9 mile DuPont Lakes run
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 8.89 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,184 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 1,184 ft
- Max elevation
- 2,790 ft
- TrailRank
- 34
- Min elevation
- 2,456 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- one hour 30 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1224
- Uploaded
- March 4, 2012
- Recorded
- March 2012
near Hamilton Estates, North Carolina (United States)
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Itinerary description
Directions to Guion Farm parking area from downtown Brevard: From Broad and Main Streets, head down Broad street and pass by Brevard College on your right. As you pass by Ingles and K-Mart also on your right stay right and head forward on Old Hendersonville Hwy. Go through 2 lights and then turn right on Everett Road. At stop sign turn right onto Crab Creek. Follow Crab Creek a couple of miles to a right turn on DuPont Rd. After about a mile turn left at Sky Valley Rd. Sky Valley turns to gravel and the parking area will be on your right as you pass a gated Buck Forest rd. on your right.
This run has a good mix of fire roads, double and single track - beautiful views of 3 lakes which make it very worthwhile. Text directions from Guion Farm parking lot off of Sky Valley Rd in dupont. Tarkiln Branch Rd to a left on Thomas Cemetery Rd. Go left on Buck Forest and then left up Chestnut Oak Rd. Turn right on Joanna Rd and then right on Pitch Pine (real nice trail.) Left onto Conservation and left on Three Lakes Trail (beautiful trail!) Follow to Lake Dense and then hook up with a left turn onto Joanna. Go right on Conservation and then turn right on Buck Forest. Go left on Isacc Heath and right on Jim Branch. Left back on to Buck Forest and take to the parking lot.
This run has a good mix of fire roads, double and single track - beautiful views of 3 lakes which make it very worthwhile. Text directions from Guion Farm parking lot off of Sky Valley Rd in dupont. Tarkiln Branch Rd to a left on Thomas Cemetery Rd. Go left on Buck Forest and then left up Chestnut Oak Rd. Turn right on Joanna Rd and then right on Pitch Pine (real nice trail.) Left onto Conservation and left on Three Lakes Trail (beautiful trail!) Follow to Lake Dense and then hook up with a left turn onto Joanna. Go right on Conservation and then turn right on Buck Forest. Go left on Isacc Heath and right on Jim Branch. Left back on to Buck Forest and take to the parking lot.
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