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Coopers Creek Wildlife Management Area

Cooper Creek Trail & Duncan Ridge Road

3.5 mi · ▲ 709 ft · 1 hr 31 min

Cooper Creek Trail & Duncan Ridge Road is a 3.5-mile out-and-back in Coopers Creek Wildlife Management Area near Baxter, GA. It climbs 709 ft, with sections as steep as 17% grade. It scores 89/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.

Elevation

0 mi2,208 – 2,805 ft · steepest grade: 17%3.6 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Duncan Ridge Road 34.77326, -84.06583
Nearest town Baxter, GA
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Cooper Creek Trail & Duncan Ridge Road

3.5 mi · ▲ 709 ft · 1 hr 31 min

Elevation 2,206–2,804 ft

Out & Back · Coopers Creek Wildlife Management Area

Trailhead: Duncan Ridge Road · 34.77326, -84.06583

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

  1. Start on Duncan Ridge Road, heading SE.
  2. 0.6 miContinue straight onto Mill Shoals Trail, heading E.
  3. 0.7 miSharp left onto Cooper Creek Trail, heading S.
  4. 0.4 miReach Duncan Ridge Road, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  5. 0.4 miSharp right onto Mill Shoals Trail, heading N.
  6. 0.7 miContinue straight onto Duncan Ridge Road, heading NE.
  7. 0.6 miArrive back at the trailhead.

Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.

Trail map, photos and weather for this hike: www.ambleway.com/hikes/cooper-creek-trail-duncan-ridge-road-out-back-6-km

Trail surface

37% gravel63% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 7:14 AMSunset 7:58 PM

Sunset

The best sunset spot on this hike is 1.4 mi in (~53 min). Leave by 6:45 PM for the 7:58 PM sunset. Back at your car by 8:49 PM, after dark — bring a headlamp.

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