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Avery Creek & Perry Cove via Avery Creek Road is a 4.1-mile out-and-back near Wolf Ford, NC. It climbs 477 ft and is mostly dirt. It scores 84/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.

Elevation

0 mi2,362 – 2,733 ft4.5 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Avery Creek Road 35.30801, -82.74507
Nearest town Wolf Ford, NC

Directions

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Avery Creek & Perry Cove via Avery Creek Road

4.1 mi · ▲ 477 ft · 1 hr 36 min

Elevation 2,362–2,734 ft

Out & Back

Trailhead: Avery Creek Road · 35.30801, -82.74507

Weather Sep 5: sunrise 7:07 AM · sunset 7:54 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on Avery Creek Road, heading NW.
  2. 100 ftTurn right, heading W.
  3. 0.1 miTurn right onto Perry Cove, heading NW.
  4. 50 ftBear left onto Avery Creek Road, heading NW.
  5. 0.4 miBear right onto Avery Creek, heading N.
  6. 0.8 miTurn right onto Buckhorn Gap, heading NW.
  7. 50 ftBear right onto Avery Creek, heading NW.
  8. 450 ftTurn right onto Buckhorn Gap, heading NW.
  9. 0.6 miBear left onto Twin Falls Trail, heading N.
  10. 50 ftContinue straight onto Buckhorn Gap, heading NW.
  11. 450 ftReach Perry Cove, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  12. 400 ftContinue straight onto Twin Falls Trail, heading N.
  13. 100 ftBear right onto Buckhorn Gap, heading NW.
  14. 0.6 miTurn left onto Avery Creek, heading S.
  15. 400 ftBear left onto Buckhorn Gap, heading S.
  16. 50 ftTurn left onto Avery Creek, heading S.
  17. 0.8 miBear left onto Avery Creek Road, heading S.
  18. 0.4 miBear right onto Perry Cove, heading SE.
  19. 50 ftTurn left onto Avery Creek Road, heading S.
  20. 0.1 miTurn right, heading SE.
  21. 50 ftArrive back at the trailhead.

Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.

Trail surface

71% dirt28% gravel1% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 7:07 AMSunset 7:54 PM

Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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