November dates more than anything on the calendar does. SORBA closed every trail at Rope Mill for wet conditions on Oct. 10, and its homepage listed them open again as of Oct. 12. Before that, in late August, SORBA had closed the Explorer trails for bridge maintenance while the rest stayed open.
SORBA spells out two rules. Closed trails are closed to everyone, walkers included. The date shown on the status page is the last time the status changed, not the last time someone checked the trails. The city's Trails Status page sends Rope Mill questions to SORBA, so sorbawoodstock.org is the page to check on the morning of the ride or the race. The paved Greenprints trails downtown follow the city's separate status listing.
The southern extension is close, and the date has moved before
The Noonday Creek Trail Extension is the project meant to push the downtown trail south. The city held its groundbreaking on Dec. 20, 2023. The route starts near Noonday Park on Shallowford Road, runs north under Highway 92, and joins Woodstock's existing Noonday Creek Trail. The city's August 2024 update called it a mile-and-a-half extension from the trailhead near Reformation Brewery and Elm Street Green to Noonday Creek Park in Cobb County.
The target date has moved several times:
- August 2024. The city said the segment would open "around this time next year."
- June 2025. WSB-TV reported that weather had pushed completion to spring 2026.
- August 24, 2026. The City Council capital-project report showed the extension under construction and 90% complete, with a September 2026 target and a contract sum of $8,480,255.95.
The September target has now passed, and this project's projected dates have shifted before, so check the city's Trails Status page before planning a route that relies on it. The trip to Alabama that the city once described also depends on Cobb County. Town Center CID lists Cobb's Noonday Creek Trail at 6.88 miles, from the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park Visitor Center to Bells Ferry Road. Cobb's planning page still describes the stretch from Bells Ferry to Noonday Creek Park as a proposed extension. Reaching the Silver Comet is a future goal.
A smaller piece on the other side of downtown is already finished. Dobbs Trail Phase 2, which links Melanie Lane to the sidewalk near Ruisseau, wrapped up in May. Phase 1 runs from Main Street to Melanie Lane and was finished in September 2025.
Little River Park is aimed at spring, not this season
The biggest project is still a construction site. Little River Park covers 110 acres. The city says it will double Woodstock's greenspace and become the city's largest park. It's funded by the 2023 Trails & Parks Bond, and estimated completion is spring 2027. The plan includes about 1.75 miles of concrete and boardwalk trail along the Little River corridor, a pond with platforms for fishing and paddling, large and small dog parks, and a Woodlands-zone trailhead with restrooms and parking. The main entrance will be on Trickum Road.
The city's September 2026 update lists concrete poured for trail links from the boardwalk to the upper Trickum parking lot and from the boardwalk to the pond. It also lists the start of fishing platform installation and final grading for the open-space field circles in the Woodlands zone. When it's finished, the park's water trail is planned to connect toward Olde Rope Mill Park, the same place the Nov. 1 ride is headed.
For November, the network you can use is the downtown trailhead, the paved trail to Woofstock, the 14 miles at Rope Mill, and the town streets that link them. More on how these places fit into everyday Woodstock is on our Woodstock neighborhood page.
If you'd like to talk about which parts of Woodstock sit closest to the trailheads, or what Little River Park might mean for the streets around Trickum Road once it opens, The Trivon Group is glad to have that conversation. Let's Connect.
