Mitchell

Three McIntosh

Legend Creek Mount Mitchell State Park Trails

Branch Trails of the Black Mountains Use Ease Blaze Name Miles Branch 197 Ranger Station Mountain Quaters Road 3000 Including Trails of Mount Mitchell State Park Mount Mitchell 5.6

Trailer Camping Branch Green

Branch to Commissary Hill 1.5

Main School and the Pisgah National Forest Group Camping Wheeler Hills Circle

Creek Black Mountain Crest 11.3 Jacks Roland

Island

North Bailey Tent Camping East Longview Main to Mount Craig 1.0 Main Town Sqaure Crabtree Primative Camping Medical to Deep Gap 3.8 Crestview West Creek Campus Old Mitchell 2.0 Trailer Dump Station 19E Restaurant Swamp Burnsville Commissary 2.0

15-miles Double Asheville 34-miles Branch 19E Camp Alice 0.5 Picnic Area Micaville Balsam Nature Loop 0.7 Fork Loop Snack Bar Pine Micaville Campground 0.4

Visitor Center 197 3000

Scenic View Bolens 3000 Bearwallow Spruce Pine Pisgah National Forest Trails 7-miles Use Ease Blaze/# Name Miles Viewing Platform Bolens 161 Big Butt 5.6 Creek Statue Creek 177 Branch Woody Ridge 2.2 Waterfall Creek 178 Colbert Ridge 3.8

Creek

3000

Mine 3000 179 Black Mountain Crest 11.3 3000 3000 4000

George 182

3000 3000 Green Knob 3.2 RockPhipps Collecting Ray Lookout Tower Mine 186 Bald Knob Ridge 2.8 Ray Cane Mines 80 190 Mount Mitchell 5.6 Museum 3000 Road Road 190a Higgins Bald 1.3 Library Ayles 191 Buncombe Horse Range 17.0 Medical Clinic Bolens Pyramid Bowditch Rock 4908’ Toe River 191a Big Tom Gap 0.4 Gas Station 3000 Bolens 192 Creek Blue Devil’s Den Nature Loop 0.7 Road Campground

Parking Bluerock Knob 195

4859’ Roaring Fork Falls 0.7

4000

4000 Halls

3000 Overlook 3000 Patience 197 Setrock Creek Falls 0.2 Bolens 3 Creek Park Chapel 4 200 Upper River Loop 3.7 7 Mile Marker Blue Road 200a Tunnel Rock Lower River Loop 2.5 4000 1000-ft Contour Road National Park Service Trails Creek Use Ease Blaze Name Miles 3000

200-ft Contour Pisgah Rock

19E US Highway 179 Crabtree Falls 2.6

4000

4.6-miles 4000 3000

128 NC Highway 3000 National Blue 5000 5000 NC State Trail in the Black Mountains

Tudy River Road Use Ease Blaze Name Miles Blue Ridge Parkway 4000 Creek Forest Mountains-to-Sea Trail 22.9 Laurel NC Creek 472 National Forest Road Upper Lower Branch Browns Walker Knob to NC128 4.6

Gate (Closed Jan-Apr) State Creek Road Browns

6000 6000 Brown Moody Mtn Grindsta NC128 to Mount Mitchell 4.5 Paved Road Parks Celo Knob Celo 197 (Future) 4660’ 6327’ Creek Mount Mitchell to BMCG 5.8 Gravel Road Grassy Knob Cane Spout BMCG to FS2074 2.0 5490’ Percys Peak Mount Mitchell Roaring FS2074 to NC80 6.0 Scenic By-Way Pensacola Fork Isom 6197’ Sharptop Mine Road Cattail Cattail Horse 4751’ Rock 2.2-miles Use Hiker Horse Blue Knob 5000 Rocky Fork 177 White Ease Easy Moderate Dicult 4911’ Road Gibbs Mtn Road

Chapel

3000 3000 Oak 4000 6224’ Creek Road Approximate Distance3000 Between Trail Junctions Fork Shuford Creek Haney Halls 6000 4.6-miles Shuford White Rocky North Creek Mile Creek Seven

Ridge

4000 Oak 4000 4000 3000 Creek 3000 Road Branch Road Road

Oak Creek River

4000 4000 Whiteoak White

Road 179 Dovers

5000 Creek

5000 2.7-miles 5000 Ogle Knob Little 5440’ Pile

South Toe

3000 3000 Shingle Creek

197 4000 4000 Locust 80 Winter Star Whiteoak NC Deer Mtn 6203’ 6112’ 6000 Creek State 2.6-miles CTF Parks Fork South Creek Road (Future) Deep Gap Deep Gap Crabtree Falls 4000 Cane River Gap Primitive Camping 3.8-miles Colbert 178 Hamrick Campground 3 179 4 2.3-miles Creek Road 0 Branch

Falling Water Creek 5000 Bearwallow Knob 5000 Carolina Hemlocks

5085’ Potato Hill Colberts Creek 3000 3000 Campground 14-miles

Shateen Branch 6475’ Spruce Pine

6000 6000

Wilson 3 19-miles Crabtree 4

Cattail Peak 3000 Rock

Asheville 30-miles Road 1 5000 5000 River 6600’ Creek Bee 5000 Middle Creek Creek Clear Creek

4000 Creek Big Flat Spring Knob Balsam Cone 5690’ Ogle 6611’ Rock 3 4 3000 Big Butt Ewart Timber Creek 2 Pisgah (Yeates Knob) 0.4-miles Maple Camp Bald 5930’ 191a Big 5613’ Black Mountains 161 Mitchell National 4000 191 Overlook 5.6-miles 5000

Indian Cane Big Tom 6.2-miles 6000 Fork 6000 Thee Poplar 6581’ Prong Forest 3 Mount Craig 4 Creek Creek 80 3 6648’ Armstrong Little Butt Prong

3000 5000

5620’ 5000 Wilson Boundary Creek 1.5-miles Still Fork Left 3 Creek Creek 3000 4 4000 (No Trespassing) 4 Beech Busick Burnsville Buck Creek Gap Creek 18-miles Marion Point Misery 4000 Busick Right 16-miles Road Work

5715’ Center 195

Mount Mitchell 0.3-miles Rock Road Dovers 6000

6000 River Roaring 4000 4000 5000 6684’ 80 Nursery 2.3-miles Toe Raven 0.6-miles Twin Tunnels Buck

5000 191 Branch

5000 Mount 5000 3000

South 3

6000 0.5-miles 6000 4

Pisgah Black 5 Creek 472 Fork

Mitchell 0.2-miles 1.2-miles

5000 5000 Mountain

3000 1.9-miles 3000 0.5-miles 190 3 National Creek Creek 0.9-miles 190 Campground 4 State Setrock 190a 6 Singecat Ridge 191 190 192 Overlook 1.3-miles 1.3-miles Forest Lower Commissary Hill 200a 3000 Park Primitive Camping Creek Balsam Gap Sea 3 Walker Knob 197 6 1.4-miles 0 Overlook Mount Hallback 1.2-miles 6320’ Briar Bottom Group Pisgah 5.3-miles 3.2-miles Campground 17-miles

Blue 191 4000 5000 Grassy National 3 200 4 Middle 2074 Neals 7 Forest 1.9-miles 200 Creek 2000 3 2.0-miles 5 1.6-miles 6000 Mount Gibbes 128 Knob

9 4000 3 Blackstock Knob Creek 3

6 6571’ Fork Creek 4

5000 5000 2000 8 2000 1 6325’ Cove Hewat Clingmans Peak Branch Overlook 4.6-miles South 6520’ Lost Upper River 482 5000 3 Fork 5 Potato Knob Big 8 Curtis Valley 472 Curtis 6400’ Creek 3 Overlook 6000 Upper 182 4 3 3 3.2-miles 9 Bear 6 5 191 View Mount 2 Asheville Watershed Rough 7 4.6-miles Toe Mitchell Overlook Ridge Right 4000 Tunnel Drive Creek Asheville 3 Toe 26-miles (No Trespassing) 5000 5 6 Prong River 3 South 5 Laurel Knob 0 Overlook Branch Green Knob Licklog 5046’ Ridge Junction Green Knob Lookout 4000 Overlook

South Branch 3000 3000 4000 3 4000 3 5 5 Big 5 1 Camp 186 Green Knob 2.8-miles Overlook Rock North South Contact Information River Branch 4000 Prong Toe 3 Appalachian Ranger District (828) 689-9694 3 5 Left 5 2 Mount Mitchell State Park (828) 675-4611

4000 4 Laurel Fork Bald Knob Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center (828) 298-5330

Overlook Newberry Pinnacle Yancey County Vistor Center (828) 682-7413 Right 5665’

3

Fork Log 3000 5000 5 Emergency 3000 911 3

4000 Yancey Medical Clinic (828) 682-0200 Branch Spruce Pine Regional Hospital (828) 765-4201 Designed Gratis By Creek 3000 Yancey County Sheri ’s Oce (828) 682-2124 0 0.5 1 2 Area of Main Map Burnsville Police Department (828) 682-4683 Miles Burnsville Spruce Pine Mount EXIT 9 Mitchell 80 State Park 128 Asheville Marion

EXIT 72 EXIT 86

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