Middle Prong Wilderness

View Devils Courthouse (MP 422.4) & Devils Courthouse Trail via Mountains-to-Sea Trail

4.4 mi · ▲ 683 ft · 1 hr 48 min

View Devils Courthouse (MP 422.4) & Devils Courthouse Trail via Mountains-to-Sea Trail is a 4.4-mile out-and-back in Middle Prong Wilderness near Balsam Grove, NC. The route reaches View Devils Courthouse (MP 422.4) at the turnaround, 2.2 miles in. It climbs 683 ft, with sections as steep as 17% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 6/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi5,118 – 5,650 ft · steepest grade: 17%4.5 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Mountains-to-Sea Trail 35.30381, -82.90912
Nearest town Balsam Grove, NC

Directions

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View Devils Courthouse (MP 422.4) & Devils Courthouse Trail via Mountains-to-Sea Trail

4.4 mi · ▲ 683 ft · 1 hr 48 min

Elevation 5,119–5,650 ft

Out & Back · Middle Prong Wilderness

Trailhead: Mountains-to-Sea Trail · 35.30381, -82.90912

Weather Sep 5: sunrise 7:08 AM · sunset 7:55 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on Mountains-to-Sea Trail, heading N.
  2. 1.9 miTurn right, heading S.
  3. 0.1 miTurn right onto Devils Courthouse Trail, heading W.
  4. 0.3 miReach View Devils Courthouse (MP 422.4), then turn around and head back the way you came.
  5. 0.3 miTurn left, heading SE.
  6. 0.1 miTurn left onto Mountains-to-Sea Trail, heading N.
  7. 1.8 miArrive back at the trailhead.

Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.

Trail surface

79% dirt15% paved6% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 7:08 AMSunset 7:55 PM

Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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