North Georgia

[ylwjacket]

Had a chance to get out to the wilderness the past few days and do some truck stuff. It was muddy in spots since it rained for about 48 straight hours.

Took one unmaintained road to the top of a mountain at about 3800 ft. Pics don't do it justice. It was barely one vehicle wide, and kinda straight up in a couple places. Overnight, fog rolled in above about 2000 ft, and our campsite was at 3200.

Driving was fun, camping not as much.

Anyways, a few pics.

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[Brett Fields]

..... Driving was fun, camping not as much.

I dunno.... looks pretty good to me.
Any opportunity to get out is a good opportunity.

 

[ylwjacket]

I dunno.... looks pretty good to me.
Any opportunity to get out is a good opportunity.

yeah, it definitely was

 

[ylwjacket]

here's another little trail pic

 

[Doc]

here's another little trail pic

Funny thing, I was stationed at Warner Robbin’s last 6 months of my enlistment, We used to run the trails out there. I got stuck in red clay on a logging trail in my Chevy 4wd truck. My friend tried to pull me out with his Dodge 4wd. And he got stuck too. There was a D8 on the side of the road, he didn’t blink an eye, went over, started it up, came over and pulled us out. Just dumb luck ..

 

[ChiefQM]

Had a chance to get out to the wilderness the past few days and do some truck stuff. It was muddy in spots since it rained for about 48 straight hours.

Took one unmaintained road to the top of a mountain at about 3800 ft. Pics don't do it justice. It was barely one vehicle wide, and kinda straight up in a couple places. Overnight, fog rolled in above about 2000 ft, and our campsite was at 3200.

Driving was fun, camping not as much.

Anyways, a few pics.

That's a good looking truck! Where did you go? I took mine up US 129 shortly after I bought it and camped at Vogel SP. I didn't hit any trails but drove it hard on some of the back roads, finding myself in the midst of some rally racers. I kept up for awhile, shifting manually in Sport mode as I maneuvered the curves. What a rush! I finally pulled over to let the racers go by and got a lot of thumbs ups as they passed me.

 

[ylwjacket]

That's a good looking truck! Where did you go? I took mine up US 129 shortly after I bought it and camped at Vogel SP. I didn't hit any trails but drove it hard on some of the back roads, finding myself in the midst of some rally racers. I kept up for awhile, shifting manually in Sport mode as I maneuvered the curves. What a rush! I finally pulled over to let the racers go by and got a lot of thumbs ups as they passed me.

Thanks! Looks like we have the same truck!

The campsite was Lake Conasauga. It's only open til the end of Oct, then opens up again in March or April. The roads were around there - exploring in Cohutta wilderness. Some of those roads are closed Jan - Mar. It's about 2 hours from you.

I see you're in Hiram - I'm just up the road in NW Paulding. Look up a place called Johns Mountain. It's a bit NW of Adairsville, so it's pretty close. It's an easy gravel road drive, but takes you right to the top of Johns Mountain, which is about 1000 ft higher than everything around it. You get a great look at the hills and valleys from there. As a bonus, you can stop by Buc-ee's on the way to grab some jerky.

If you haven't, download the USFS Visitor Map app. I also use the Gaia GPS app, and there is some good info on trails to ride on Trails Offroad.

It's a great time of year to go riding around up there. There was lots of color, but still a few weeks away from peak.

That view of the mountains was at a place called Mountaintown Overlook.

 

[ylwjacket]

here's a few more:

back in the summer. same campsite at the lake.

same trip, toting kayaks. i don't know that this overlook is named, it just surprises you as you come around a sharp curve in the forest, and there it is.

McKeown Falls at the top of Johns Mountain. Gotta hike up there from the bottom (nice trail, alot of walking) or down to them from the top.

Johns Mountain. Pic doesn't do it justice.

 

[UncleWillie]

Love it! My wife (then GF) used to do little day trips around Johns Mountain and Rising Fawn. We actually stumbled upon McKeown Falls by happenstance when we weren't quite ready to go home and decided to park at the top and hike the loop to the falls. It was in the spring and the entire understory was covered up in blooming sweetshrub the smell was incredible. Lots of water coming out of the fall at that point.

We liked it out that way, but tended to spend most our over-nighter time east of there more towards Dawsonville and Dahlonega, and then a lot of time near Demorest and Rabun County.

 

[UncleWillie]

If you haven't, download the USFS Visitor Map app. I also use the Gaia GPS app, and there is some good info on trails to ride on Trails Offroad.

I'll have to look into Gaia and the USFS Visitor Map app. When doing Forest Service roads I always ended up taking notes or creating a map with "Google My Maps" way before we left the house to plan a route. So many of these roads aren't shown as a viable route in most typical navigation apps. I also found OnX to have limited utility here in the SE.

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