Doing a section hike and want to park my vehicle some where near deep gap where I will be coming out. any advice on safe parking location for 5 nights?
Doing a section hike and want to park my vehicle some where near deep gap where I will be coming out. any advice on safe parking location for 5 nights?
If you mean the Deep Gap close to the GA/ NC Border (First parking available in NC going North), it is A okay to park here. Do you have a good shuttle driver yet? If not I would Highly recommend Ron Brown.
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Standing Indian campground or backcountry kiosk....never had an issue..
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Its been quite few years but I seem to remember Standing Indian Campground had a campground host which generally reduces car breakins significantly
there is actually a button somewhere up on the tool bar, that lists all the parking along the trail, with advice and saftey notes. Somewhere here.
http://appalachiantrail.rohland.org/
Here is that parking link!
From what I understand, Deep Gap, NC is inaccessible by car until April 1. The forest service road is closed from Jan 4-April 1 each year. I was going to section hike Deep Gap south the Dicks Creek, and the day before I thought that maybe I should check, so I called the NC forest service and got a person who told me it was closed. I missed it by 3 days. I did Unicoi-Dicks Creek instead.
I did hear it is a very safe place to park.
I'm going to section hike starting at Mountain Crossing and ending in NC at the Deep Gap parking lot. Anyone doing a similar hike and want to ride share or split the shuttle costs?