The Cohutta Cat is named after the most viscious housecat you've ever met. The cat can be cute and lovable to you one minute, and the next she will be stalking the many dogs that call Mulberry Gap home. That's precisely what this route is: warm and fuzzy with amazing scenery one second; thigh-busting climbs and lengthy segments between resupply the next. 

 

The vision was to create a route that would be a shorter alternative for the Trans North Georgia. Thus the route avoids as much of the TNGA corridor as possible, while still giving riders a sample of what to expect. Another key component of the Cohutta Cat vision is to promote mountain bike tourism in the central mountains of North Georgia. From supporting Mulberry Gap to visiting the breweries of Blue Ridge, the route shows off some of the best that our state has to offer. 

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While you can start the route anywhere, I highly recommend you start and end at Mulberry Gap. This amazing mountain bike lodge has amazing food, cabins, camping, hot tubs, craft beer, and any other bike bits you might forget or need. You could also start and finish in downtown Blue Ridge at one of the great breweries and make Mulberry Gap your target during you're ride. Whether you start at Mulberry or Blue Ridge, you have lodging and resupply precisely at the half-way mark. 

 

Whether you blast the route wide open in 2 days or less, or take your time fishing the blue ribbon trout waters you'll be passing the entire route, the Cohutta Cat is an expression of the varied, unknown, beautiful, quirky, and extreme nature of the Southern Appalachians.