Fort Mountain State Park

48 Trails 46 POIs 2 Peaks 3 Campsites 7 Viewpoints
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Description

Fort Mountain State Park is a 3,712-acre (15.02 km2) Georgia state park located between Chatsworth and Ellijay on Fort Mountain. The state park was founded in 1938 and is named for an ancient 885-foot-long (270 m) rock wall located on the peak. Situated in the Chattahoochee National Forest, Fort Mountain State Park offers many outdoor activities, such as hiking, mountain biking, and horseback riding. There are 14 miles (23 km) of trails inside the park. The park is also known for its unique scenery, a mixture of both hardwood and pine forests and several blueberry thickets. In addition, the park contains a 17-acre (6.9 ha) mountain lake. Atop Fort Mountain itself is a tower constructed by members of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The picnic shelters in the park and the trails to the rock wall were also constructed by the CCC. The summit of a different mountain in the south-southwest part of the park contains a radio tower for Georgia Public Broadcasting, transmitting TV station WCLP-TV (now WNGH-TV) since 1967, and radio station WNGH-FM since about May 2008. The park is accessible via Woody Glenn Highway (Georgia 2 and Georgia 52).

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • 201
  • 301
  • 301 & 401
  • 301 & 403
  • 301 & 407
  • 301 & 410
  • 301 & Gahuti Trail
  • 302
  • 303
  • 400
  • 401
  • 403
  • 404
  • 405
  • 407
  • 408
  • 410
  • 412
  • Abandoned road
  • Big Rock Trail
  • CCC Stone Tower Trail
  • Campers Loop
  • Creek Connector
  • False trail
  • Gahuti
  • Gahuti & Big Rock Trails
  • Goldmine Creek Trail
  • Lake Trail
  • Mountain Crossing
  • North Stone Tower Trail
  • Pinhoti Connector Trail (Closed Road)
  • Stone Wall Trail
  • Upper Cabin Access
  • West Overlook Trail

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • Backcountry Campsite #2
  • Backcountry Campsite 3
  • Backcountry Campsite 4
  • CCC Stone Tower
  • Cohutta Mountain
  • Cool Springs Overlook
  • Cool Springs Overlook and Gahuti Trailhead parking
  • Fort Mountain
  • Gahuti
  • Lake Trail
  • Mill Creek Falls (2) 50
  • Mountain bike area parking
  • Waterfall viewpoint
  • West Overlook

Copyright

The PDF and JPG maps are released by Hikepack under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Aerial imagery available from the U.S. Geological Survey. Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©Thomson200 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fort_mountain,_Georgia_wall_2016.JPG CC0 (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en)