Green Top–Yellow Gap, 5 sights is a 4.9-mile out-and-back near Beaverdam, NC. The route passes Yellow Gap before reaching Green Top at the turnaround, 2.4 miles in. It climbs 1,840 ft, with sections as steep as 35% grade. It scores 75/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.
Elevation
0 mi2,372 – 3,790 ft · steepest grade: 35%4.9 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Bear Farm Road 35.48450, -82.68767
Nearest town Beaverdam, NC
Directions
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Green Top–Yellow Gap, 5 sights
4.9 mi · ▲ 1,840 ft · 2 hr 33 min
Elevation 2,374–3,791 ft
Out & Back
Trailhead: Bear Farm Road · 35.48450, -82.68767
Weather Sep 5: sunrise 7:07 AM · sunset 7:54 PM
- Start on Bear Farm Road, heading S.
- 0.1 miTurn left onto Sheep Rock, heading SE.
- 0.2 miSharp left onto brown knob trail, heading N.
- 1 miContinue straight onto Sheep Rock, heading SE.
- 0.4 miBear right onto Three Humps, heading S.
- 50 ftPass Yellow Gap.
- 0.7 miReach Green Top, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.7 miBear left onto Sheep Rock, heading NW.
- 0.4 miContinue straight onto brown knob trail, heading N.
- 1 miSharp right onto Sheep Rock, heading S.
- 0.2 miTurn right onto Bear Farm Road, heading NW.
- 0.1 miArrive back at the trailhead.
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Trail surface
25% dirt75% unspecified
Weather
Sunrise 7:07 AMSunset 7:54 PM
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