Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Pretty Hollow Gap & Baxter Creek Trail
15.8 mi · ▲ 5,029 ft · 7 hr 47 min
Pretty Hollow Gap & Baxter Creek Trail is a 15.8-mile out-and-back in Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Crestmont, NC. The route reaches Pretty Hollow Gap at the turnaround, 7.9 miles in. It climbs 5,029 ft, with sections as steep as 19% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 92/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.
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Pretty Hollow Gap & Baxter Creek Trail
15.8 mi · ▲ 5,029 ft · 7 hr 47 min
Elevation 1,676–5,839 ft
Out & Back · Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Trailhead: Big Creek Horse Trailhead · 35.75392, -83.10811
Weather Sep 4: Clear, high 90°F / low 72° · precip 4% · wind 4 mph · sunrise 7:08 AM · sunset 7:57 PM
Toilets at the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start on Big Creek Group Camp, heading S.
- 0.2 miTurn left onto Big Creek Campground Loop Road, heading SE.
- 50 ftBear right onto Baxter Creek Trail, heading S.
- 7.7 miReach Pretty Hollow Gap, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 7.7 miBear left onto Big Creek Campground Loop Road, heading N.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Big Creek Group Camp, heading N.
- 0.1 miArrive back at the trailhead.
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- Toilets at the trailhead
- Parking lot at the trailhead
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