Name: Shope Creek Road
Rating: 4.0

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Features Birding · Fall Colors · River/Creek · Wildflowers

Family Friendly This is a gravel road that makes for easy hiking.

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This blocked-off gravel road leaves the parking lot and quickly heads uphill through a tall pine forest. Slowly, the pines succumb to some big hardwoods. The trail finishes in an old turnaround in a field.

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Land Manager: USFS - North Carolina National Forests Office

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Russell Hobart

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4.0 from 2 votes

#14

in Asheville

#12991

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Tall pines at the start of the Shope Creek Road

Dec 7, 2017 near Swannanoa, NC

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Shope Creek Road

“Explore a main gravel road that cuts up into the hills. ”

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3,102' 945 m

2,718' 828 m

384' 117 m

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Dogs Leashed

Features Birding · Fall Colors · River/Creek · Wildflowers

Family Friendly This is a gravel road that makes for easy hiking.

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