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

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading SE.
  2. 400 ftContinue straight onto Jarrard Gap Trail, heading S.
  3. 0.5 miBear right, heading SE.
  4. 150 ftTurn left, heading NE.
  5. 50 ftBear left onto Appalachian Trail, heading NE.
  6. 1.4 miBear right onto Freeman Trail, heading NE.
  7. 50 ftBear left onto Appalachian Trail, heading NE.
  8. 0.8 miTurn left onto Duncan Ridge Trail, heading N.
  9. 0.7 miTurn right onto Coosa Backcountry Trail, heading NW.
  10. 2.2 miTurn right onto Bear Hair Gap Trail / Coosa Backcountry Trail, heading N.
  11. 0.4 miReach Jarrard Gap Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  12. 0.4 miTurn left onto Coosa Backcountry Trail, heading S.
  13. 2.2 miTurn left onto Duncan Ridge Trail, heading NW.
  14. 0.7 miTurn right onto Appalachian Trail, heading N.
  15. 0.8 miBear right onto Freeman Trail, heading S.
  16. 50 ftBear left onto Appalachian Trail, heading S.
  17. 1.4 miBear right, heading NW.
  18. 50 ftTurn right, heading NW.
  19. 100 ftBear left onto Jarrard Gap Trail, heading S.
  20. 0.4 miArrive back at the trailhead.

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Weather

Sunrise 7:13 AMSunset 7:57 PM

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