Blood Mountain Creek, Georgia, US

to Dicks Creek

Usual Difficulty	III-V (for normal flows)
Length	1.25 Miles

Gauge Information

Name	Range	Difficulty	Updated	Level
CHESTATEE RIVER NEAR DAHLONEGA, GA
usgs-02333500	3000 - 20000 cfs	III-V	22h56m	329 cfs (rc= -0.2 )

River Description

A steep, narrow creek that ends in a long, rocky, woody, foliage-laden and nearly unrunnable set of falls/rapids (see photos below). Takes a lot of rain to be runnable and runs off very quickly. No known information on any other rapids: if you have information, please add to the "comments" section below or email the streamkeeper.

DIRECTIONS: From Turner's Corner, take Highway 19 west just over 1/2 mile and turn on Dick's Creek Road. (Look for the "Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church" sign.) There is no road access to runnable portions of Blood Mountain Creek. Dick's Creek Road is closed just above the ranger station, well below Blood Mountain Creek, from January 1 to mid-March: the rest of the year, there are two options for access, neither of them easy:

1. Drive up Dick's Creek Road (which, as the sign says, is "not maintained for passenger vehicles") to the upper gate, about 3 miles uphill of the ranger station. Because the area above it to the left is Blood Mountain Gap Wilderness, the road beyond the gate is never open to vehicle traffic. Per Robert Bridges of the USFS/Chattahoochee National Forest, the road nears Blood Mountain Creek about 3/4 of a mile beyond the upper gate.

2. Hike up along the creek from the bottom of the falls/rapids, where Blood Mountain Creek flows under a concrete bridge on Dick's Creek Road. There is an unmaintained path up the hill on river right - per comments below, Kyle Bergner has hiked up about .5 mile without finding very runnable water. Blood Creek runs into Dick's Creek just yards below the concrete bridge.