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Ride Summary:
Starts harder than it ends. Steam crossings and views included at no charge!
Trail Description:
0.0 - Go through the gate heading East on the older Forest Service road.
0.2 - Stay to the left and start climbing.
0.6 - Road reaches the top of the first hill.
0.9 - There will be an old clear-cut on right. The trail evens out for the next mile.
2.1 - Start the climb to the top of Saga Mountain.
2.7 - The road peaks at Saga Mountain. The scenery is nice with beautiful vistas.
3.1 - You'll come to an intersection. The road on the right goes down Saga Mountain for about 1 1/2 miles, and comes out on Old highway 441. Continue riding straight ahead.
3.3 - Another intersection at the top of the hill. You should continue on the road bearing to the left.
3.7 - You will come upon two water breaks in the road. Continue over these mounds and up the hill.
4.5 - Reach a fork and take the right which will take you around Crunkleton Ridge. The road going straight is a short cut road to the top of the hill.
4.8 - The highest mountain to your right is Glassy Mountain. The trail now descends down and turns making a sharp right and gets steep. Another sharp right as the trail turns then levels out.
5.5 - The trail turns left down the ridge.
5.6 - As the trail starts off the end of the ridge it gets steeper. This area may be too steep for some rider's comfort.
5.7 - The trail intersects with one of the old Stonewall Creek roads. Take a left and continue down the creek. Nice views here!
6.1 - Creek crossing #1!
6.2 - Creek crossing #2!
6.3 - Pass old road on the left.
6.5 - Cross over the branch.
6.5 - Go slow and ride to the left side of this road washout.
6.7 - Creek crossing #3!
7.0 - Creek crossing #4! The last one.
7.2 - A great place to break! You'll reach the Stonewall Creek waterfall. During hot summer days, this waterfall is an ideal cooling off spot.
7.2 - Reach Stonewall road and take a left to continue the loop.
7.7 - You are now at the intersection near where you started. Take the left fork to finish the loop.
How to get there:
From Atlanta, take I-85 Northeast to I-985 North passing Gainsville. Continue on as I-895 changes to Hwy 23. Head towards Clayton and from Clayton: Travel South on Hwy Old 441 for 3.2 miles to Tiger. Continue south through the 4-way Stop in front of the Tiger Post Office for an additional 2.4 miles then you'll turn right on to Forest Road #20. Continue on this gravel road for 1.6 miles. At a "T" intersection, park or turn right and park on the side of the. The ride starts at the gate.
Additional Notes:
A good night riding trail.
| Posted by: Hatcher on 9/2/2007 |
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Fun ride. nice weather and views. Starts hard. Power Co. cleaning up and repairing trail. New part greatly reduce time on gravel road. Will be nice. End of the trail is the best. great variety of hills and flora. Waterfall at bottom great reward.
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| Posted by: jimo on 9/29/2005 |
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Everyone is right, the climb is loose gravel and a workout. The gravel road is not all that pretty either, lots of powerline construction. After you pass the overlook at the top you will ride left at the nest two forks, then maybe 1/2 mile further there is a cairn(pile of rocks) marking the single track turn off on the left side with a marker propped up in it. Turn left there. The very beginning of the single track has some blown down across the trail and you will have to walk around it. After this blown down though, awesome. There are some technical descents and great tight twisties. We even saw two small black bears crossing the trail 100 ft in front of us between the 2nd and 3rd creek crossing. We will definitely return.
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| Posted by: RLafleur on 7/26/2005 |
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whats a good begining trail in or around clayton. I do triathalon but want to start downhill.Any suggestions? Im in the Tiger area.
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| Posted by: liquid on 5/8/2005 |
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I live in clayton, and I am sure that the stonewall loop is no more. The power company has come in and graveled most of the trail. White twister is not a bad alternative. As hard as you want to make it. No bad consequences for beginners.
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| Posted by: n8smom on 4/4/2005 |
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HELP!!! We went this weekend and could not find the trail at all. We got to the top of the hill and we got confused because of all the powerline construction. Please tell me what we missed. We parked at the lot, and went throught the gate, where the signs pointed. We rode and stayed to our right, up the hill. When we got to the top of the hill we didn't see any markers, so we kept on the road. We finally ended at a gate, which was about 300 yards from the end of the road itself.
I know we stayed on the road too long, but there was no real place clearly marked to get off the road.
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| Posted by: postcard guy on 10/6/2004 |
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This is a Jekyll-Hyde trail. The 1st half of the trail is a closed to motor vehicles gravel road. It's been graded so the gravel is loose and difficult to ride on especially since it's several miles and uphill all the way. Don't get discouraged when it seems to never end. Stay on the main rd until it ends all the way to the top and there'll be a 1x trail forking off to the left. All your work riding up that gravel rd will now be repayed with a twisting turning descent back to the start. The 3 creek crossings will result in wet feet so be prepared. I don't know the elevation at the top, but it's gotta be over 3000'. Views are spectatular. Overall this is a very good trail and its an excellant workout. If you are coming up 441 from Tallulah Gorge, take the 1st left after crossing the Tallulah river, then watch for a small sign on the right after a few miles, the parking area is mile or so off the main rd.
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| Posted by: jt on 9/2/2004 |
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these trails are near clayton ga, not greenville(?). also, at this time the main loop is closed except for sundays because of new powerline construction. graet summer ride, creeks are COLD winter.
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| Posted by: liquid on 8/21/2004 |
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use has taken its toll...but good trail over all. the town is Clayton not Greenville!
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| Posted by: Dean on 7/11/2004 |
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There is a large electric utility project in the area, which has disrupted a lot of the trail and markings. We also ran into an agressive land owner who said we were tresspassing at about mile 3.8.... so the markings for some of the trail have disappeared.
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| Posted by: Lester Ramey on 8/12/2000 |
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The trails is not in Greenville, but Clayton, GA. Typically only wooses rated it low. Some have stated "they like it better than Tsali"
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