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Jake Mountain Trails Mountain Bike Trail
Dahlonega, Georgia
MTB TRAIL STATS
Avg Rating:   |
4 trail reviews |
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Status: updated 8/17/11 by GoldenGoose |
Difficulty:  Intermediate |
| Length: 7 miles | Global Rank: #Not yet ranked. |
| Tread: Singletrack | Configuration: Network |
| Ridden: 15 | Wishlist: 5 |
| Avg. Speed: 8.61 mph | Avg. Time: 1hr 24min |
| Elevation Gain/Loss: +551/-842 ft |
Description: Some nice singletrack mixed with fire road double track and some washed out, super gnarly fireroad/singletrack trenches. Combine this trail with some of the others in the area to make an epic loop! Hit up one of the local bike shops, such as the one in Dahlonega or the Hub in Athens for a Bull Mtn map. That will help, but note that a lot of the trail markers do not correspond with the numbers on the map, and that there are some trails that aren\'t included on the map. all things to think about!
added on April 22, 2009 by 
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TRAIL REVIEWS review this trail
reviewed by mtbgreg1 on October 7, 2011
Almost the entire Jake Mountain trail has been relocated (as of spring 2011). Instead of a very steep, rutted trench, the new trail is beautiful bench cut trail with incredible swoop and flow. This is now a hardtail 29er's paradise! Also, the trail now starts right at the beginning of the Jake-to-Bull connector trail at the day use parking lot, not back in the campground. This really provides a much more seamless singletrack experience. If you haven't ridden Jake Mountain recently, I highly recommend you try it again... you'll be thoroughly impressed!
Similar Trail: Black Branch, Turner Creek, Jake-to-Bull
reviewed by Trek29er on September 20, 2011
Road the entire Bull Jake system during this trip. (Not a local) As previously briefed then entire area has had trail improvements. The SORBA has done an a superb job. This trail that was already an IMBA Epic, and now it is Northern Georgia masterpeice. Jake single track was well re-contructed, with proper turns, and climbs, descents. The trail was packed solid, and the only distraction was constant game of avoiding horse terds. I gave up after awhile. There is a creek crossing as depicted on the Jake trail map. It was a sandy, pebble composition, around 6-9 inches in depth, current light. Get the new maps with 223H trail name nomenclature. Go to the Forestry website, download the PDF. Maps were also available at both TH's. Trail junctions have brown plastic markers 3" in width, and 4' in heigth to assist in navigation. From the Jake TH I went up north to No tell, then around to Jones, then Bull 223F conector. (I rode the Bull loop first, lunch, then the Jake loop.) Over all it was equal climb / descent ride going this route. Mostly single track, and some very old logging roads, that might as well be classified as singletrack at this point. It was raining on day two, so I elected to not ride this trail again, but if the weather would have been dry, I would have easily repeated this route again. People sometimes sumarize a trails ranking and worth by wether or not it is worth the drive to the trail, well I drove from Savannah Ga. I will be back.
Similar Trail: Bear Creek
reviewed by mtbgreg1 on July 26, 2011
This trail was just relocated by the forest service in spring of 2011, and the new trail is amazing! It is much more sustainable with tons of benchcutting and it is very swoopy and flowy. This is now a crazy-fun trail! Definitely hardtail 29er territory, but of course you can ride it on anything.
reviewed by GoldenGoose on June 29, 2010
The first mile or so of the trail has been recently "refurbished" with fill dirt to hide the ruts and errosion that were evident. Give it a good amount of time to dry out after a rain unless you just enjoy riding with 1/2 inch of GA red clay caked onto your tires. Unless you just plan on doing an out and back (what a waste) make sure you have an UPDATED map of the trails in the area. I've been out there twice and gotten lost both times because they keep changing the trail numbers and markers. The only updated map I could find was on the message board at the trailhead. Unfortunately I didn't bother to doublecheck the trail names on my printed map vs what the board said. If your map doesn't list trails by their three digit number, it's old! Jake Mt trail is now 299. My advice is take a local or a GPS. Tons of riding in the area but it can get pretty confusing, pretty fast. A couple of signs with actually trail names would go a LONG way to making this place better. BTW, the map listed here on the site actually shows much more than just Jake Mt trail. It has parts of No Tell loop, Jones Creek, and Nimblewill trail on it as well. Just an FYI for newbs to the area.
* Review edited 6/29/2010
Similar Trail: Bull Mountain
