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About This Trail
This trail is a loop, and is hiked most easily when traveling counterclockwise, as the guidepost indicates. The trail is dotted with plants, both unusual and everyday.
Near the end of the loop, after a moderately strenuous climb to the ridge, hikers reach the rock for which the trail is named. Tennessee Rock is a part of the Eastern Continental Divide, a series of ridges that separates the Gulf of Mexico drainage from the watersheds that flow directly to the Atlantic Ocean.
Look-off areas provide scenic views of surrounding mountains and towns.
Getting There
Trail Reports
Great Short Trail
This trail is well-maintained and fairly popular as it is short and has a nice payoff. It is a lovely hike starting out in a valley filled with lots of plant life. The climb is easy to moderate with a lovely view at the top on each side of the mountain. I will warn that the climate on Blackrock is its own - I have been there when it was nearly 15 degrees colder than the city of Clayton. I have also been there during a pop-up storm.
Nearby Trails
Becky Branch Falls
Nice 20 foot waterfall
Warwoman Dell Nature Trail
Remote hiking trail with small waterfalls
Coleman River Trail
This scenic hiking trail follows its namesake river to a Scenic Area and commemorative plaque.
Sutton Hole Trail
Just upstream from Woodall Shoals, a Class VI rapid.
Panther Creek Trail (Tallulah Basin)
A hike past the impressive Panther Creek Falls
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