11.6 miles

Distance

2,712 ft

Climb

-2,720 ft

Descent

3,952 ft

High Point

Potential route to hit Avery and Bennett

Detailed Description

Avery via Buckwheat and Bennett is a 12 mile popular expert route located near Brevard North Carolina. This mountain bike only route. This route includes 2 trails. This route climbs 2,712 ft with a max elevation of 3,952 ft then descends -2,720 ft.

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Pisgah Area SORBA (www.pisgahareasorba.org)

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17 Reviews & Comments

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feekstar (Jun 27, 2022 at 10:02)

Trail Bennett Gap Trail

An actual, legit "black diamond" trail. A few rock hucks at the top that can be super tricky due to trees right after landing so most walk these couple features. After that it opens up and is tons of fun for all skill levels

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Nick0311 (May 8, 2022 at 16:19)

Trail Avery Creek Trail

No more 2 Tree trucks and a handrail to cross the creek at the bottom of the trail, take buckwheat instead.
Great trail

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zimm218

(Sep 12, 2021 at 9:13)

Trail Avery Creek Trail

Rode trail top to bottom, some spicier sections but nothing above advanced. It can be ridden without scoping for advanced riders.

This trail is heavily blown out, widened, eroded, and signs of neglect even though it is popular in the area. That may be the style of Pisgah area but for some it will be unpleasant riding style if you are used to normally maintained trails or professional built trails.

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BennetgapBen

(Aug 24, 2021 at 6:23)

Trail Avery Creek Trail

Looking to huck your meat? Ride Avery creek then.

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josesanchez89

TMBA (Apr 12, 2021 at 16:59)

Trail Bennett Gap Trail

Yet another epic trail in Pisgah. I hope they never allow work or any kind of maintenance on this awesome trail.

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provin1327

(Apr 4, 2021 at 18:10)

Trail Avery Creek Trail

This trail was fast and fun but the ending makes it just so so. Its a very wide trail filled with lots of loose baby heads.

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yoimaninja (Sep 8, 2020 at 6:42)

Trail Avery Creek Trail

Fast and fun descent with plenty of optional side hits and sendies! Really not that bad, I'd give it a blackish-blue rating compared to other nearby trails. But if you want to make it harder and gnarlier you can. Mega creek gap towards the end! Only complaint is the last mile hike out kinda sucks. Overall awesome trail and I'd consider it a "must-do".

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javadown1969

(Aug 28, 2020 at 12:12)

Trail Bennett Gap Trail

Started out at the Horse camp and climbed the gravel road up 3 miles to Bennetts Gap Trail head. The trail was perfect I think, just a few muddy sections and wet roots toward bottom. Be warned I almost ran over a huge rattle snake, I stopped to get a pucture and when I neared him(8 feet) he started to get aggressive and csme towards me, crazy. He was super thick and about 5 feet long. If he was just in the leaves you'd never known he was there, he blends in thar welll!

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benfin

(Jul 30, 2020 at 7:21)

Trail Bennett Gap Trail

Pucker up for this one if you arent expert. I followed my friend and some sections near the top had me say no way. The middle and bottom are a blast. Be careful. Many people walk their bikes at the top.

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LeoFaruq (Dec 31, 2019 at 17:47)

Trail Avery Creek Trail

After the maintence this auagust the trail has drastically changed carecter, the top is mostly wide and flowy with several Rock armoured sections due to drainage issues, there are multiple opprutinotes for doubles, but all of theese can just be rolled aside from the optional creek gap that has an obvious bypass. I wouldn't ride after rain, the bottom part of the trail adjacent to Avery Creek is very waterlogged and drys out slowly. Overall this trail is different to other Pisgah decents, it almost reminds me of bent creek, fun but best combined with other trails as the climb up is pretty long and strenuous.

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tubbnation

(Oct 23, 2019 at 4:24)

Trail Avery Creek Trail

Rode Avery on 10/19. Love the rework. Trail is now blue/black with optional black lines and one optional double black gap.

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Elblue

(Sep 8, 2019 at 17:36)

Trail Avery Creek Trail

The top two miles are awesome, though I walked a few sections that were above my pay grade. Last mile is ok but you lose any semblance of flow with the log bridge crossings.

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robmsul (Jul 15, 2019 at 16:31)

Trail Bennett Gap Trail

Two gnarly sections that you need to look out for. First is pretty early is a switchback turn on a mini boulder. A few minutes after is a technical approach to a decent drop with a tree to navigate immediately after landing. Check these out before hitting them. Other than that, you can ride the rest blind. Such a sick trail!

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atomsmom (Jun 15, 2019 at 13:48)

Trail Avery Creek Trail

Definitely don’t try to compare this to any blues in Bent Creek or DuPont. I feel like I’m an intermediate rider and there were plenty of sections that I carried my bike through. Doesn’t even begin to compare with things like Greenslick.

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LegitBiker9000 (May 10, 2019 at 8:34)

Trail Bennett Gap Trail

Another classic legit trail, you start out in a meadow and quickly traverse on top of a beutiful ridge through some western style rock gardens those being rock-gardens that you might want to eye out before you send it if it is your first time. I would not recommend doing the drop because you'll hit this tree and unlike a downhill park, you'll be sitting out there for a while as this trail is pretty high up, do not ride alone if it is your first time, the videos online don't explain just how difficult the trail actually is.

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LegitBiker9000 (Aug 11, 2018 at 12:58)

Trail Avery Creek Trail

This trail is unmaintained, terrible drainage. But who needs drainage right? Also not hard at all

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hrsjqb1

(Jul 20, 2017 at 20:05)

Trail Avery Creek Trail

I really wish I had read this before riding it....up. Doing this as a climb is just plain stupid. Calling this an Intermediate downhill section understates it quite a bit. The trail is not what we would call well built. It follows fall lines, seems to have little regard for water management and is too close to the water table at the bottom. It's a hikers trail that could be a good time to descend, but should be considered Intermediate Plus at least.

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Trails in Route

	Avery Creek Trail				3 miles
	Bennett Gap Trail				3 miles

Details

Riding area

Pisgah Ranger District
Primary Activity

Mountain Bike
Difficulty rating

Black Diamond
Ridelogs

1

More Stats for Avery via Buckwheat and Bennett mountain bike route

Altitude change

-8 ft
Altitude min

2,363 ft
Altitude start

2,547 ft
Altitude end

2,539 ft
Grade max

-122%
Grade min

65%
Distance climb

6 miles
Distance down

6 miles
Distance flat

446 ft

status	trail	date	condition	description
	Avery Creek Trail	Nov 13, 2022 @ 1:40pm Nov 13, 2022		Lower section is super muddy. Upper section is good.
	Bennett Gap Trail	Oct 29, 2022 @ 12:35am Oct 29, 2022		Love it, can’t wait to ride it again

Avery via Buckwheat and Bennett route

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