Climbing Near Gainesville, Georgia

     Cherokee Bluffs was a locally known little bluff on private property where people would come hang out and party.  Most of the boulder problems here were climbed before it was developed into a park.  The history of who did what first on the majority of the problems is unknown.  Since becoming a park, the area has become very popular and you'll most often have people walking the trails while you're bouldering. There are a handful of quality lines here.  However, the majority of the rock is lower quality with many problems utilizing hollow crumbly flakes down low that continue to exfoliate or break.  The top outs tend to have solid quality rock.       The hardest known established line is a V11 (#23) that has an eliminate start (V8/V9 without the eliminate start) on the left of the main roof feature.  There are a handful of V4-6 problems and the remainder of the area offers easy/moderate problems.  One of the better problems here is a V4 (#18).  There is a V1 (#19) that is popular that follows hollow jug flakes up the right side of the main roof with an exciting V2 (#20) extension that traverses the lip of the roof out left.  Be cautious when pulling on many of the flake jugs and crimps on any of the overhung sections due to the poor quality rock.       There is a PDF guide that was put together a few years back that covers many, but not all of the problems here.  No names were given to any of the problems but they do have numbers and descriptions.   Cherokee Bluffs park in Flowery Branch, GA. Behind hiking trail, down to the left past the parking lot.

Park at Buford Dam Lower Pool East ($5) Take BE01-BE02-BE03-BE04 Trails(via TrailRunProject) till adjacent with Bowman Island. All of Longhouse Roof is between Rising Water signs G15-G19

The lowest rocks on the hill. It has a lot of bits of quartz in it and some of the holds are pretty thin. On the trail just past G17 right before Clear Cut wall.