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Spencer Branch

Location: Brevard, North Carolina
Ride Type: Loop
Trail Type: Fire/Gravel Road 90%
Single Track 10%
Distance: 9.00 miles (14.48 KM)
Duration: not specified.
Elevation Gain: 3000 Feet (914 Meters)
Climbing: Steep and Technical
Skill Level: Advanced Skills
User Density: not specified.

Trail Description:
Trail Starts at the right gate with some rolling terrain and goes on for about 5 miles uphill with a 10% grade and then a the top splits off to the left with some awesome single track for about a mile wiht extremely tricky spots with washouts and then at the end you go back onto a fire road and that takes you up a long 12% grade climb up to the parking lot. (Watch for washouts and for sudden turns that can send you off of a cliff.

How to get there:
take 64w to brevard and then hang a right at the intersection with highway 2?? (the intersection before you go into pisgah. Then travel 10 miles? til you get to some road that has a few grain silos on the left u can see from the road. Travel to the end of the long long road and you will see some gates and signs, take the right-hand gate, you will come out of the left one at the end. This is impossible to ride backwards.

Additional Notes:
IMPOSSIBLE to ride BACKWARDS