Hiking Fort Mountain: Outstanding Views along a Mysterious Wall

Quick stats: Length: 2-8 miles Difficulty: Easy to Moderate Highlights: The hiking trails at Fort Mountain State Park travel to outstanding long range views, a mysterious, massive rock wall, a CCC rock tower, and through incredibly beautiful forest. The hiking trails at Fort Mountain State Park in North...

Tumbling Waters: Hiking Amicalola Falls

This hiking trail courses a short 2.1 miles and combines 2 trails to travel from the park office to the impressive 729 foot tall waterfall and back down on several of the lesser-traveled trails at the park. The park can be busy – especially on weekends and in the fall and spring seasons – so we...

Hiking Panther Creek: One of Georgia’s Most Beautiful Waterfalls

Quick stats: Length: 7 miles Difficulty: Moderate to difficult (short sections have sharp dropoffs and are difficult – we don’t recommend this hike for children or dogs) Highlights: This popular hiking trail follows along the banks of Panther Creek for 3.5 miles to one of the most beautiful...

The Giant Gennett Poplar in a Rich Creek Valley: Hiking Bear Creek

Quick stats: Length: 3 miles (loop) Difficulty: Easy Highlights: This hike in the Chattahoochee National Forest courses through a rich valley along Bear Creek and visits the Gennett Poplar, a giant tulip poplar tree. Bear Creek is a popular destination for both hiking and mountain biking – and for...

Hiking the West Rim Loop and Waterfall Trails at Cloudland Canyon

Quick stats: Length: 6.8 miles Difficulty: Moderate Highlights: Breathtaking views abound along these two joined hiking trails that follow the rim of Cloudland Canyon before descending to the canyon floor. Located in the Northwest corner of Georgia and extending along the Western edge of Lookout Mountain,...

Trails Along Whitewater and Ruins – Hiking Sweetwater Creek in Atlanta

Quick stats: Length: 4 miles (loop) Difficulty: Easy to moderate Highlights: The hike visits the ruins of a textile mill destroyed in the Civil War and travels the rocky bluffs of a rushing whitewater creek – all within minutes outside of Atlanta. This four mile hiking trail leaves from the...

Backpacking the Appalachian Trail: Blood Mountain to Cowrock Mountain

We’ve long held the Blood Mountain Wilderness area to be our favorite in Georgia, offering awe-inspiring views from ridge line peaks and trails through beautiful Georgia forest dotted with rocky outcrops. This hike combines several of our favorites, traveling to the peak of Blood Mountain before...

Hiking the Appalachian Trail – Three Forks to Springer Mountain

The famed Appalachian Trail – over 2,176 miles in length from Georgia to Maine – travels through some of Georgia’s most scenic hiking areas.  This 8.6 mile hike southbound on the Appalachian Trail travels to the southernmost point of the trail at Springer Mountain from beautiful Three...

Pinhoti Trail: Hiking North from Snake Creek Gap to Mill Creek Mountain

This 7 mile ridgeline hike on the Pinhoti Trail offers continuous views from both sides of the trail as it follows the ridge of Mill Creek Mountain. The Pinhoti Trail is a 325 mile trail that extends from Alabama into Georgia, and offers hikes through the prettiest parts of the Western section of the...

Paces Mill / Rottenwood Creek Trail in Metro Atlanta

One of our favorite running and walking trails in the metro Atlanta area is the Paces Mill / Rottenwood Creek trail. Following the Chattahoochee River for a quarter mile and then turning to follow Rottenwood Creek to its waterfalls near the end of the trail, this 3.6 mile paved trail blends urban signs of...

Hiking the Appalachian Trail – Jarrard Gap to Slaughter Creek

This 6 mile hike winds through the Blood Mountain Wilderness – one of the most beautiful hiking areas in North Georgia – along the famed Appalachian trail and beside Slaughter Creek.   The hike loops from Lake Winfield Scott on 3 fantastic trails –  along the Jarrard Trail to Jarrard Gap,...

Springer Mountain Loop – Hiking the Appalachian Trail

This hike in the Chattahoochee National Forest in North Georgia travels along two famous trails – the famous 2,100 Appalachian Trail, which extends from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Maine, as well as the 250 mile Benton MacKaye Trail, which runs along a rugged terrain in North Georgia and is named...

Cochran Shoals: Trails along the Chattahoochee River

Just outside the Atlanta perimeter is one of the most popular parks in the Chattahoochee National Recreation Area: Cochran Shoals. With 3.1 miles of wide graveled trails along the banks of the shoals of the Chattahoochee River, this is a popular running, walking and biking trail that’s convenient to...

Appalachian Trail – Three Forks to Long Creek Falls

The Appalachian Trail intersects Noontoola Creek just 4.3 miles from its beginning on Springer Mountain – and it’s from here that this out-and-back hike starts a journey on the Appalachian Trail to a beautiful, rushing waterfall in the Chattahoochee National Forest and through a delicate forest of...

Camping along Noontoola Creek – Chattahoochee National Forest at Three Forks

Along a rushing, rocky creek in the Chattahoochee National Forest in North Georgia just East of Ellijay, we found one of our favorite camping spaces in North Georgia.  The primitive campsites at Three Forks here along FR 58 are sheltered by beautiful forest of Rhodedendron, hemlock, poplar, and oak –...