Trail reports for Amicalola River Trail

Trail reports for Amicalola River Trail
This rating was added on 2004-12-03

Overall rating: 3
Scenic rating: 4
Difficulty rating: 2

This rating was added on 2006-03-03

Overall rating: 5
Scenic rating: 5
Difficulty rating: 5

This rating was added on 2006-07-10

Overall rating: 3
Scenic rating: 3
Difficulty rating: 3
We hiked this one on Sat, 7/8/06. It was moderately strenuous at best. A nice 3.5 mile hike. The best part of this hike is that we met our new friends, Tom and Jean at the end of the hike and spent more time getting to know them than we did on the trail hike. Larry met a real Cherokee Indian Cheif. It was an enjoyable day.

This rating was added on 2006-09-06

Overall rating: 5
Scenic rating: 5
Difficulty rating: 3

This rating was added on 2006-09-06

Overall rating: 2
Scenic rating: 3
Difficulty rating: 1
The trail was nice, some of the sign were stolen and we had no idea what we were looking at. The blazes were also hard to follow past the picnic table. We ended up walking down a road that was blazed with the blue markers. We then had to walk down Hwy 53 to get back to a car.

This rating was added on 2006-09-30

Overall rating: 4
Scenic rating: 4
Difficulty rating: 3

This rating was added on 2007-02-24

Overall rating: 5
Scenic rating: 5
Difficulty rating: 5

This rating was added on 2007-02-25

Overall rating: 4
Scenic rating: 4
Difficulty rating: 2
Easy walk, good exercise. River section tends to be crowded - especially on summer & fall weekends. Trail into the WMA is not so heavily traveled as most stay at the river.

This rating was added on 2007-04-25

Overall rating: 5
Scenic rating: 4
Difficulty rating: 3
Beautiful trail! Beautifully blazed and beautifully maintained. Hike May 2007 and was very impressed. A mixture of gentle uphills and wide flat trail with strewn with pine straw. Mile 2 tops out on top of a ridge at a wondeful picnic table that crys out for lounging! this trail reminded me that there are wonderfol trails less than five miles long out there!

This rating was added on 2007-07-01

Overall rating: 5
Scenic rating: 5
Difficulty rating: 5

This rating was added on 2007-08-19

Overall rating: 3
Scenic rating: 3
Difficulty rating: 3

This rating was added on 2007-09-04

Overall rating: 5
Scenic rating: 5
Difficulty rating: 5

This rating was added on 2007-10-12

Overall rating: 5
Scenic rating: 5
Difficulty rating: 5

This rating was added on 2007-11-14

Overall rating: 5
Scenic rating: 5
Difficulty rating: 5

This rating was added on 2007-11-21

Overall rating: 5
Scenic rating: 5
Difficulty rating: 2

This rating was added on 2008-02-27

Overall rating: 4
Scenic rating: 3
Difficulty rating: 2
Although this is a very short trek I try to hike it at least a couple of times a year. It is close to my home.

This rating was added on 2008-03-04

Overall rating: 4
Scenic rating: 5
Difficulty rating: 2
Beautiful rapids and beautiful hike. Worth doing again.

This rating was added on 2008-05-20

Overall rating: 5
Scenic rating: 5
Difficulty rating: 5

This rating was added on 2008-09-05

Overall rating: 5
Scenic rating: 5
Difficulty rating: 5
Nice walk through the woods.

This rating was added on 2009-01-13

Overall rating: 4
Scenic rating: 4
Difficulty rating: 2
Nice Trail, Easy to follow, trail is blazed in blue. Went after some hard rains and the river was raging. Very scenic view from the top where the picnic table is when the leaves are off.

This rating was added on 2009-01-13

Overall rating: 3
Scenic rating: 5
Difficulty rating: 1
I had hiked this trail a number of years ago and they have since added a wooden walkway for most of the trail making in an ever easier hike than before. It is still a nice hike through the forest along the river to the rapids. Once you pass the courthouse in downtown Dawsonville the parking lot is about 6 miles on the right.

This rating was added on 2009-03-28

Overall rating: 4
Scenic rating: 4
Difficulty rating: 3
We first hiked this with our five year old son. It was a bit steep in a couple areas and we had to keep a close eye out. Overall the hike was fun for everyone and just long enough to challenge us!

This rating was added on 2009-05-01

Overall rating: 4
Scenic rating: 4
Difficulty rating: 2
Beautiful river and nice wooded trail. Awesome quick get away after work during the week. Take a book or picnic and sit on the rocks and enjoy nature. Good place to take kids to play in the water. After the river, the trail is not crowded at all.

This rating was added on 2009-05-30

Overall rating: 3
Scenic rating: 3
Difficulty rating: 4
Poorly marked. We got lost at the Bat houses. All 8 of us. The first part as you leave the wooden path is very tough but great. Finding the entire loop was a failure had to go all the way back. Will try again.

This rating was added on 2009-09-12

Overall rating: 5
Scenic rating: 5
Difficulty rating: 1

This rating was added on 2009-09-30

Overall rating: 3
Scenic rating: 4
Difficulty rating: 3

This rating was added on 2010-01-12

Overall rating: 5
Scenic rating: 5
Difficulty rating: 4

This rating was added on 2010-05-31

Overall rating: 5
Scenic rating: 5
Difficulty rating: 5

This rating was added on 2010-06-22

Overall rating: 5
Scenic rating: 5
Difficulty rating: 5

This rating was added on 2010-07-03

Overall rating: 4
Scenic rating: 5
Difficulty rating: 3
Nice hike, but crowded on weekends. Nice views of the falls, just don't slip, :<{)