Helveys Mill Shelter

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Info, questions, comments, experiences (good or bad) regarding - Helveys Mill Shelter

Past/Present hikers - what can future hikers expect here? Have any good stories or memories from here?

Future hikers - any questions?

[ez-does-it]

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This shelter is 0.3 off the trail and then another 0.3 to the water source which is down hill and a real good walk from the shelter.So if you feel like walking another 0.6 just to get to a shelter and water be my guess.I really would not recommend the shelter howevere it does have a lot of good spots for tenting out.In closing this is one of those shelters you will have to think about before getting there.:rolleyes:

[Whistler]

Water is a long walk, and there's also a fair bit of civilization noise from the nearby Bland/Bastian interchange and the logging operation. Not recommended.
-Mark

[Berserker]

Despite some noise from I-77 I actually thought this was a pretty nice location. Most of the noise was drowned out by the wind, so I didn’t find it to be a big deal. The 0.25 mile blue blazed trail to the shelter has very little elevation change in it, so it is not a big deal to get to compared to other off trail shelters with more difficult access trails. The water (a small creek as opposed to a spring that might dry up easily) is a ways down from the shelter, but the trail to it is a very nicely graded switch-backed trail that made the hike down and up not seem as bad (i.e. I’ve seen much worse like the water source at Vandeventer in TN). There is also a nice large tent spot behind the shelter.

[TexasEd]

Thanks for the recent update. Were the logging operations still going in 2011?

[Berserker]

Thanks for the recent update. Were the logging operations still going in 2011?
I can't comment on the logging operation as to whether it's still going or not. I can say that all I heard when I was there was some road noise from I-77.