Camp Rock Road via Curtis Creek Road is a 13-mile out-and-back near Busick, NC. It climbs 2,088 ft, with sections as steep as 16% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 84/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.
Elevation
0 mi3,002 – 4,052 ft · steepest grade: 16%13.1 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Mount Mitchell Trailhead 35.75104, -82.22006
Nearest town Busick, NC
Directions
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Camp Rock Road via Curtis Creek Road
13 mi · ▲ 2,088 ft · 5 hr 23 min
Elevation 3,002–4,051 ft
Out & Back
Trailhead: Mount Mitchell Trailhead · 35.75104, -82.22006
Weather Sep 5: sunrise 7:05 AM · sunset 7:52 PM
Toilets at the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start on Upper River Loop, heading S.
- 0.3 miBear left onto Mountains-to-Sea Trail, heading NE.
- 1.7 miTurn right onto Neals Creek Road, heading NE.
- 3.1 miTurn left onto Camp Rock Road, heading NW.
- 1.5 miReach Camp Rock Road, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 1.5 miTurn right onto Curtis Creek Road, heading SE.
- 3.1 miTurn left onto Mountains-to-Sea Trail, heading SW.
- 1.7 miBear right onto Upper River Loop, heading SW.
- 0.2 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
65% dirt35% unspecified
Weather
Sunrise 7:05 AMSunset 7:52 PM
Good to know
- Toilets at the trailhead
- Parking lot at the trailhead
More from Mount Mitchell Trailhead Trailhead
- Setrock Creek Falls–Briar Bottom Trail, 3 sights 3.1 mi · ▲ 231 ft
- South River Loop Loop 3.2 mi · ▲ 406 ft
- Mount Mitchell Trail 3.5 mi · ▲ 1,238 ft
- Green Knob–Green Knob Trail, 3 sights 5.6 mi · ▲ 2,399 ft
- Curtis Creek Road 8.8 mi · ▲ 1,313 ft
- Licklog Road via Curtis Creek Road 10.9 mi · ▲ 1,457 ft
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