South Mountain Clear Creek Access - Moderate Hike

We'll start off taking the Clear Creek Trail. A 2.2 mile out & back (4.4 miles total). It's listed as moderately strenuous, but we will be taking a very leisurely pace and stopping along Clear Creek on the way up. There's an 800' elevation gain, much of it on the second half, thus the rating.

For those who want to extend the hike, there's an easy 1.3-mile loop around the lake that we can add at the end.

If you're looking for a chance to show off how tough & fit you are, sorry, this isn't it. Slow & easy will be the rule of the day.

After the hike, we can pick a place in Morganton for a bite to eat if anyone is interested.

The parking lot is not very big, so I'm putting a limit of 12 on this. And if some can carpool that might be helpful. The lot was not full on the day we checked this out; be it was muggy with a chance of rain that day.

Coordinates are: 35.64309139095407, -81.75290000168587