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Gilreath Creek
Lookout Mountain Georgia
Water Quality (1 bad 3 good)
Scenery (1 bad 3 good) 
Maps: Watershed Map (to find location and size of creek)
Click Here Special thanks to Steve Zerfos for making the map. Topo Map:
Click Here A special thanks to Randy Hale of NorthRiverGeographic for the map
Average Gradient 20 feet per mile
Location:
Page 21 of Alabama Gazetteer. That right :) your Alabama Gazetteer, you don't need the $12 dollars for a Georgia Gazetteer.
Overall Description:
Gilreath Creek is a little itty bitty creek that runs into the East Fork of the Little River on the Georgia border near Alabama. We found this creek by accident of all things. While lost, and looking for directions we asked some locals about another creek and they told us about Gilreath. Imagine a scene out of Deliverance...I'm not kidding they mentioned it first... it got reallllllly quiet for a moment. The Put-in: You need to be VERY DISCREET you are putting in someone's yard. You can find it on page 21 of your Alabama Gazetteer , off highway 157, look for Hemphill road. . The Put-in.....................................................................................................................................................................................
Take-Out: The take-out is very close to the Alabama-Georgia line , and you take out on Hwy 48-Hwy 117 (depending which state you are looking Alabama vs. Georgia) It's small in the beginning before it hits the East Fork of the Little River
Okay now you can take off on Hwy 48-Hwy 117...but keep you paddling clothes on and go huck this "drop" East Fork of the Little River.............................................................................................................................................................. Just over the border, after you cross the Alabama border, leaving Georgia on Hwy 48, take the first major left and follow it out all the way , you will come to a fork in the road, go right. Then park and huck this drop.
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