Barnett Branch Trail & Buck Spring Trail via Mountains-to-Sea Trail is an 11-mile out-and-back near Wolf Ford, NC. It climbs 1,148 ft, with sections as steep as 20% grade, and is mostly gravel. It scores 46/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: green fringe.
Elevation
0 mi3,114 – 3,799 ft · steepest grade: 20%11.2 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Yellow Gap Road 35.38334, -82.71496
Nearest town Wolf Ford, NC
Directions
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Barnett Branch Trail & Buck Spring Trail via Mountains-to-Sea Trail
11 mi · ▲ 1,148 ft · 4 hr 14 min
Elevation 3,113–3,799 ft
Out & Back
Trailhead: Yellow Gap Road · 35.38334, -82.71496
Weather Sep 5: sunrise 7:06 AM · sunset 7:56 PM
Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start on Yellow Gap Road, heading SW.
- 3.9 miSharp right onto Barnett Branch Trail, heading N.
- 0.6 miSharp left onto Mountains-to-Sea Trail, heading SW.
- 0.1 miSharp left onto Buck Spring Trail, heading SE.
- 0.9 miReach Barnett Branch Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.9 miSharp right onto Mountains-to-Sea Trail, heading E.
- 0.1 miSharp right onto Barnett Branch Trail, heading NE.
- 0.6 miSharp left onto Yellow Gap Road, heading S.
- 3.8 miArrive back at the trailhead.
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Trail surface
70% gravel14% dirt16% unspecified
Weather
Sunrise 7:06 AMSunset 7:56 PM
Good to know
- Parking lot at the trailhead
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