Long Creek and Raven Cliff (Deliverance Rock)

Missed a few hikes in the last two weeks so I was anxious to get out into the woods. Since our Thursday hike was cancelled due to weather, Bill decided to schedule the hike for Friday. So glad I was feeling better and didn't have anything pressing that would have prevented me from hiking this day. After doing some research to see if I had been on the Long Creek hike before, I discovered the directions to the trail head was familiar but the surroundings from the previous year pictures was not. It wasn't till after the hike today and driving back out that I saw a sign that read "Trail to Opossum Falls" (my first hike with the group 3 years ago)....so I had been in the area but not on this particular hike. Twelve of us gather at the usual meeting place and off we go. A little bit of a turn here and there, but we found the trail head. NOTE DRIVING TO TRAIL HEAD: Follow gravel Turkey Ridge Road till the end and trail head will be on an old maintenance road. Just a short distance on the hike, the road veers off to left (this will be way to Raven Cliff). No markings to speak of, so we just had to relay on past experiences on this trial. We hiked for approximately one mile before reaching the view of the Chattoogo River/Raven Cliff/Deliverance Rock. What a site to see.

After the specular view we returned back to the main trail and headed to Long Creek Falls. Our leaders' memorary was a little off, and led us off the path but shortly most of us turned back and found the correct trail to the river. It was such a beautful day, no one seemed to care about the extra scramble.


Long Creek Falls - leads into Chattooga River Section IV



After our usually picnic lunch we scrambled back up the hill and found our other group pondering on if they had missed us.