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Coopers Creek Wildlife Management Area

Hickory Knob Trail & Mill Shoals Trail via Duncan Ridge Road

6 mi · ▲ 2,096 ft · 3 hr 3 min

Hickory Knob Trail & Mill Shoals Trail via Duncan Ridge Road is a 6-mile out-and-back in Coopers Creek Wildlife Management Area near Baxter, GA. It climbs 2,096 ft, with sections as steep as 38% grade. It scores 84/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.

Elevation

0 mi2,182 – 2,986 ft · steepest grade: 38%6.7 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Mill Shoals Trail 34.76221, -84.06735
Nearest town Baxter, GA
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Hickory Knob Trail & Mill Shoals Trail via Duncan Ridge Road

6 mi · ▲ 2,096 ft · 3 hr 3 min

Elevation 2,180–2,987 ft

Out & Back · Coopers Creek Wildlife Management Area

Trailhead: Mill Shoals Trail · 34.76221, -84.06735

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

Toilets at the trailhead

  1. Start on Mill Shoals Trail, heading N.
  2. 1.4 miSharp right onto Duncan Ridge Road, heading NE.
  3. 300 ftBear right onto Mill Shoals Trail, heading E.
  4. 300 ftContinue straight onto Duncan Ridge Road, heading NE.
  5. 100 ftTurn right onto Mill Shoals Trail, heading N.
  6. 150 ftContinue straight onto Duncan Ridge Road, heading N.
  7. 50 ftContinue straight onto Mill Shoals Trail, heading N.
  8. 0.2 miSharp left onto Hickory Knob Trail, heading E.
  9. 1.2 miReach Mill Shoals Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  10. 1.2 miSharp right onto Mill Shoals Trail, heading SE.
  11. 0.2 miContinue straight onto Duncan Ridge Road, heading SE.
  12. 100 ftContinue straight onto Mill Shoals Trail, heading SW.
  13. 100 ftTurn left onto Duncan Ridge Road, heading S.
  14. 100 ftContinue straight onto Mill Shoals Trail, heading E.
  15. 300 ftBear left onto Duncan Ridge Road, heading E.
  16. 350 ftSharp left onto Mill Shoals Trail, heading SW.
  17. 1.4 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/hickory-knob-trail-mill-shoals-trail-out-back

Trail surface

38% dirt10% gravel52% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 7:14 AMSunset 7:58 PM

Sunset

The best sunset spot on this hike is 2.0 mi in (~67 min). Leave by 6:31 PM for the 7:58 PM sunset. Back at your car by 9:12 PM, after dark — bring a headlamp.

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