Blue Ridge Wildlife Management Area
Ball Mountain via Benton MacKaye Trail
3 mi · ▲ 663 ft · 1 hr 20 min
Ball Mountain via Benton MacKaye Trail is a 3-mile out-and-back in Blue Ridge Wildlife Management Area near Three Forks, GA. The route reaches Ball Mountain at the turnaround, 1.5 miles in. It climbs 663 ft, with sections as steep as 16% grade. It scores 81/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.
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Ball Mountain via Benton MacKaye Trail
3 mi · ▲ 663 ft · 1 hr 20 min
Elevation 3,375–3,737 ft
Out & Back · Blue Ridge Wildlife Management Area
Trailhead: Appalachian Trail · 34.63777, -84.19503
Weather Sep 6: sunrise 7:14 AM · sunset 7:58 PM
Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start on Appalachian Trail, heading SW.
- 0.7 miSharp left onto Benton MacKaye Trail, heading N.
- 0.8 miReach Ball Mountain, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.8 miSharp right onto Appalachian Trail, heading NW.
- 0.7 miArrive back at the trailhead.
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- Parking lot at the trailhead
More from Appalachian Trail Trailhead
- Rich Mountain via Appalachian Trail 1.7 mi · ▲ 227 ft
- Springer Mountain–Appalachian Approach Trail, 3 sights 3.7 mi · ▲ 1,445 ft
- Springer Mountain–Ball Mountain, 4 summits 4.9 mi · ▲ 891 ft
- Rich Mountain & Appalachian Trail 5.8 mi · ▲ 966 ft
- Rich Mountain–Appalachian and Benton MacKaye Trail, 3 sights 15.2 mi · ▲ 2,079 ft
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