Pinhoti Scout

Pin-Chin-Sky Loop

17.07 mi · ≈2,119 ft climbing · starts at Lake Chinnabee

The Pinhoti's most famous loop: three trails circling Lake Chinnabee in the Cheaha Wilderness — the Skyway along the old motorway ridge, the Pinhoti over the high country, and the Chinnabee Silent Trail back along the creek past Cheaha Falls. Most hikers give it a night or two.

McDill Point Loop

8.06 mi · ≈586 ft climbing · starts at Cheaha Pinhoti Trailhead

The classic Cheaha day loop: south on the Pinhoti over McDill Point — the sunset cliff in the app's photo — then back through the hardwoods on the Cave Creek Trail. Big views, one honest climb.

Johns Mountain Loop

3.02 mi · ≈510 ft climbing · starts at Keown Falls / Johns Mountain junction

Georgia's classic short loop: the Johns Mountain Trail circles the mountain on its own, touching the Pinhoti once at Mile 245.1 beside Keown Falls. Add the short Keown Falls Trail off the Pinhoti (Miles 246.1-246.3) to stand under the falls themselves.

Flagg Mountain Fire Tower

Every Pinhoti hike starts under this CCC-era stone fire tower on Flagg Mountain, the trail's southern terminus near Weogufka — climb it for the first big view of the 331 miles ahead.

Horn Mountain

A long ridgetop walk with an old lookout tower site — one of the quietest big-view summits on the Alabama side of the trail.

Odum Point

The cliff overlook where the Odum Scout Trail meets the Pinhoti, high over the Talladega country at the north end of the Pin-Chin-Sky loop country.

Cheaha Summit & Bald Rock

Cheaha Mountain is the highest ground in Alabama at 2,407 ft, and Bald Rock's boardwalk overlook just up the trail is the biggest view on the whole Pinhoti — and accessible from the park.

Keown Falls

Twin cascades on Johns Mountain near Villanow, where the trail climbs behind the 35-ft falls. Not on the Pinhoti — the trail passes about 7 miles east, near Mile 229 — but it's the Georgia section's favorite road side-trip. Flow is seasonal: go after rain.

Map legend

🛎️ Trail services

Shuttles, hostels and resupply points that serve Pinhoti hikers, south to north. Call ahead — small operations, schedules change. Tap 🛎️ Services above the map to see them as pins.

⚠️ Trail alerts

🌧️ Rain-based water outlook

An estimate from Open-Meteo rainfall history and USGS gauges. A recent hiker report at the exact source always outranks it.

File a report

Saw water running — or a dry creek, a blowdown, a great campsite? Pin it for the next hiker.

🗺️ Pick the spot on the map

Elevation profile

Low 574 ft · High 3,159 ft. ≈21,804 ft of climbing over the whole trail, Flagg Mountain to Georgia. Turn on GPS or tap a place and the orange marker shows where it sits.

💧 Water freshness

🗺️ Plan a hike

Pick two places (or type the miles) and a daily pace — the plan lines up each day with the nearest mapped camp or shelter and the water on the way. It saves on this phone, so it is still here (and works offline) at the trailhead.

📥 Offline maps

Download a stretch before you go and the map, trail line and reports work with no signal — handy in the Cheaha ridges and the Georgia hills. Downloads save to this phone only.

🥾 Side trails & alternates — new

The purple dashed lines on the map are 32 side trails and alternates — the Jones Branch Alternate, the Chinnabee and Cave Creek connectors, Keown Falls and the Johns Mountain Loop, the Pinhoti Horse Alternative, and more. Tap any purple line for its length, where it joins the Pinhoti, and a GPX download.

Trail lines come from OpenStreetMap contributors and the USDA Forest Service (public domain) — never copied from other apps.

📲 Put it on your home screen

On iPhone: tap the Share button, then “Add to Home Screen”. On Android: tap the menu, then “Install app”. It opens full-screen like a real app — and your offline downloads live there.