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Beaver Dam Road (Red Trail)–Blue-Red Trail, 4 sights is a 6-mile out-and-back in Dawson Forest Wildlife Management Area near Barrettsville, GA. It climbs 692 ft, with sections as steep as 15% grade. It scores 79/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.

Elevation

0 mi1,027 – 1,293 ft · steepest grade: 15%6.2 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Powerline Road (Blue Trail) 34.37488, -84.13999
Nearest town Barrettsville, GA

Directions

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Beaver Dam Road (Red Trail)–Blue-Red Trail, 4 sights

6 mi · ▲ 692 ft · 2 hr 21 min

Elevation 1,026–1,293 ft

Out & Back · Dawson Forest Wildlife Management Area

Trailhead: Powerline Road (Blue Trail) · 34.37488, -84.13999

Weather Sep 6: sunrise 7:14 AM · sunset 7:58 PM

  1. Start on Powerline Road (Blue Trail), heading SW.
  2. 0.2 miBear left onto Blue-Red Trail, heading S.
  3. 1.6 miSharp left onto Beaver Dam Road (Red Trail), heading S.
  4. 0.4 miReach Blue-Red Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  5. 0.7 miContinue straight onto Red Trail, heading N.
  6. 2.2 miTurn right onto Powerline Road (Red Trail), heading NE.
  7. 0.8 miTurn left onto Powerline Road (Blue Trail), heading E.
  8. 0.1 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

28% dirt13% gravel59% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 7:14 AMSunset 7:58 PM

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