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Trails To Trout Streams
in western North Carolina

This is just a small listing of the major trails to trout streams here in western North Carolina. Most of these are forest service trails that are marked on US Forest Service maps. Many of these trails in this list were compiled by a USFS worker who gave a program for the Table Rock Trout Unlimited Chapter a few years back.

Another great place to find trails to trout streams is from our mountain and hiking friends at

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Alleghany	Avery	Buncombe	Burke	Caldwell
Cherokee	Clay	Graham	Haywood	Henderson
Jackson	Macon	Madison	McDowell	Polk
Swain	Transylvania	Watauga	Wilkes	Yancey

County	Stream	Name of Trail / # of Trail
Alleghany	Big Sandy	Unnamed at present-connects new picnic area with Stone Mountain Trail
Avery	Wilson Creek	Wilson Creek Trail / USFS #258
	South Harper Creek	Harper Creek Trail / USFS #260
	North Harper Creek	North Harper Creek Trail / USFS #266
	Gragg Prong	Lost Cove Creek Trail / USFS #262
	Lost Cove Creek	Lost Cove Creek Trail / USFS #262
	Cary Flat Branch	Bill Crump Trail / USFS #257
	Webb Creek	Unnamed-Starts on Private land off SR 1511
Buncombe	Corner Rock Creek	Corner Rock Trail / USFS #173
	Carter Creek	Douglas Falls Trail / USFS #162
Burke	Linville River	Linville Gorge Trail / USFS #231
	Steele Creek	Upper Steele Creek Trail / USFS #237
	Upper Creek	Greentown Short-Cut Trail USFS #268A
Caldwell	Raiders Camp Creek	Raiders Camp Trail / USFS #277
	Phillips Branch	Phillips Branch Trail / USFS #278
Cherokee	Tellico River	UTORVA #5 (Upper Tellico ORV area) UTORVA #8 Short-Cut between #5 & 8 Unnamed
	Peckerwood Creek	UTORVA #4
Clay	Leatherwood Branch	Leatherwood Falls Trail / USFS #73
	Little Fires Creek	Little Fires Creek Trail / USFS #386
	Bald Springs Branch	Bald Springs Trail / USFS #78
Graham	Slickrock Creek	Slickrock Creek Trail / USFS #42
	Big Fat Branch	Big Fat Trail / USFS #41
	Ike Branch	Ike Branch Trail / USFS #45
	Nichols Cove Branch	Nichols Cove Trail / USFS #44
	Little Santeetlah Creek	Naked Ground Trail / USFS #55
	Horse Cove Branch	Horse Cove Trail / USFS #155
	Bear Creek	USFS #52
	Bear Creek	Bear Creek Trail / USFS #62
	Shell Stand Creek	Panther Creek Trail / USFS #68?
	Rock Creek	USFS #405
Haywood	None listed for GSMNP
	Little East Fork, Pigeon River	Little East Fork Trail / USFS #107
	Shining Creek	Shining Creek Trail / USFS #363
	Big East Fork, Pigeon River	Big East Fork Trail / USFS #357
	Greasy Cove Prong	Greasy Cove Trail / USFS #362
	Hurricane Creek	Hurricane Creek 4wd Trail / USFS #233
	Groundhog Creek	Groundhog Creek Trail / USFS #315
	Painter Branch	Unnamed-Starts at 1-40 at Snowbird Creek
Henderson	Middle Fork Creek	Middle Fork Creek Trail / USFS #352
	Fletcher Creek	Fletcher Creek Trail / USFS #350
	Big Creek	Big Creek Trail / USFS #102
	Bradley Creek	Bradley Creek Trail / USFS #351 Vineyard Gap Trail / USFS #324
	Slate Rock Creek	Slate Rock Creek Trail / USFS #320
Jackson	None noted on Cherokee Reservation
	Whitewater River	Foothills Trail / USFS #436
	Pantertown Creek	Pantertown Creek Trail / USFS #450
	Greenland Creek	Greenland Creek Trail / USFS #451
	Wolf Creek	USFS # 441?
	Tatham Creek	USFS #370
	East Fork, Dicks Creek	Unnamed
Macon	Kimsey Creek	Kimsey Creek Trail / USFS #23
	Park Creek	Park Creek Trail / USFS #33
	Nantahala River	Park Creek Trail / USFS #33
	Bear Pen Creek	Bear Pen Gap Trail / USFS #22
Madison	East Fork, Shut-In Creek	Shut-In Creek Trail / USFS #296
	Big Laurel Creek	Laurel River Trail / USFS #310
	West Prong, Hickory Fork	Hickory Fork Trail / USFS #292
	Pounding Mill Branch	Pounding ill Trail / USFS #297
	Dry Creek	Green Ridge Trail / USFS #287
McDowell	Armstrong Creek	Armstrong Creek Trail / USFS #223
Polk	Green River	Green River Cove Trail
Swain	Wesser Creek	Wesser Creek Trail / USFS #26
	Ledbetter Creek	Bartram Trail / USFS #67
Transylvania	South Fork, Mills River	South Mills River Trail / USFS #133
	Cantrell Creek	Cantrell Creek Trail / USFS #148
	Avery Creek	Avery Creek Trail / USFS #327
	Coontree Creek	Coontree Loop Trail / USFS #144
	Thrift Cove Creek	Thrift Cove Trail / USFS #603
	Henry Branch	Buckhorn Gap Trail / USFS #103
	King Creek	USFS #124?
	Cedar Rock Creek	Cat Gap Loop Trail / USFS #120
	Horse Cove Creek	USFS #151?
	Beetree Fork	Beetree Trail / USFS #612
	Horsepasture River	Horsepasture River Trail / USFS
Watauga	Boone Fork	Boone Fork Trail / MST
Wilkes	Basin Creek	Basin Creek Trail
	Garden Creek	Unnamed Trail in Stone Mt. S.P.
	Widows Creek	Widows Creek Backcountry Trail / Stone Mt. S.P.
	Bullhead Creek	Bullhead Trail (permit needed) / Stone Mt. S.P.
Yancey	Bowlens Creek	Black Mountain Crest Trail / USFS #179
	Lower Creek	Camp Alice Trail / Mt. Mitchell S.P.

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