Pinhoti Section 30 FS Road 90 to Buddy Cove Gap
Eleven miles from Forest Service Road 90 east to Buddy Cove Gap.
Photo by Lens Walters
- Distance
- 11 mi one way
- Elevation gain
- Not recorded
- Trail type
- Point to Point
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Crossings
- No crossings recorded
- Best season
- Year round.
Wilderness status
Outside the wilderness
Bicycles
Bicycles are permitted. This trail lies outside the designated wilderness boundary. Yield to hikers and expect two-way traffic on blind corners.
The trail
Eleven miles working east through the Mountaintown drainage toward Buddy Cove Gap. This section runs the country closest to the Old CCC Camp Road corridor and the trailheads on this side are the practical ones for anyone staying nearby.
The Pinhoti here is well used by both hikers and riders, and the connection to the wider trail system is what makes this section matter. Elevation gain is missing from the source data.
Marquee feature
Eleven mile section through the Mountaintown drainage
Getting there
Forest Service roads to the Cohutta trailheads are gravel, seasonally gated, and often without cell service. Download directions before you leave pavement.
Access roads and winter closures
Open trailhead in Google Maps
Stay near the trailheads
Sherpa Camp — a cabin at the edge of the wilderness.
The drive in from Atlanta or Chattanooga is long enough that most people are better off sleeping near the gate than starting at 4 a.m. Sherpa Camp is a small cabin on Holly Creek, on the western edge of the Cohutta Wilderness, about 25 minutes from Ellijay. It sleeps five, with a covered porch, a firepit, and a creek. Cell service ends before you get there.
See Sherpa Camp