The ST is a national Recreation Trail and is signed at major crossings with the USA recreation trail marker.
Trail is on the old Wilderness Road here and passes important Civil War fortifications.
Sandstone pinnacle and suspension bridge over Sheltowee Trace. - Sandstone pinnacle and suspension bridge over Sheltowee Trace.
As seen from an overlook on trail
Blue Heron open air museum is a few miles off the Sheltowee Trace and is one of the best side trips in the South Trail section. Left image: Devil's Jump and the right image: coal mine office with oral history audio played by pushing a button in the display.
the JMT is signed with a profile of John Muir and the right image is an old homestead found on the trail.
The ST & JMT share about a mile of trail in the Big South Fork. We published a guide for the 47-mile JMT in the Big South Fork, which is a foot-travel only trail...and a fantastic one at that!
Left image is Rock Creek ford above the Big South Fork river and the right image is Rock Creek on the John Muir/Sheltowee Trace trail in the trout stream section.