Dahlonega Trail Fest

08/11/2024

08/03/2024

Yahoola Outdoors Dockery Lake Trail Work Day on Sunday, August 11. Dockery Lake is a US Forest Service Campground and Day Use Area 20 minutes north of Dahlonega. We will be working to clear drains across the trail and on improving the picnic area. If interested, email [email protected].

06/27/2024

Dockery Lake is a US Forest Service Campground in Lumpkin County with a picnic area, stocked lake, a trail around the lake, and a 3.5 mile connector trail to the Appalachian Trail. Yahoola Outdoors (the organization that puts on the Dahlonega Trail Fest) maintains the Dockery Lakeshore Trail and the day use area. Join us for a work day to take of the trail, clean the drains, and do other general work on Saturday, July 13. We will provide snacks and cold drinks, training, hard hats, and a day of fun and giving back to our community. If interested in joining us that day, send a message through this page.

03/07/2024

This is a tough, but fun 5k/10k trail run. Some of the proceeds will go towards supporting the efforts of Yahoola Outdoors in building, maintaining and improving local trail systems and other outdoor recreation resources. Runners and Volunteers needed.

Most of you guys know us for really hard, dumb s**t. But when we aren’t putting on those ‘Type B’ races, we do a little community partnering and host races that the majority of the population would find far more reasonable. 🤓
The first of those races will be Saturday, April 6th at Montaluce Winery with a 5k/10k trail run that benefits Yahoola Outdoors. This non-profit is responsible for maintaining some local sections of the AT as well as helping with trail building and maintenance at our local favorite Lake Zwerner trail.

If you’d like to sign up for and run this race and help us support our local trail maintenance group, awesome. We love you for that. Equally awesome, if you’d like to be a stellar volunteer the morning of the race, we’d love that too! As an added incentive for the latter, the first three folks to reach out (and show up) to volunteer will get free entry into Bull Mountain Epic this October (13.1 ams 50k distances are up for grabs!).

comment, DM, email, contact us via the contact form on our website if you'd like to help!

09/18/2023

Well, another Dahlonega Trail Fest in the books. Started out with good traffic, but around 11:00 am the rain moved in and ran everybody off. Closed up early after heavy rain started at 2:00 and turned the park mucky. It’s the crapshoot of putting on a festival. Oh, well; next year……

09/15/2023

Check out the Dahlonega Farmers Market on Park Street right beside Hancock Park when at Trail Fest. Take home some locally produced goodies after your TF experience.

09/14/2023

The program is now posted on the website:

09/14/2023

Thursday evening at Shenanigans Irish Pub - Dahlonega: Appalachian Trail and Outdoor Adventure Trivia. A special edition of Thursday night trivia at north Georgia's favorite Irish Pub. Both rounds will have Appalachian Trail and outdoor adventure themes. Come pit your hiking, boating, mountain biking, camping, and other recreation knowledge against our regular teams. 1st place each round: $20 of Shenanigans bucks. 2nd place each round: $10 of Shenanigans bucks. First round at 7:00 pm, second round at 8:00 pm. Hosts: Tom and Murray Lamb.

09/14/2023

Support our 2023 Sponsors. See them here:

09/13/2023

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09/12/2023

Our beverage tent features only Georgia made products: Liquid Nation Brewing beers, Urban Tree Cidery ciders, and Naturally Georgia wines.

09/12/2023

Check out our Food and Beverage choices for Saturday here:

09/11/2023

Here is the speaker schedule for the day!

Mark Warren Author, Naturalist, and Director of Medicine Bow Seeing the Forest Through the Eye of the Native Americans 12:00 The Forest’s Gifts of Food, Medicine and CraftAs Practiced By the Native Americans 3:00 Hancock Park Main Stage

09/05/2023

Check out our major sponsors for the 2023 Dahlonega Trail Fest and sign up to volunteer for a shift to help put on this awesome event!

Come join us in Dahlonega as we celebrate Dahlonega's designation as an AT Trail Community and our connection with the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail. Trail Fest, a project of Yahoola Outdoors, is a festival of outdoor enthusiasts revolving around all aspects of non-motorized recreation:...

09/01/2023

Urban Tree Cidery is back as a sponsor of Trail Fest and our exclusive cider selection in the beverage tent! Come by and have some GREAT cider at our event.

09/01/2023

Sign up for volunteers is now active. Join us for a few hours to help put on Trail Fest! A free sack lunch and a free beverage from the Beverage Tent!

https://m.signupgenius.com/ #!/showSignUp/60B0E49ABAA29ABF85-2022