Hikes near Elk Mountain, North Carolina
Ambleway maps 665 hikes within 60 miles of Elk Mountain. The wildest is Tunnel Bypass Trail & Whiteoak Branch Trail via Lakeshore Trail at 97% wild, 54 miles out in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Nothing within 5 miles of the centre scores as wild; the nearest that does is Bradley Creek Road–Bradley Creek Trail Loop, 7 sights, 21 miles out.
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Hikes
A short drive · 5–25 miles
Green Knob Overlook (MP 350.4)–Laurel Log Branch Trail, 3 sights
22 mi away · 4.4 mi · ▲ 2,203 ft
Bradley Creek Road–Bradley Creek Trail Loop, 7 sights
21 mi away · 14.8 mi · ▲ 2,045 ft
Wagon Road Gap via South Mills River Road
22 mi away · 4.1 mi · ▲ 706 ft
Art Loeb Trail & Little East Fork Trail
24 mi away · 12.7 mi · ▲ 2,386 ft
Cherry Creek Trail
23 mi away · 3.5 mi · ▲ 1,072 ft
Shining Rock–Little East Fork Trail, 3 sights
24 mi away · 10.9 mi · ▲ 2,630 ft
Mackey Mountain–Former Mackey Mountain Trail (Closed), 6 sights
22 mi away · 14.8 mi · ▲ 4,670 ft
Lemon Gap & Garenflo Gap via Appalachian Trail
21 mi away · 15.5 mi · ▲ 4,669 ft
Worth the drive · 25–60 miles
Tunnel Bypass Trail & Whiteoak Branch Trail via Lakeshore Trail
54 mi away · 7.6 mi · ▲ 1,680 ft
Pretty Hollow Gap & Pretty Hollow Gap Trail
29 mi away · 10.3 mi · ▲ 2,385 ft
North Harper Creek Trail & North Harper Shortcut
51 mi away · 5.5 mi · ▲ 637 ft
Enloe Creek Trail via Hughes Ridge Trail
35 mi away · 15.5 mi · ▲ 4,316 ft
Sarvis Cove Sunset Point–Chestnutlog Gap, 5 sights
32 mi away · 11.4 mi · ▲ 3,944 ft
Mountains-to-Sea Trail–Rich Cove Road Loop, 3 sights
44 mi away · 2.1 mi · ▲ 530 ft
Cathedral Falls–Spence Ridge Trail, 3 sights
44 mi away · 4.4 mi · ▲ 1,014 ft
Devil's Cellar Overlook–Mountains-to-Sea Trail/ Table Rock Gap, 3 sights
44 mi away · 4.6 mi · ▲ 1,167 ft
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Richmond Hill Trails
1 mi away · 2 mi · ▲ 177 ft
Goldview Knob–Appalachian Village Sunset Point, 3 summits
2 mi away · 1.9 mi · ▲ 329 ft
Beaver Lake via Perimeter Trail
2 mi away · 4 mi · ▲ 0 ft
UNCA Urban Forest & Reed Creek Greenway
3 mi away · 1.5 mi · ▲ 59 ft
French Broad River Greenway West
4 mi away · 2.9 mi · ▲ 0 ft