Memphis: Chickasaw Bluff
Stay found on this scantily marked 7.7-miler into hardwood forests and bird-filled swamps. This one-way trek ends at Poplar Lake in Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park.
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Trail Facts
- Distance: 12.4
Waypoints
CBT002
Location: 35.3650665283203, -90.0326309204102
Cross Jackson Hill Rd, look for white blaze a few dozen yards N on the other side of road.; path unclear ahead; continue SW.
CBT003
Location: 35.36181640625, -90.0386199951172
Trail goes SW along Chickasaw Bluff; work around deadfall
CBT004
Location: 35.3604164123535, -90.0418319702148
Keep an eye out for faded white blazes
CBT005
Location: 35.3583679199219, -90.045280456543
Trail becomes very faint in these flats; trail continues on L
CBT006
Location: 35.3540000915527, -90.0509796142578
More dead fall; scout woods for white blaze
CBT007
Location: 35.3529167175293, -90.0512161254883
Small concrete structure
CBT008
Location: 35.3520317077637, -90.0531692504883
Open field where wild turkeys often forage; trail follows old road bed for several hundred yards
CBT009
Location: 35.3414649963379, -90.0562133789062
Intersection with Woodland Trail, continue straight ahead (SW)
CBT010
Location: 35.3377342224121, -90.0558471679688
Woodland Trail Shelter; good spot for lunch; cross paved parking lot to the S; look for white & blue blaze
CBT011
Location: 35.3308181762695, -90.0581130981445
Cross Pleasant View Rd.; tall reeds line the trail
CBT012
Location: 35.3216514587402, -90.0607528686524
Pioneer Springs Shelter; clear spring bubbling up from a sandy bottom
CBT013
Location: 35.3076324462891, -90.0678939819336
End hike @ Poplar Tree Lake
CBT001
Location: 35.3665313720703, -90.0248336791992
Head S from camground, trail descends steeply downhill
