Activities: hiking
Length of trail 3.9 miles.
Facilities: none
Fees:
Closest town:
For more information:
Some roads are closed depending
on weather conditions, so it is recommended that one call the Cohutta
Ranger District of the U.S. Forest Service at (706) 695-6737 in advance
of a trip to check road conditions.
Directions:
northern trail head from Chatsworth Georgia
From Chatsworth take US 411 north 13.2 miles
to Cisco community and intersection with Old Highway 2 (also known
as FS 16). At .7 mile pass County Road 169 on the right. The pavement
ends at 1 mile. Take the right fork at the Y intersection at 1.6 miles.
(County Road 210 bears left.) At 3.2 miles, FS 17 comes in from the
right, FS 16 goes left. Follow FS 16 just across the Tennessee state
line to the northwestern trail head of the Jacks River Trail. (Note
that FS 51 branches to the right just after crossing the river.) After
crossing the Conasauga River, turn right on FS 51. Travel 4.8 miles
to the trail heads of Rice Camp.
Rice Camp Trail
An easy to moderately difficult, yellow-blazed access trail to Jacks River
with several stream crossings. Rice Camp Trail is a scenic 3.9 mile one way trail to the Jack's River Trail in the Cohutta Wilderness area in the Chattahoochee National Forest in North Georgia. can be very strenuous on parts of the trail. Camping is only permited in designated areas at Beech Bottom
