Towels Branch (FR 912) in GA -- Camping Rules & Access

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Towels Branch (FR 912) in GA

Road corridorChattahoochee-Oconee NFs

11 mi from Gray

1.5 mi off US 23 (straight line)

Maps 469 ft

Dispersed camping generally allowed

U.S. Forest Service default; a local order can restrict it.

Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest ↗

Stay limit: 14 days · within 30 days · Then leave the forest
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Road Access

Moderate
  • All 1.1 miles of this road are maintained for passenger cars, gravel the whole way.
  • Near Jarrell Plantation State Historic Site.
  • Terrain estimates suggest level ground alongside most of this road; parking areas are not verified.
  • A gate at the start of the road.

Setting

Some privacy
  • Moderately separated here.
  • Open country, with nothing named rising within 30 miles.
  • A river runs 0.9 mi off.
  • Estimated night sky: Bortle 3, a dark rural sky.

Rules

  • Camping or maintaining a campsite on National Forest System lands within any area of the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest exceeding an aggregate of 14 days in any 30-day period is prohibited.
  • Camping rules

Climate averages

October normals 52–77°F, 2.9″ precipitation. Monthly averages, PRISM 1991–2020.