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Length: 5.8 miles
Rating: Moderate
Hiking and Bicycling Times: This
will vary according to fitness level. For cyclists about 30-40 minutes,
for hikers about 3 hours
Flat Creek Loop Trail provides
vistas of mountain ridges and descends to shores of beautiful Lake Blue
Ridge. It also passes through coves of mature hardwoods.
To access this loop the visitor should follow the trail (white & dark
green blazes) on the road bed west from the bulletin board. Within a 100
yards the trail forks. Stay on the road bed to left. At about 0.4 miles
look for dark green blazed side trail into woods on left. This trail goes
through woods for about 0.25 miles. Come onto and follow old logging road
bed.
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gradually descends toward Flat Creek. After 0.5 miles trail joins old road
near creek. Follow road downhill to creek, cross and take right at about 50
yards. on old road. Follow road (Do not digress onto dead-end side roads!)
about 1.0 miles to head of valley. Head of valley has open, mature hardwoods
in abundance. Cross creek again heading uphill, gradually ascend old road to
graveled road. Follow dark green blazed graveled road 2.0 miles back to
parking lot.
Directions from Blue Ridge, Georgia:
Travel east (toward Blairsville, GA) on GA Hwy 515,
approx. 0.8 miles past intersection with GA Hwy 5. Turn Right at Windy
Ridge Rd., go 0.2 miles to dead end with Old U.S. 76. Turn left, go 0.2
miles to Aska Road. Turn right, go south 4.4 miles to Deep Gap parking
area below gap on west side of road.
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