Nimblewill Creek

The Chattahoochee National Forest is one of two National Forests in the State of Georgia, and it takes its name from the Chattahoochee River whose headwaters begin in the North Georgia mountains. The River and the area were given the name by the English settlers who heard it from the Indians that once lived here. The Chattahoochee National Forest was created when the Forest Service purchased 31,000 acres in Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin and Union Counties from the Gennett family in 1911 for $7.00 per acre. In the beginning, the Chattahoochee was part of the Nantahala and Cherokee National Forests in North Carolina and Tennessee, but eventually the Forest Service made additional land purchases and expanded the Chattahoochee to its current size of nearly 750,000 acres.

This short hike starts at a primitive campsite on Nimblewill Creek in the Chattahoochee National Forest. We hiked about half the route on the gravel Nimblewill Gap Road then the rest up USFS 28D and back. Be careful on Nimblewill Gap Road because there are vehicles that occasionally wander along the dirt road. There is nearly no traffic on USFS 28D, however, so there is more solitude on this forest road.