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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

  1. Start on Upper River Loop, heading S.
  2. 0.3 miBear left onto Mountains-to-Sea Trail, heading NE.
  3. 1.7 miTurn right onto Neals Creek Road, heading NE.
  4. 3.1 miTurn left onto Camp Rock Road, heading NW.
  5. 1.5 miReach Camp Rock Road, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  6. 1.5 miTurn right onto Curtis Creek Road, heading SE.
  7. 3.1 miTurn left onto Mountains-to-Sea Trail, heading SW.
  8. 1.7 miBear right onto Upper River Loop, heading SW.
  9. 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

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