A guide to the Many Trails Along the Chattahoochee River.

 

Allenbrook

For a full guide on Allenbrook, click here.

Colorful leaves and a rocky outcropping at Allenbrook.

Trail Overview

  • Trail Name: Allenbrook

  • Distance: 1 mile, although some have stretched to 1.7 miles

  • Difficulty: Easy

  • Location: Roswell

  • Family-Friendly: Yes

  • Dog-Friendly: Yes

  • Entrance Fee: $5 or $40 for an annual pass

Cochran Shoals

For a full guide on Cochran Shoals Interstate North, click here.

View of Chattahoochee River from the Cochran Shoals Trail

Trail Overview

  • Trail Name: Cochran Shoals River Loop

  • Distance: 3.1 Miles, 11.4 miles of available hiking trails.

  • Difficulty: Easy

  • Location: Marietta

  • Family-Friendly: Yes

  • Dog-Friendly: Yes

  • Entrance Fee: $5 or $40 for an annual pass

Gold Branch Trail

For a full guide on Gold Branch, click here.

View of Bull Sluice Lake through the trees at Gold Branch.

Trail Overview

  • Trail Name: Gold Branch Trail

  • Distance: 3.2 Miles, 4.7 miles of hiking trails available.

  • Difficulty: Easy

  • Location: Marietta

  • Family-Friendly: Yes

  • Dog-Friendly: Yes

  • Entrance Fee: $5 or $40 for an annual pass

Island Ford

For a full guide on Island Ford, click here.

View of fall leaves and river at Island Ford. A man is fishing in the middle of the river.

Trail Overview

  • Trail Name: Island Ford

  • Distance: 2 Miles. 5.3 miles of trail available.

  • Difficulty: Easy

  • Location: Marietta

  • Family-Friendly: Yes

  • Dog-Friendly: Yes

  • Entrance Fee: $5 or $40 for an annual pass

Johnson Ferry North

For a full guide on Johnson Ferry North, click here.

View of bright yellow fall leaves looking up at them to the sky at Johnson Ferry North.

Trail Overview

  • Trail Name: Johnson Ferry North

  • Distance: 1.8 miles, 2.4 miles of hiking trails available.

  • Difficulty: Easy

  • Location: Marietta

  • Family-Friendly: Yes

  • Dog-Friendly: Yes

  • Entrance Fee: $5 or $40 for an annual pass

Johnson Ferry South

For a full guide on Johnson Ferry South, click here.

Fall trail full of brown leaves and surrounded by skinny trees at Johnson Ferry South Trail.

Trail Overview

  • Trail Name: Johnson Ferry South

  • Distance: 1 Mile

  • Difficulty: Easy

  • Location: Marietta

  • Family-Friendly: Yes

  • Dog-Friendly: Yes

  • Entrance Fee: $5 or $40 for an annual pass

Powers Island Trail

For a full guide on Powers Island, click here

Log floating in water at Powers Island Trial during Winter.

Trail Overview

  • Trail Name: Powers Island Trail

  • Distance: 1.6 miles, option for 2.6 miles

  • Difficulty: Easy – moderate (some pockets of elevation)

  • Location: Sandy Springs

  • Family-Friendly: Yes

  • Dog-Friendly: Yes

  • Entrance Fee: $5 or $40 for an annual pass

Sope Creek Paper Mill Ruins

For a full guide on Sope Creek Paper Mill Ruins, click here.

View of the old paper mill ruins at Sope Creek.

Trail Overview

  • Trail Name: Sope Creek Trail Paper Mill and Pond Loop

  • Distance:  1.5 Miles Round Trip, 6.6 miles of available hiking or biking trails.

  • Difficulty: Easy

  • Location: Marietta

  • Family-Friendly: Yes

  • Dog-Friendly: Yes

  • Entrance Fee: $5 or $40 for an annual pass

Vickery Creek

For a full guide on Vickery Creek, click here.

View of the waterfall at Vickery Creek during twilight.

Trail Overview

  • Trail Name: Vickery Creek 

  • Distance: 4.7 Miles, 6.6 miles of available

  • Difficulty: Semi-Moderate

  • Location: Roswell

  • Family-Friendly: Yes

  • Dog-Friendly: Yes

  • Entrance Fee: $5 or $40 for an annual pass

 

Happy Hiking!

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