The Kitsuma Time Trial is a classic local trail with a long history of recorded times, even before FKTs existed. The trail starts at the top of kitsuma trail, takes a short uphill climb before bombing down a steep and technical ~1500ft descent, traditionally down to the water fountain at the bottom of the trail. Runners then turn around and climb back up, with the start/finish desginated as the junction of trail and pavement in the parking lot. 

The Shut-In Ridge is a historic trail, originally built by George Vaderbilt to access his hunting lodge near the top of mount pisgah. He reportedly named it based on the long segments of rhondodendron tree canopies which gave the trail a feeling of being "shut in". The trail has for many years been the site of the Shut In Trail race, a legendary local trail raceand proving ground since the 1980s, which is rumored to now be defunct due to new blue ridge parkway regulation changes.