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Rocky Cove Road & ferngully via Bent Creek Trail

2.9 mi · ▲ 432 ft · 1 hr 11 min

Rocky Cove Road & ferngully via Bent Creek Trail is a 2.9-mile out-and-back near Bent Creek, NC. It climbs 432 ft, with sections as steep as 19% grade. It scores 39/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: green fringe.

Elevation

0 mi2,057 – 2,372 ft · steepest grade: 19%3.3 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 35.49614, -82.61003
Nearest town Bent Creek, NC
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Rocky Cove Road & ferngully via Bent Creek Trail

2.9 mi · ▲ 432 ft · 1 hr 11 min

Elevation 2,057–2,372 ft

Out & Back

Trailhead: 35.49614, -82.61003

Weather Sep 5: sunrise 7:06 AM · sunset 7:55 PM

Toilets at the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading SE.
  2. 0.2 miSharp right onto Running Cedar Road, heading SE.
  3. 0.1 miTurn right onto Bent Creek Trail, heading S.
  4. 0.3 miContinue straight onto Rocky Cove Road, heading NW.
  5. 0.4 miContinue straight onto ferngully, heading SE.
  6. 0.4 miContinue straight onto Hard Times Road, heading SW.
  7. 300 ftReach Rocky Cove Road, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  8. 300 ftContinue straight onto ferngully, heading SW.
  9. 0.4 miContinue straight onto Rocky Cove Road, heading NE.
  10. 0.4 miContinue straight onto Bent Creek Trail, heading NE.
  11. 0.3 miTurn left onto Running Cedar Road, heading NW.
  12. 0.1 miSharp left, heading SE.
  13. 0.2 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/rocky-cove-road-ferngully-out-back-5-km

Trail surface

48% gravel12% dirt40% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 7:06 AMSunset 7:55 PM

Good to know

  • Toilets at the trailhead
  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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