Forsyth Sheriff closes Union Hill Road after traffic incident, urges detours

A stretch of Union Hill Road was shut down after a traffic incident, pushing drivers onto alternate routes in south Forsyth while the Sheriff’s Office gave no additional details about what happened. Alerts went out through the county’s Everbridge notification system, and the closure covered 1360-10K Union Hill Road.

The shutdown landed on a road that many Forsyth drivers already know for repeated access changes. Officials have said Union Hill Road traffic will be shifted in both directions starting Sept. 14 for an estimated three months to make way for road widening. That work is planned between the Hollybrooke Subdivision entrance and Tidwell Road, with one lane kept open in each direction.

The same corridor also saw another major reopening this month when the Big Creek Greenway Phase 2 trail and trailhead at Union Hill, 5259 Union Hill Rd., reopened for public use on April 1. That section had been closed since May 2020 for ground-up renovations, leaving a long-running gap at one of the county’s most traveled recreation access points.

The renovated Greenway segment includes about one mile of existing boardwalk from the Union Hill Trailhead to Fowler Park, part of the broader 16-mile Big Creek Greenway that runs from Halcyon to Sawnee Mountain Preserve. For drivers, cyclists and families trying to move through the area, Union Hill has become a place where road work, trail access and traffic control collide.

Forsyth County has said residents can track road closures and incident alerts through the Sheriff’s Office road-closures map and the Everbridge notifications system. With no further details released about the April 12 traffic incident, the closure added another interruption to a corridor already shaped by construction, reopening and detours.