Page Updated: November 21, 2023
Grandfather Trail to Calloway Peak
Grandfather Mountain State Park
JUN 2022
5.5+ mile out & back - 1400 ft elev gain - hard
Our route included Bridge Trail, Mile High Swinging Bridge, Raven Rocks, and the Grandfather Trail Extension.
Great hike for which I was a little unprepared. My tracker died. My phone camera flaked out. And AllTrails decided to push an update (bless their hearts) in the middle of the hike causing my app crashed. The stats listed above are minimal numbers.
Technical and having features we’d not yet encountered, it was exciting and challenging.
POINTS OF NOTE:
Hikers must park in the bottom lot and hump it roughly 170ft elv to the Grandfather Trail Head.
Raven Rocks is a discrepancy; this trail is marked Underwood on the mountain.
There is no AllTrail trek option for the route we took as a whole. We started the Bridge Trail head at 8:45 - explored the Mile High Swinging Bridge to the end - hit the Grandfather Trail Head (permit required) at 9:30ish - and hiked the charted path to Calloway Peak. On the backtrack, we took the Raven Rocks/Underwood Trail - rejoined the main trail - and then took the Grandfather Trail Extension directly to the lower lot, arriving at 3ish.
All hikers must be off the mountain and at their vehicles by 6pm..
Attic Window has the perfect platform for lunch!
happy hikng!
-b&b
Grandfather Mountain
