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Hickory Gap

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Location

Hickory Gap is located in Georgia

Directions

From Chatsworth, GA: travel North on hwy. 411 for 6 miles, then turn Rt. on Grassy Street (4 lane will narrow down to 2 lanes). Travel to "T" intersection and turn Rt., go 100 ft. and then turn Lt on Mill Creek Rd. (FS 630). Continue straight on FS 630 for approx. 6.5 miles then turn right to enter campground at portal sign.

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34.89400048 N
84.672 W

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Josh W.

Guide

Reviewed Jan. 28, 2023

Quiet weekdays, busy weekends....

.....but beautiful every day!! What a gem. Def worth 6.5 miles on a skinny dirt road

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Nate H.

Legend

Reviewed Oct. 30, 2019

Hidden little gem

This is an awesome little dispersed campground alongside a beautiful stream and extremely secluded! If you are looking for something a bit off the beaten path this is your spot. I’d imagine it only fills up during hunting season if ever. I read that the steam is good for trout fishing but I didn’t have any luck. Probably some of the larger pools up or down steam hold fish but right along the campground it wasn’t very deep when we were there. There is not much to this campground at all so make sure you bring everything you need. There is nowhere to purchase anything and you are a good 20 minute drive away from any stores. The bathroom was borderline unusable for anything other than the worst of emergencies and even then I would prefer to venture off into the woods and take my chances. Bathrooms were beyond disgusting. This is not a campground that gets maintained daily. I would imagine maybe once every 2 weeks at most they have a park Ranger role through there and that is probably being generous. It is not trashed by any means and it is a beautiful spot tucked away in the woods. Definitely give this place a shot if you are looking for some seclusion in the north Georgia area and maybe some decent trout fishing.

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Zane M.

Guide

Reviewed Sep. 9, 2019

Nice, private, little spot

Sweet little spot. Just stayed Saturday night. Got there about 7 pm and there was one spot left. Only 5 campsites at actual hickey gap. The pavement ends and it’s a 6 mile,well maintained, windy gravel road. You’ll come to a fork in the road where hickey gap is on the right, with day parking, then down in the holler there’s the campsites. They sit along mill creek. The sit is well maintained, not overgrown. Nice flat tent pads. Trees for enos/hammoks. Remote area that isn’t not very traveled. Shaded by tree cover. There’s what people called a water hole swimming area down the creek a half mile hike but it hadn’t rained much so it wasn’t very full but still cool! There are outhouse/vault toilets, but we’re kinda nasty and had maggots/bugs in the waste. The fire pits have grill gates attached to them. Beware of what we were told are Japanese wasps that are huge and like lights. They didn’t really serve as a problem to us but our camp neighbors got stung. Given that we did have cintronella candles burning.

I would recommend going if your not afraid of primitive camping!

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Lori H.

Legend

Reviewed Sep. 8, 2019

Small, but beautiful

Hickey Gap is located in the Cohutta Wildlife Management Area in Georgia. The area is beautiful, undeveloped terrain, and the campground was surprisingly clean and well maintained. The campground is small, with only 5 spots, and it is first come, first served, so might be hard to get a spot during busier times, however camping is allowed in the WMA, so you could always backpack in to find a great spot. I noticed someone had a campsite across the creek from the campground.

The sites are primitive, but all had a tent pad, fire ring, and picnic table. All are heavily wooded, but the first ones are less private. All are right on the creek.

There’s a pit toilet, but it was so gross and stinky, I could not even walk in the door, so I’d say just plan to just use nature’s facilities!

Beautiful area, nice camping area if you like free primitive camping, and don’t mind some neighbors!

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Darrell N.

Scout

Reviewed Jun. 16, 2018

Hickey gap campground is beautiful.

This campground is very nice with private campsites. Each site is very close to Mill creek which is a stocked trout stream. The sites fill up fast because there is only 5 of them. Each site has a table, tent pad, and firering with grate.

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