Mine Creek Rd

Total Miles
3.1

Elevation

850.46 ft

Duration

1 Hours

Technical Rating

Easy

Best Time

Summer

Trail Overview

Take some time to get away from the city and escape to the hills with this quick, rocky run. Stop for a picnic at Mine Creek, or take a shooting break in one of the large pullouts off the road. This road will be covered in snow during early spring and late fall, but is a great place to explore the woods, have a bonfire, and find the occasional view in summer. Don't bother making your way over or around the landslide in a full size vehicle, as the road is quite overgrown. After Mine Creek, you will have to make your way around a sharp turn that is heavily eroded with large, loose rocks and presents the most difficult obstacle of the road.

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Difficulty

The overall trail is easy enough for a high clearance vehicle. Rocks and ledges up to 12" can be avoided or rolled over at an angle.

Technical Rating

Status Reports

Can’t even make it to the start of the trail.

This trail is every bit of a level 3 compared to t57. The first little 3 foot hump isn’t to bad. But take it slow and you should be fine. honestly impressed by the dude with the Hyundai!!! Huge probability for pin striping extremely tight trail. basically no places to pass. Rocky the entire way. With steep and off cantered sections with loose sharp rocks. I Probly won’t go on this trail again Becuase cus it’s pretty sketchy in some spots. I didn’t air down and i didn’t have any trouble making it with my Land cruiser. I didn’t do the wholes trail (pic of the map is were I stopped) turned around at a fork in the road Becuase i wanted to hit middle fork on the way home.

Jeffrey Leung

Sep 22, 2024

2023 Hyundai Santa Cruz

Open

Normal

Very narrow, trail terrain varies: from dirt, gravel, rock, and mud. My buddy has a stock Nissan Frotnier, which has about 9.6inches of ground clearance, my Hyundai Santa Cruz has 8.6 inches of ground clearance. Half way through the trail, you will find a rusty old giant pipe sitting on some rocks, I’ve posted a picture of the map, this is where my Santa Cruz got stuck and didn’t feel comfortable going any further.

The lower trail has been logged and gates have been installed. From the gatekeeper obstacle (3 foot hump) the trail is pretty much as it was last year, mostly small loose, sharp rocks. Air down in logged area and you'll be fine. Potential for pinstripping is high.

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