A Cold Hike!

We started the Gravel Springs Gap parking area on the Appalachian Trail (the upper pin on the map). Then headed south for 0.1 mile and turned left on the Bluff Trail. We switched back 0.3 miles down through a crowded forest to emerge at the Gravel Springs Hut (see blue GPS dot on the map). In front of us was a real spring and the trail shelter seen in the second photo.