Blood Mountain Wilderness
Bear Hair Gap Trail / Coosa Backcountry Trail–Coosa Backcountry Trail, 5 sights
12 mi · ▲ 3,267 ft · 5 hr 38 min
Bear Hair Gap Trail / Coosa Backcountry Trail–Coosa Backcountry Trail, 5 sights is a 12-mile out-and-back in Blood Mountain Wilderness near Suches, GA. It climbs 3,267 ft, with sections as steep as 21% grade. It scores 48/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: green fringe.
Elevation
0 mi2,320 – 4,141 ft · steepest grade: 21%12.6 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Unnamed 34.73133, -83.97123
Nearest town Suches, GA
Directions
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Bear Hair Gap Trail / Coosa Backcountry Trail–Coosa Backcountry Trail, 5 sights
12 mi · ▲ 3,267 ft · 5 hr 38 min
Elevation 2,320–4,141 ft
Out & Back · Blood Mountain Wilderness
Trailhead: 34.73133, -83.97123
Weather Sep 6: sunrise 7:13 AM · sunset 7:57 PM
- Start at the trailhead, heading SE.
- 400 ftContinue straight onto Jarrard Gap Trail, heading S.
- 0.5 miBear right, heading SE.
- 150 ftTurn left, heading NE.
- 50 ftBear left onto Appalachian Trail, heading NE.
- 1.4 miBear right onto Freeman Trail, heading NE.
- 50 ftBear left onto Appalachian Trail, heading NE.
- 0.8 miTurn left onto Duncan Ridge Trail, heading N.
- 0.7 miTurn right onto Coosa Backcountry Trail, heading NW.
- 2.2 miTurn right onto Bear Hair Gap Trail / Coosa Backcountry Trail, heading N.
- 0.4 miReach Jarrard Gap Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.4 miTurn left onto Coosa Backcountry Trail, heading S.
- 2.2 miTurn left onto Duncan Ridge Trail, heading NW.
- 0.7 miTurn right onto Appalachian Trail, heading N.
- 0.8 miBear right onto Freeman Trail, heading S.
- 50 ftBear left onto Appalachian Trail, heading S.
- 1.4 miBear right, heading NW.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading NW.
- 100 ftBear left onto Jarrard Gap Trail, heading S.
- 0.4 miArrive back at the trailhead.
Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.
Weather
Sunrise 7:13 AMSunset 7:57 PM
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