How to get to Corpsewood Manor

If you're a fan of using Google Maps for navigation, you'll be surprised to know their directions to the Corpsewood Manor Parking site is way off. The actual latitude and longitude coordinates to the parking area are below:

34.553130 -85.246294

The easiest way to access the parking area is from Trion. Travel north from Trion along Hwy 27 until you reach Mountain View Road. Go right (west) on Mountain View Road until you reach The Narrows Road. Take a right (south) on Black Springs Creek Road until you reach the parking area. Park on the left before the two large rocks.

The two boulders that block entrance to Dead Horse Road at the Corpsewood Manor Parking area.

From here, walk about half a mile along Dead Horse Road. Eventually you'll wind around to the left and see a large rock retaining wall along the left side of the road.

A stone retaining wall is visible along the bend. Apart from the road itself, this is the first evidence of manmade landscaping.

You'll see a large hill off to your right with many dead trees on top of it. It seems the trees are blighted here and have been for some time. I believe this is the reason Charles Scudder named the property Corpsewood. You'll notice the sky is much more clear as the forest canopy opens here.

You're getting close when you find more than half a dozen fallen trees that block your path. Continue on the main trail until the foliage gets very thick. The brick remains of the manor are in the dense vegetation area.

If you look closely along the path you'll start to see manmade steps made from rocks, rock boundary indicators on each side of the path and more. There is also a giant depression where a manmade pond once sat. The round shape of the lake is bounded by rocks on every side.

Once you find the lake or pass the dead tree hill you're very close. Corpsewood Manor is far easier to find in the winter.

Here's a LiDAR image of Corpsewood. Minus the vegetation could can clearly see the road in, deadhorse road, the area of the bend with the stone retaining wall (pic above) and the circular pond depression.