|
Length: 5.8 miles
Rating: Moderate
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. Route rejoins a dug trail and 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.
|
|
|
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 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.
|
