Blood Mountain Wilderness
59 Trails
225 POIs
15 Peaks
32 Campsites
11 Viewpoints
Description
The Blood Mountain Wilderness was designated in 1991 and currently consists of 7,800 acres (32 km2). The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in Lumpkin County and Union County, Georgia. The Wilderness is managed by the United States Forest Service and is part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. In November, 1999, three fires burned through parts of the Blood Mountain Wilderness and the Chatahoochee National Forest. Fire crews came from across the nation to help fight the fires. The highest elevation in the Blood Mountain Wilderness is the 4,458-foot (1,359 m) peak of Blood Mountain. The Wilderness includes 10.75 miles (17.30 km) of the Appalachian Trail, which may be the most heavily used portion of the AT. The Blood Mountain Wilderness is the first wilderness encountered on the AT after its starting point on Springer Mountain. Due to conflicts with black bears, in 2012 the Forest Service implemented a seasonal requirement for all overnight campers to carry bear-resistant canisters. The requirement goes into effect every year, from March 1 to June 1, and it encompasses all areas within quarter mile of the AT, from Jarrard Gap to Neels Gap.
Trails in the Hikepack map
- Abandoned road
- Appalachian Trail
- Appalachian Trail (GA)
- Authorized Vehicles Only
- Bear Hair Gap Trail
- Blue Mountain Spring Road
- Byron Herbert Reece
- Calf Stomp Road
- Camp Trail
- Camping
- Campsite
- Closed to Vehicles
- Coosa Backcountry
- Coosa Backcountry / Duncan Ridge Trail
- Coosa Backcountry Trail
- Corbin Crossing
- Crown Mountain Road
- DeSoto Falls Trail
- Dockery Lake
- Duncan Ridge Road
- Duncan Ridge Trail
- FS 34
- Ford
- Freeman
- Jarrard Gap Trail
- Lake Winfield Scott
- Lakeshore
- Lower Blood Mountain Creek Falls
- Mountain Crossing
- Not maintained
- Observation Deck
- Outlook Trail
- Parking
- Privy
- Slaughter Creek Road access
- Slaughter Creek Trail
- Sosebee Cove
- Sosebee Cove Connector
- Water
- Waters Creek Road
- West Wolf Creek Road
- Woods Hole Shelter Spur
Attractions in the Hikepack map
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- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 2
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 3
- 30
- 33
- 35
- 36
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- Appalachian Trail
- Baker Mountain
- Big Cedar Mountain
- Blood Mountain
- Blood Mountain Creek Falls
- Blood Mountain Shelter
- Brushy Knob
- Bryon Reece Trailhead Parking
- Buck Knob
- Burnett Field Mountain
- Camp Trail
- Cascades
- Cedar Mountain
- Chestatee Overlook
- Columbia Mountain
- Crow Mountain
- DeSoto Falls
- DeSoto Falls Campground
- DeSoto Falls Trail
- Dockery Lake Campground
- Dockery Lake Trail parking
- Gaddis Mountain
- Glass Mine Top
- Granny Top
- Jacobs Knob
- Jarrard Gap Campsite
- Jarrard Gap Trail
- John B. Derden CCC Museum
- Lake Winfield Scott
- Lake Winfield Scott Campground
- Lakeshore
- Lower DeSoto Falls
- Miller Gap Campsite
- Miller Top
- Mountain Crossings-Frogtown
- Neels Gap
- No Tresspassing. Keep Out
- Nottely Falls
- Pavilion/Theatre
- Picnic Shelter #1
- Picnic Shelter #2
- Pigeon Roost
- Preacher's Rock
- Privy
- Road Closed
- Rocky Mountain
- Sheriff Knob
- Slaughter Creek Trail
- Slaughter Mountain
- Steel Trap Knob
- Trailhead parking
- Turkey Stamp
- Upper DeSoto Falls
- Waterfall
- Woods Hole Shelter
- Woody Gap
- Yellow Mountain
Copyright
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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 ©Chris Teasdale https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blood_Mountain_CCC_Shelter.JPG CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
