Cove Creek Trail(edit)

trail_hike_comments: From Caney Bottom trail, climbs past Cove Creek Falls on an old road bed, through rich forests far above the stream, to flat areas near the headwaters and then up to Forest Service Road 225B. Unfortunately there is no good connector from the trail to Cove Creek Falls. This is a disgrace! You'll have to take an eroded, rocky, unsigned side path to get there but it is well worth it. Has some log bridges; beautiful forest and stream scenes. Makes a nice loop with the Caney Bottom trail to the east., trail_bike_comments: This is an old road bed which goes around the Cove Creek group campground and all the way up to FS 225B. In one of the worst, most confusing naming decisions on the Pisgah district, the lowermost portion of this route south of the Caney Bottom trail intersection - the portion which bypasses the Cove Creek group campground, no less - is called Caney Bottom instead. Most people make a loop out of this trail by climbing FS 475B (Headwaters Road), FS 225, and FS 225B to the top and coming downhill on Cove Creek trail. Keep right at the Caney Bottom trail junction (and you're now on the Caney Bottom trail). Going this way, it's a fast, downhill singletrack ride along an old road bed, with technical sections and some great banked curves. It also has a creek crossing or two. Several log bridges force you to dismount and carry right in the middle of the good downhill, though, and there's an uphill section past the upper Caney Bottom intersection. You can take the (hiking only) side path to Cove Creek Falls for a nice stop near the end of the ride (but it'll interrupt your downhill).