Meeting Time: 10 AM Central, 11 AM Eastern
Meeting Place:
Hike Distance: 10 miles
Estimated Hike Time: 6+ hours
Difficulty: strenuous with lots of rock hopping
Kids welcome, as long as they can handle the terrain
Leashed dogs welcome

Join us for a special fundraising hike series to benefit The Fiery Gizzard Project! We will be hiking the Fiery Gizzard once a month for six months, to raise funds and awareness for this worthwhile project.

The Fiery Gizzard trail is a perennial favorite of hikers. This beautiful trail contains the best features of Tennessee hiking: a rocky gorge, rapids and waterfalls, and a gorgeous high-cliff lookout with expansive views of a forested gorge. The scenery cannot be beat on this one, and it always earns rave reviews from hikers. The Land Trust for Tennessee now has a special opportunity to purchase 6,200 acres of this area, which would otherwise be in danger of logging or commercial development, destroying the views that make this trail such a treat.

Cost to hike is a minimum $10 donation and 100% of proceeds will benefit The Fiery Gizzard Project. Visit their site if you wish to donate more, or donate even though you can't make the hike.

Please be prepared for this long, hot hike with plenty of water (at least two liters per person), snacks and lunch. Also, due to the terrain, ankle-high boots are strongly recommended. With the terrain of this hike, the drive, swimming, and optional dinner after at Crust Pizza, plan for this hike to take the whole day (up to 10 hours from departure to return to Chattanooga). There may be some dipping-in-the-creek opportunities, so be prepared to get wet if you choose to do so!

Directions to the Grundy Forest Trailhead:
Take Exit 134 off I-24
Turn right through Monteagle
Turn left onto Hwy 41 (don't take the first left on 41, take the second left)
Pass the park's Visitor Station on your left
About a mile or two farther you'll see a sign for the trailhead entrance on your right; it's just before Electric Office Building
The road winds to the right past a school.

Trail map
We will start at the north parking lot of Grundy Forest Natural Area and hike to Raven Point along the creek, then return along the ridge back to Dog Hole Trail.