George W. Disney Trail — Attraction in Georgia

This is a difficult, strenuous, steep and rocky hike best for experienced hikers, who are in decent shape (or for the young, like under 35. :)

To get there just map to Dalton First Church of the Nazarene. You will see their sign and steep driveway. Go up the driveway and pass the church up to the next building, which is their Life Center. You will see a parking lot and the trailhead just past that building.

The whole way up the trail you just basically bear left, including when you get to the rocky outcropping near the top. You will need to climb over the rocks, which is easiest at the first (left) part. Once on top of the rocks you've come to the first excellent view of the valley below and the mountains beyond. But you can keep going (left) to see the old grave.

A review from 2 years ago has a pic of the headstone on the grave and intact. Then a reviewer from 1 year ago shows a photo of the headstone still there but broken by vandals. Today, the headstone wasn't even there. So sad that anyone would disrespect the deceased, regardless who they were in life. And to think it was respected since the 1800's up until just recently. smh

Back out onto the trail keep going until you reach the benches. Someone previously posted there's a podium there. Well that's gone too. What's next? The benches?? haha! Anyway, there's a great view there too.

Continuing on the trail along the ridge you can eventually fork right to go up to another clearing (without a good view) or can fork left to head back down the other side? Not sure if that goes all the way down; we turned around at that point. Be careful coming back down because it's slippery even when dry.

As always, take water and a charged cell phone at the least and let someone know where you're going if you're...

I had a hard time finding the trailhead. I didn't know it was at the back of the church parking lot. Google Maps took me to a different parking lot out in front of the state patrol post next door and it did look like there's a footpath beginning from there that would lead to the actual Trailhead which would give you a little bit more distance and elevation.

Also there were a couple parts of the trail that were hard to follow. Most of the trail is well worn and easy to see but there are no painted hash marks or anything. As you get up towards the top to the first rock outcropping there's several side trails that people have created on their own and if you get on those it's easy to end up in the middle of the Woods bushwhacking..

As you approach the first big rock outcropping go uphill all the way to the Rock. Turn right. The trail runs right along the base of that rock...

Well, the trail is definitely like other Trail users have described it... Very Steep in many sections, beautiful views, but the one thing that I would add is more to tell around the distance of the trail. The trailhead sign says that it is 2.4 miles, but is not super clear if that is one-way or round-trip. You can pretty much start getting decent views at a half-mile up, and the trail continues from there. I ended up going 1 mile out, and 1 mile back, and got to see what I imagine are the best views, but you could still go further at that mile point...just not sure exactly how much further. All in all, I would recommend the trail, but keep the difficulty...