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Bear Farm Road–Sheep Rock, 3 sights is a 4.6-mile out-and-back near Beaverdam, NC. It climbs 1,779 ft, with sections as steep as 37% grade. It scores 77/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.

Elevation

0 mi2,372 – 3,416 ft · steepest grade: 37%4.6 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 35.48898, -82.67009
Nearest town Beaverdam, NC

Directions

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Bear Farm Road–Sheep Rock, 3 sights

4.6 mi · ▲ 1,779 ft · 2 hr 25 min

Elevation 2,374–3,415 ft

Out & Back

Trailhead: 35.48898, -82.67009

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

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading SE.
  2. 0.9 miTurn right onto brown knob trail, heading NW.
  3. 1 miSharp right onto Sheep Rock, heading NW.
  4. 0.2 miTurn right onto Bear Farm Road, heading NE.
  5. 0.1 miReach brown knob trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  6. 0.1 miTurn left onto Sheep Rock, heading SE.
  7. 0.2 miSharp left onto brown knob trail, heading N.
  8. 1 miTurn left, heading E.
  9. 0.9 miArrive back at the trailhead.

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

Trail surface

10% dirt90% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 7:07 AMSunset 7:54 PM

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