Jack Branch Spur (NC-FSR486B)

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This road is not marked or signed. This is a short connector that allows one to connect Shad Road (TN-FSR422) to Polecat Hollow Road (FS#468). This road is NOT maintained.

If approaching from Shad Road (TN-FSR422), the entrance is almost impossible to find. Pay close attention on the left when approaching this approximate location. Off to the left there will be a faint opening with overgrowth. It does not look like any access is available here, but it is. Go into the opening and look for the old forest gate with the 'road closed' sign. Bushwhack through this area. If you try to go through the opening marked with the blue blaze and old rusty steel drum remnants, you have passed the entrance and gone too far.

You'll have to travel about 0.25 miles through dense brush until you reach a grassy field that is mowed during the growing season. When here, stay left and follow the maintained grassy forest road around the bend. This is the correct road. Continue to follow until reach the beginning of Polecat Hollow Road (FS#468), about 0.75 miles in.