Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Cemetary Trail & Deep Low Gap Trail
11 mi · ▲ 2,706 ft · 5 hr 1 min
Cemetary Trail & Deep Low Gap Trail is an 11-mile out-and-back in Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Birdtown, NC. It climbs 2,706 ft, with sections as steep as 18% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 87/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.
Elevation
0 mi2,408 – 3,609 ft · steepest grade: 18%11.1 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Unnamed 35.49198, -83.37111
Nearest town Birdtown, NC
Directions
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Cemetary Trail & Deep Low Gap Trail
11 mi · ▲ 2,706 ft · 5 hr 1 min
Elevation 2,407–3,608 ft
Out & Back · Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Trailhead: 35.49198, -83.37111
Weather Sep 5: sunrise 7:09 AM · sunset 7:58 PM
- Start at the trailhead, heading NE.
- 0.7 miContinue straight onto Deep Low Gap Trail, heading E.
- 2.3 miContinue straight onto Mingus Creek Trail, heading SE.
- 1.7 miSharp left onto Cemetary Trail, heading NW.
- 0.8 miReach Deep Low Gap Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.8 miSharp right onto Mingus Creek Trail, heading SW.
- 1.7 miContinue straight onto Deep Low Gap Trail, heading W.
- 3 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
100% dirt
Weather
Sunrise 7:09 AMSunset 7:58 PM
More from this trailhead
- Deep Low Gap Trail 7.7 mi · ▲ 2,327 ft
- Deep Low Gap Trail 9 mi · ▲ 2,616 ft
- Deep Low Gap Trail 10.3 mi · ▲ 2,801 ft
- Deep Low Gap Trail 11 mi · ▲ 2,981 ft
- Mingus Creek Trail via Deep Low Gap Trail 12.3 mi · ▲ 2,934 ft
- Thomas Divide Trail 13 mi · ▲ 3,645 ft
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