Bring the whole family to Ride Royal Blue

Campground has only private access to 430 miles of trails

It doesn’t take long to see that Ride Royal Blue ATV Guest Resort and Campground is a family affair. Operated by Sheila Westray, her daughter Jessica, and son Nathan, not only is the business operation reliant upon family, but with a fun-filled family atmosphere, it’s who they cater to as well.

"I saw a little 3-year-old boy this weekend hoopin’ and hollerin’ ‘I caught one, I caught one,’ and I thought to myself; that’s why I’m here,” Sheila Westray said as she remembered seeing the boy at the campground's stocked fish pond. “That’s why I’m doing this.” “Our focus is on families who want to introduce their children to the mountains,” she said. Ride Royal Blue, located at 6307 Stinking Creek Road in Pioneer, Tennessee has been granted the only private access to a wildlife management area in the state by Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency officials. Ride Royal Blue’s 80 acre property adjoins the Royal Blue Wildlife Management Area (WMA), so visitors can unload the trailer, camp and ride.

Royal Blue WMA consists of 53,000 acres of naturally-wooded mountains in Campbell County, Tennessee, complete with about 430 miles of ATV riding trails. It also connects to 130,000 acres that has been designated as the North Cumberland Wildlife Management Area where elk have been reintroduced from Canada to in hopes of restoring the elk population.

While there are public accesses to the Royal Blue WMA, campers would argue that Ride Royal Blue is the only way to access this WMA.

“This place is great,” Royal Blue Ranger Club Vice President John Miller said. “You can camp here. Eat here. It’s secure. If you park at the 141 (Exit 141 on I-75), it’s park at your own risk. Here, you can leave whatever you want ... Read More...