BMT Resources
The Benton Mackaye Trail Association's website has detailed trail descriptions and directions. I also recommend checking out Tim Homan's Hiking the Benton Mackaye Trail. It includes elevation profiles, annotated topo maps, nature notes, and mileage/ elevation notes. It includes a short biography of Benton Mackaye, the forward-thinking progressive and conservationist whose vision inspired the Appalachian Trail.
My trips on the Benton Mackaye Trail listed from south to north:
BMT Sections 1 and 2 (May 2012, June 2018)
Parking: GA 60 (Little Skeenah Creek)
Hiked: South from GA 60 to Springer. Did this out and back, solo.
Highlights: Long Creek Falls.
Also: My first overnight backpacking trip in Georgia was an out and back from GA 60 to the Toccoa River suspension bridge.
BMT Sections 3, 4, & 5 (overnight)
Parking: GA 60 (Wilscot Gap)
Hiked: From GA 60, went north to Shallowford Bridge. Then got shuttled to Little Skeenah Creek and hiked north to Wilscot Gap.
Highlights: Toccoa River, winter views and sunset near Licklog Mountain.
BMT Part of Section 6 (dayhike)
Parking: Stanley Creek Road
Hiked: Out and back from Stanley Creek Road up past the intersection of the Stanley Gap Trail.
Highlights: Falls Branch Falls
BMT Part of Section 8 (Feb. 2013)
Parking: Bushy Head Gap
Hiked: Out and back from Bushy Head Gap a few miles before bailing due to snow.
Highlights: Random strangers helping us get the car out of the road, dinner at Waffle King.
BMT Sections 9 &10 (overnight)
Parking: Dyer Gap and Watson Gap with shuttle
Hiked: From Dyer Gap to Watson Gap, then continued on to Double Springs Gap, where we turned around and hiked back to Watson Gap.
Highlights: Hanging with my friend, Salt.
BMT Section 11 (June 2018)
Parking: Thunder Rock Campground
Hiked: Ocoee River to Double Springs Gap and back.
Highlights: Big Frog Mountain
BMT Part of Section 13 (Sept. 2013)
Parking: Childers Creek
Hiked: From Childers Creek to Wildcat Creek and back.
Highlights: Hiawassee River, pawpaw, not getting bitten by a copperhead.
BMT Part of Section 14, 15, and a little of 16 (July 2018)
Parking: TN Hwy 68
Hiked: From Hwy 68 to near Round Top and back, with a side trip to Waucheesi Mountain.
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