Private cottage sites and community green space offer families and friends an unparalleled opportunity to experience the vast and diverse landscape of the southern Appalachians in the heart of Georgia's finest outdoor recreation country.

Whether you choose to sit quietly beside a mountain stream, putter in your garden, lace up your hiking boots or saddle your horse to take to the trails, Anderson Creek Retreat is your best antidote to life in the twenty first century.

Fishing
All property owners, through their membership in the Anderson Creek Club, enjoy fishing rights to Anderson Lake which boasts a healthy population of bass and bream.

Anderson Creek is a primary trout stream known for a hardy brown and rainbow trout population. Members of the Anderson Creek Anglers have exclusive access to Anderson Creek for catch-and-release fly fishing.

Other nearby trout waters include the Jacks River and the Conasauga River in the Cohutta Wilderness, Coopers Creek and Noontootla Creek and the headwaters of the Etowah River on Jones Creek.


Hiking
With more than 1,500 acres at Anderson Creek Retreat and another 750,000 acres of national forest next door, property owners have endless woods and trails to wander. The Appalachian Trail is just eight miles from Anderson Creek Retreat along the high ridge from Mountain Camp. The Benton Mackaye Trail is just three miles from the property.

Horseback Riding
Property owners can join the Anderson Creek Saddle Club, which offers partial ownership of a five-stall barn, more than 10 acres of pasture and access to miles of private trails. Additional pasture and barn facilities are planned in the future.

With or without a saddle club membership, you can enjoy the excellent Anderson Creek Retreat trail system and its forested mountain ridges, hardwood coves and trails along three different creeks. In addition, the Chattahoochee National Forest offers extensive trails at Jake and Bull Mountain, and there are more trails for your riding pleasure in the Cohutta Wilderness and Rich Mountain Wilderness.

Mountain Biking
Gilmer County is the "Moab of the East," with national mountain biking events held annually in the Cohutta Wilderness and the nearby Aska Trails Area. Anderson Creek Retreat has extensive single-track trails and old logging and wagon roads to ride on site, and the immediate area offers trails to challenge bikers of any skill level. Please see The Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association (SORBA) http://www.sorba.org/.

Whitewater Rivers
Whitewater adventure is convenient to Anderson Creek Retreat. Take your pick of rivers in three states, including the Ocoee River - site of the 1996 Olympic whitewater events - and the popular Nantahala River, with Class III rapids. Other rivers nearby are the Cartecay, Amicalola and Etowah. Appalachian Outfitters in Dahlonega (www.canoegeorgia.com) provides turnkey whitewater experiences.


Music, Crafts and Mountain Culture
Anderson Creek is in the southern Appalachians, a region known for its Scotch-Irish culture. This heritage is still evident today in the fiddlers, pickers, craftsmen and artists that call the area home.

Take classes from experienced artists at the John C. Campbell Folk School or The Penland School of Crafts. Or begin your own collection of Appalachian crafts while browsing shops featuring works of the artists of the Southern Highland Craft Guild. In the summer, enjoy Pickin' in the Park, a series of weekly live music performances along the Toccoa River in McCaysville.

Back To Top

	Note: Some documents on this site are in Adobe PDF format and marked with a icon. If  you do not have Adobe Acrobat installed you may download it here.