Sandy Springs Opens Lost Corner Hiking Trail For 'Light' Use

Sandy Springs Conservancy announced on Wednesday that the city of Sandy Springs has opened the hiking trail at Lost Corner Nature Preserve.

The organization said the city has opened the hiking trail for “light community use,” according to a post on its Facebook page.

The trail will be open from dawn to dusk everyday until early 2015 when the parking lot will be constructed. That will be followed by a grand opening of the park and cottage later in the year.

“We hope you will take an hour or so to visit Lost Corner Nature Preserve and hike the gently rolling trail,” the Conservancy wrote. “At just short of a mile long, the trail winds through gorgeous woodlands and across picturesque streams.”

Parking is available on the wood chipped areas. The two outside bathrooms on the west side of the cottage are open, but the rest of the cottage remains closed. Residents will be able to access the trail behind the cottage on the west side or look for the trail sign off the entrance road.

The trail’s entrance is located near the intersection of Brandon Mill and Dalrymple and Riverside roads.

The conservancy provided the funding match to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Trail grant made available to the city earlier this year. Friends of the Lost Corner was created in conjunction with the city to help transform the 24-acre property into a park.

Our funds are the residual of a major fundraising effort we launched in 2007 with the Trust for Public Land to help secure the 24-acre property.

It became a city park in 2008.

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