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Coopers Creek Wildlife Management Area

Shope Gap Trail & Yellow Mountain Trail via Duncan Ridge Road

6.9 mi · ▲ 1,759 ft · 3 hr 11 min

Shope Gap Trail & Yellow Mountain Trail via Duncan Ridge Road is a 6.9-mile out-and-back in Coopers Creek Wildlife Management Area near Baxter, GA. It climbs 1,759 ft, with sections as steep as 30% grade. It scores 84/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.

Elevation

0 mi2,208 – 3,015 ft · steepest grade: 30%7.8 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 34.77317, -84.06280
Nearest town Baxter, GA
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Shope Gap Trail & Yellow Mountain Trail via Duncan Ridge Road

6.9 mi · ▲ 1,759 ft · 3 hr 11 min

Elevation 2,206–3,016 ft

Out & Back · Coopers Creek Wildlife Management Area

Trailhead: 34.77317, -84.06280

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

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading W.
  2. 0.2 miTurn left onto Duncan Ridge Road, heading SE.
  3. 0.6 miContinue straight onto Mill Shoals Trail, heading E.
  4. 50 ftContinue straight onto Duncan Ridge Road, heading NE.
  5. 350 ftBear right onto Mill Shoals Trail, heading E.
  6. 250 ftContinue straight onto Duncan Ridge Road, heading NE.
  7. 100 ftTurn right onto Mill Shoals Trail, heading N.
  8. 150 ftContinue straight onto Duncan Ridge Road, heading N.
  9. 50 ftContinue straight onto Mill Shoals Trail, heading N.
  10. 1 miTurn left onto Yellow Mountain Trail, heading S.
  11. 1.5 miReach Shope Gap Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  12. 1.5 miTurn right onto Shope Gap Trail, heading W.
  13. 1 miContinue straight onto Duncan Ridge Road, heading NE.
  14. 100 ftContinue straight onto Mill Shoals Trail, heading NE.
  15. 100 ftTurn left onto Duncan Ridge Road, heading NE.
  16. 100 ftContinue straight onto Mill Shoals Trail, heading N.
  17. 300 ftBear left onto Duncan Ridge Road, heading SW.
  18. 350 ftContinue straight onto Mill Shoals Trail, heading NW.
  19. 50 ftContinue straight onto Duncan Ridge Road, heading NW.
  20. 0.6 miTurn right, heading S.
  21. 0.1 miArrive back at the trailhead.

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Trail map, photos and weather for this hike: www.ambleway.com/hikes/shope-gap-trail-yellow-mountain-trail-out-back-11-km

Trail surface

25% gravel5% dirt70% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 7:14 AMSunset 7:58 PM

Sunset

The best sunset spot on this hike is 2.2 mi in (~75 min). Leave by 6:22 PM for the 7:58 PM sunset. Back at your car by 9:10 PM, after dark — bring a headlamp.

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