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Date: 07/29/2025 Name: Spoonauger & King Creek Falls Loop Distance: 5.0 Difficulty: Easy Total Climbing Elevation: 722 Type: Loop Notes: While still warm and humid, the 70°F to 82°F temperatures were slightly cooler than forecast making the hike much more enjoyable. We hiked on both the Foothills and Chattooga River Trails. These trails were well […]

Date: 07/22/2025 Name: Raven Cliff Falls Trail Distance: 5.32 Difficulty: Easy to Moderate Total Climbing Elevation: 548 Type: Out & Back Notes: It was a "great day for a hike," but still a warm (75-80°F) and humid, partly cloudy day. We began our hike from GA Hwy 348, a couple of curves north of the

Date: 07/15/2025 Name: High Shoals and Blue Hole Falls Trail Distance: 3.8 Difficulty: Easy Total Climbing Elevation: 617 Type: Out & Back Notes: This was actually a two-trail hike, one on the High Shoals Falls trail and the second on the Unicoi Lake trail. Both were easy hikes. We had warm, 75°F-85°F temperatures and high

Date: 07/08/2025 Name: Bartram Trail to Scaly Mountain Distance: 4.1 Difficulty: Moderate Total Climbing Elevation: 1,135 Type: Out & Back Notes: With an early start, it was a "not too warm," sunny, summer day with 70-80°F temperatures. The almost continuous forest and rhododendron cover provided welcome shade. The trail was quite dry and in good

Date: 07/01/2025 Name: Homestead + 4 More Falls Trail Distance: 4.7 Difficulty: Difficult Total Climbing Elevation: 548 Type: Loop Notes: This was one of the more challenging hikes we've taken. Except for the first mile on Pumping Station Rd, most of our hiking was on poorly or not identifiable paths with extensive overgrowth and numerous

Date: 06/03/2025 Name: Terra Incognita Loop + Pigeon Mtn Trail Distance: 8.0 Difficulty: Moderate Total Climbing Elevation: 1,237 Type: Loop Notes: It really was a "great day for a hike" with Chris Ernst guiding us around several of the on-property trails and points of interest at Terra Incognita Vineyard. The trails in Terra Incognita were

Date: 05/20/2025 Name: Rhododendron & Chenocetah Tower Loop Distance: 5.6 Difficulty: Easy to Moderate Total Climbing Elevation: 958 Type: Loop Notes: We had a sunny, warm and humid day for this late spring hike. The trail was in fair condition except for 3 passable blowdowns. The outbound half of this hike was moderately difficult with

Date: 05/06/2025 Name: Park Creek-Park Ridge Loop Distance: 5.8 Difficulty: Easy Total Climbing Elevation: 656 Type: Loop Notes: Truly a "great day for a hike" with perfect mild weather, good trails, numerous wildflowers and the pleasant sights and sounds of Park Cree and the Nantahala River. This was an easy hike with well maintained trails,

Date: 04/29/2025 Name: Foothills Trail-Whitewater Falls to Lower Whitewater Falls Distance: 6.6 Difficulty: Easy to Moderate Total Climbing Elevation: 988 Type: One-way Notes: It was a beautiful, mild sunny day for this easy to moderately difficult hike. The trails were in excellent condition. There was lots of water flowing over both falls making them very

Date: 04/15/2025 Name: Appalachian Trail – WilsonLick Ranger Station to Wayah Bald Distance: 6.2 Difficulty: Moderate Total Climbing Elevation: 1,483 Type: Out & Back Notes: It started as a sunny, but fairly cold, 47F, windy morning, but ended sunny and mild. Trail conditions were quite good, but still had the usual rocks and roots of