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OPEN RIDES & EVENTS => Trail Rides & Open Events (Everyone's invited) => Topic started by: Brad on April 28, 2009, 11:43:15 AM
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has anyone been?
is it good?
i might check it out this weekend
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has anyone been?
is it good?
i might check it out this weekend
Chatsworth ga?
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ya
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I have been there and it is nice if you are looking for some very mild trails. It actually starts off as a dirt road and then turns into a trail.
There is not a lot of mud and most of the holes are very shallow. I went with two stock trucks and neither of them had any issues.
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I live in Chatsworth and have never heard of this. Does anyone know where it's at exactly?
I'll go ride it/take some pictures and let everyone know more about it.
Only places I've heard of here is Rocky Flatts, Peeple's Lake, and The Watering Hole.
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I just looked it up.
I've spent days worth up at Peeple's lake and been to every road up there until there was a private property sign or a gate blocking it. I've never once seen a Tatum Lead sign.
If this is the same place I'm thinking about it's nothing more than a rough driveway. Two SMALL creek crossings, couple mud holes, none of which will come up to your lug nuts, and one minor hill that's rocky. Matter of fact that hill is in the picture of my Jeep that is my avatar.
I'll print the maps they have sometime this week and follow my way on them to signs that I know are up there just to make sure. Maybe I missed a trail somewhere but I don't think I did.
If it is in fact the stuff I've been on then any stock vehicle will have no trouble on them even in two wheel drive. When it rains it's a bit more fun but even then you shouldn't really need four wheel drive.
It is very pretty and scenic though, I'll give it that.
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I live in Chatsworth and have never heard of this. Does anyone know where it's at exactly?
I'll go ride it/take some pictures and let everyone know more about it.
Only places I've heard of here is Rocky Flatts, Peeple's Lake, and The Watering Hole.
Info here:http://www.gatrailriders.com/GTRForums/index.php?topic=3649.0 (http://www.gatrailriders.com/GTRForums/index.php?topic=3649.0)
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I live in Chatsworth and have never heard of this. Does anyone know where it's at exactly?
I'll go ride it/take some pictures and let everyone know more about it.
Only places I've heard of here is Rocky Flatts, Peeple's Lake, and The Watering Hole.
Info here:http://www.gatrailriders.com/GTRForums/index.php?topic=3649.0 (http://www.gatrailriders.com/GTRForums/index.php?topic=3649.0)
Yea that's the maps I found too {toast}. I'm going to go ride them to make sure what I'm talking about though. Murray County has a nice way of not marking the trails/roads right or not even marking them at all. Gilmer County, now that county does it right.
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I'm leaving to hit the trail now.
I'll be back in a couple hours with a mini report.
{toast}
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Here are the directions we used...
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Trail begins 2.5 miles south of Tatum Lead Road and GA 52 (10 miles east of Chatsworth, .95 mile past Cohutta Lodge). Cross this 2.5 miles of private property in vehicle, and park on marked portion of trail. The trail dead-ends with no outlet
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The turn off of 52 is hard to see. There is a small gravel road (almost looks like a driveway) on the right just before 52 starts to go down the backside of the mountain.
Once you turn off of 52, you go down a private dirt road for 2.5 miles. After you go past the gate, you have entered Tantum Lead trail..
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Here are the directions we used...
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Trail begins 2.5 miles south of Tatum Lead Road and GA 52 (10 miles east of Chatsworth, .95 mile past Cohutta Lodge). Cross this 2.5 miles of private property in vehicle, and park on marked portion of trail. The trail dead-ends with no outlet
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The turn off of 52 is hard to see. There is a small gravel road (almost looks like a driveway) on the right just before 52 starts to go down the backside of the mountain.
Once you turn off of 52, you go down a private dirt road for 2.5 miles. After you go past the gate, you have entered Tantum Lead trail..
Did you see signs that actually said Tatum Lead?
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The only sign I remember seeing was a small sign on 52 that said Tantum Lead Rd... Tantum Lead Rd is the private dirt road at the beginning of the trail. You are allowed drive down the provate road but your vehicle must be street legal.
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The only sign I remember seeing was a small sign on 52 that said Tantum Lead Rd... Tantum Lead Rd is the private dirt road at the beginning of the trail. You are allowed drive down the provate road but your vehicle must be street legal.
Alright well I didn't see the first sign of it.
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Here is something I just pulled off of Trailsource.com...
(http://www.trailsource.com/scripts/tracker.asp?ID=13388)
NOTES: East of Chatsworth and southeast of Eton, the Tatum Lead ORV Trail is a 7 mile ORV trail. This is a one-way route along the ridge line of Tatum Mountain through dense forest. It connects up with the Rock Creek ATV Trail.
To reach the trail head from Chatsworth, head east on SR52/SR2. The trailhead is off a road on the right about 0.8 miles east of Cohutta Lodge. Note: the road to the trailhead is subject to washouts and has high berms which may cause trailer drag -- not recommended for long trailers.
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Hmm... I must have went to the wrong place tonight.
I'm about to start a new thread for the place I went.
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I found this blame trail haha.
It was actually pretty nice. and nice to find something new in my own backyard.
i'm going to do a write up similar to what I did with the peeple's lake one. I'll probably do a Rocky Flatts one too but I have no clue when.
Unfortunately I ran out of light to take decent pictures so I turned around.
I should hopefully have a complete write up tomorrow night.
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how do you get to rocky flatts?
is it closer than beasley?
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how do you get to rocky flatts?
is it closer than beasley?
It's closer to where I live than Beasley Knob. I'll get some road names for sure, but it's off 411 in Eton. Right next to Chatsworth.
I tell you Rocky Flatts is no where near the challenge that Beasly Knob is.