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It's always fun to stop by Mission Lake. An out of the ordinary thing to check out near Mission Lake is Mission Dam, and get your heart pumping on the fine whitewater of Hiawassee River. This lake is so wonderful. If you yearn for a little side spree, try Green Cove; after a long day outdoors Best Western Inn - Murphy is a pleasant place to spend a night or two. Throughout the days of summer at Mission Lake highs are usually in the 80's. All through the moonlight
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| | hours it's usually in the 60's. Daytime highs during the wintertime are in the 40's while the cold winter nights at Mission Lake are in the 20's. Man, is there heaps of fun stuff to do in the Great Smoky Mountains. A magnificent location for whitewater paddling in the neighborhood of Mission Lake is Fires Creek; if you're here you can take a hike along the Coosa Backcountry Trail. The top of Ammon Knob is easily seen from Mission Lake, and do stop at Hayesville | |
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Reservoir, it's a striking lake. You'll find a striking lake called Carroll Lake near Mission Lake. There's so much to do here at Mission Lake that you need to camp here for a while, Creekside Rv Park is a good place for that.
You completely ought to have a thing about the Great Smoky Mountains. Mission Lake is tremendous enough to spend more than a day at, Peace Valley Campground is a tremendous local campground, and if you're looking for some flowing
water? Try Anderson Branch. Mission Lake is a beautiful lake in the Great Smoky Mountains. You definitely should love Mission Lake. This lake is so wonderful. Dry warm beds await you at Days Inn Murphy, and going for a hike along
the CHoga Trail will let you absorb the natural beauty of this neighborhood. Yep, outdoors fun stuff to do are truly abundant here at Mission Lake. A journey to Ammon Bottom rejuvenates the spirit, and hiking along the Arkaquah Trail
is wonderful fun. A great deal of precipitation falls at Mission Lake; of all the months in a year March is the one with the most rain, and October is when it's the driest.
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Coordinates: Latitude: 35.065 Longitude: -83.915
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Hiawassee River, Clay/Cherokee CountyCounty, 1 miles away Class I-II - 18.3 miles long (Hayesville to US Route 64) |
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Fires Creek, Clay CountyCounty, 8 miles away Class -blank- - 5 miles long (Mule Flats to Arch Bridge) |
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Fires Creek, Clay CountyCounty, 9 miles away Class II-III+ - 8 miles long (Two miles above Horse Park to Leatherwood Falls) |
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Jackrabbit Campground
 | 10 miles away cool man sooo cool... |
Arkaquah Trail
 | 11 miles away Hiked this trail with a friend on Labour Day weekend 2007 and it was one of the toughest trails that we have done. Parking at Brasstown and hiking down was pretty easy and we stopped to eat at Track Rock. Going back up to Brasstown was pretty brutal even though we are both in good shape. There are few turns or forks, which is good because the trail is NOT marked in many places. We heard reports of a copperhead and yellow jackets on the trail, but only saw red tailed hawks, bugs and worms. There is no water on this trail, but its very shady, at least in the summer. The views are nice and you are advised to take your time climbing using short steady steps. Over 11 miles of hiking total and it took a good 6 hours including rest stops, eating time, pictures, etc.... |
Trackrock Campground & Cabins
 | 12 miles away Tent Sites, RV Hookups, Pets OK, Fires OK, Store, Nearby Grocery, Pool, Gameroom...TENT:We have 21 sites with electric and water for tents and pop-ups., RV:We have both 30 amp and 50 amp sites. There is WiFi service throughout the campground., - 73 RV hookups, FIRES:Fire pits are at each campsite., STORE:Limited RV supplies and snacks, GROCERY:There are several super markets in Blairsville, 9 miles away., POOL:We do have a 4 acre lake with a swimming beach, GAMEROOM:The game room has a pool table and some video games as well as a fireplace and satellite TV.... |
Bald Mountain Park Campground
 | 14 miles away Mike and Pam has done a beautiful job with the park. We have a place in the residential? section of Bald Mountain Park and we have to go thru the park to get to our place and each time we go up there we notice somrthing else that they have done to the park to make it look better. We used to camp alots before we got our own place,I? would say that Bald Mountain Park is one of the cleanest park that we have every camp at.?????????? KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK THAT YOU''ll ARE DOING!...This is one of the nicest campgrounds East of the Mississippi River! I have been to many! Mike and Pam have taken a run-down campground and turned it around and into one that anyone will be glad to visit. There are tons of things to see and do in the area.... |
Coosa Backcountry Trail
 | 15 miles away ...ght up hill. We proceeded up the side of the mountain realizing that being in our early twenties would not save us from severe exhaustion. We found ourselves stopping every five minutes or so to catch our breath. To add to the intense climb, about half way up it started to rain which made the 40F weather a little colder. We decided we were to far into the journey now to turn back, so we pushed on. After a few hours of strenuous hiking we reached the junction of the Coosa and Appalachian Trail. We pushed on for another hour or two until we reached the top and I saw the better than I expected shelter at the summit of Blood Mountain. We staggered in about two at a time a few minutes apart, each small group repeating the same emotion of screaming here it is, or we found it, finally. We camped in the shelter with two other parties and proceeded to drink the liquor we brought with us which helped us keep our mind off the fact that the temp was falling under twenty degrees making for a cold night. The next morning the mountain was covered in ice and light snow. The view was spectacular as y... |
Enota Resort and Campground
 | 16 miles away ...atural beauty, peaceful atmosphere and the ever-present babbling brook(s) that borders most of the campsites. We have camped here in our camper van several times in the past 3 years and love to hike up to the AT and the waterfalls, or watch the kids fish for trout in the pond in front of the Lodge The land is pristine, laced with waterfalls and streams totally accessible to both RV camping (full hook-ups) or tent camping. The cabins are rustically charming and recently more modern motel-type rooms have been added within view of the waterfall. Some of the structures on this property are CCC-built and the staff also honors Enota's Cherokee heritage as well, with a sweat lodge, sacred circle, drumming and the occasional Native American presenter, who happened to be leading the Sweat Lodge ceremonies when we were there this spring. We discovered that Enota is a non-profit ecological and teaching facility as well, and we campers and cabin folk mingle at the weekend breakfasts in the Lodge with the staff and the volunteers who help run the campgrounds,the gardens or the animal farm. Th... |
South Fork Citico Trail
 | 19 miles away I am planning on hiking and backpacking on this trail in May and would like to know if anyone has any other experiences or recommendations on loops.... |
DeSoto Falls Trail
 | 19 miles away I was there during the weekend before the 4th. DO not plan to stay a whole day here. Have a snack see the falls and move on to other falls. I camped here and it was okay. Had a run in with a huge Timber rattler 3/4 of a mile from entrance of Desot and realized camp was below....... Go see the Waters Creek area as well. Have a great lunch for few hours at Vogel North of DeSoto.... |
Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area
 | 67 miles away Please repair the annual pass box at the trail head.... |
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