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Blankets Creek Trail System (Blanket's Creek Blankets Creek)

Mountain Biking Trail

Moderate
12.22 mi
1,204 ft
The most popular trail system in the Atlanta Metro Area offers trails for every breed of mountain biker.

Blankets Creek is renowned as the most popular mountain bike trail system in the greater Atlanta area. While located a respectable ways outside of the city center, the high quality, well-built singletrack trails in this network attract riders from all over the Atlanta Metro Area. It’s quite common to roll up to the trailhead on a weekend and not even be able to find a place to park, causing cars to spill out onto the road.

Should that dissuade you from riding the trails here? Maybe… but this network is popular for a very good reason. SORBA Woodstock has done a great job building these trails, and they maintain them to a very high standard. In fact, they’ve rebuilt the Van Michael trail to make use of modern trail building techniques to improve the flow and sustainability.

Since this network features multiple trails, there’s something here for just about every rider. Whether you’re a complete beginner and just stick to the easy Mosquito trail, to a more advanced rider tackling the rigors of Van Michael, or even a full-blown dirt jumper throwing down on the big doubles of The Holler, Georgia’s red clay beckons shredders of all stripes to flock from the city out into the rolling hills along the shores of Allatoona Lake. Written by Greg Heil
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Route and Elevation

Segments

NameDistanceElev. Diff.Avg. Grade
Easy there lightnin'0.25 mi89 ft6.8%
Mosquito Right Side - Eloise0.31 mi-13 ft-0.4%
Blankets CCW - VMT to End of South Loop10.64 mi161 ft0.2%
VMT CCW3.13 mi-184 ft-0.1%
VMT 3.0 Main Loop2.95 mi-180 ft-0.1%
VMT CCW no 420/K3.31 mi-30 ft-0.1%
VMT CCW First Half (ends top of mtn)1.05 mi161 ft2.7%
Blankets: Van Michael CCW (no 420 climb or Kevorkian Pass)2.84 mi-171 ft-0.2%
Van Micheal CounterClockWise SS3.41 mi-187 ft-0.2%
VMT - CCW - W/ 420 Climb3.93 mi-177 ft-0.1%
VMT CCW 2019 - Minus 420 and KP3.28 mi-167 ft-0.0%
VMT Counterclockwise3.52 mi194 ft0.3%
VMT - CCW, Climb from MF1.22 mi135 ft2.1%
VMT TR2.71 mi-46 ft-0.2%
VMT CCW 5/21043.25 mi-184 ft-0.5%
V-M-T CCW Quick DH#10.17 mi-79 ft-8.2%
U4DS-BL10.32 mi-66 ft-3.8%
VMT Hurl Hill Climb (Creek to Bench)0.55 mi157 ft5.0%
VMT CCW DH From Benches at Summit0.26 mi-105 ft-7.7%
VMT CCW West section0.80 mi-98 ft-0.4%
VMT DH0.34 mi-98 ft-5.4%
VMT CCW Downhill close to the end0.30 mi-98 ft-5.5%
Blankets Creek Enduro: Stage VMT1.33 mi-148 ft-1.9%
VMT Super D0.77 mi-121 ft-3.0%
Real Kevorkian Uphill0.29 mi92 ft0.4%
U4DS-BL4 0.51 mi-75 ft-2.7%
Dwelling CCW up2.32 mi144 ft1.2%
Dwelling CCW to South Connector3.39 mi148 ft0.3%
Dwelling start to second bench1.50 mi89 ft0.2%
Dwelling CCW Climb (Bench to Bench)0.81 mi105 ft2.2%
CCW (SAT) - Dwelling Bench to Bench with trail reroute (2022)0.96 mi49 ft0.9%
Catch Kris1.15 mi-95 ft-0.1%
Climb Loop1.22 mi98 ft0.1%
Dwelling CCW Bench DH Chute .4mi0.35 mi-92 ft-4.7%
Kris True South Loop/CCW4.42 mi-105 ft-0.1%
South Loop CounterClockwise3.63 mi-108 ft-0.0%
South Loop CCW First Half1.56 mi79 ft0.4%
Dream Crusher Climb0.50 mi75 ft2.5%
South Loop CCW Last half1.79 mi-79 ft-0.2%
South Loop Last Half (corrected)2.12 mi164 ft1.1%
Rip legs 0.48 mi59 ft1.1%
Witches Teets0.57 mi-59 ft-0.3%
SL qtr mile0.25 mi-79 ft-5.5%
Poop Shoot0.20 mi-49 ft-4.8%
QuellHoller0.15 mi-43 ft-5.2%
Schultz Chute Downhill0.17 mi-46 ft-5.1%
Speedway0.15 mi-7 ft-0.8%
mosquito left side - eloise0.34 mi13 ft0.6%