Porter Creek ~ New Trail

In the winter of 2007-08 a very large landslide took out an enormous section of trail above Iron Creek, it slid into the creek, backing it up and it eventually broke through and in that process it took out the bridge further down the creek. The state decided to block off that section of trail access for the horse, hikers and mountain bikers. Thankfully now 7 yrs. later some partial systems have been built into the south ridge section of these trails. Parking, (*see map below 019) for the horses, is in a large intersection of the road, C-1000 / B-line, the trail takes off from this point. Hikers and bicyclers can pretty much park and access multiple places.
The old trail system that brought you up on this ridge, started you down in the Hell Creek and Iron Creek bottom, and then you would climb from about 300 ft. to approx. 1300 ft. to the top of the ridge.

 In the map above you can see that north of the track is the creek bottom, that is where the trail used to access the ridge from, there is also another trail that came out of the creek bottom and went on north to Capital Peak. *not shown on above map

 Nice thing about riding and using this side of Capital Forest is the terrain is much more rugged than the east side, great climbs, and high ridge views.

 Just below this ridge view is where the winter 07-08 landslide was...

Beautiful trail through a clear cut, paralleling the C-1000

Great place to ride, bike, and hike Porter Creek area has lots to offer. Discover Pass required.

Capital Forest Mima TH

Capital Forest has miles and miles of beautiful trails to ride, hike, and bike on. The east side has Mima TH and Margaret McKinney TH for horse access, these TH's have horse camps too. On the north side there is Falls Creek Horse Camp it has very nice accommodations too.  To park at these locations you need a Discover Pass. 

The trails are very well maintained and used by all user groups, bicycles have become very popular in the last 8 to 10 yrs. in this area, but all users are very kind to one another and work together to keep trails safe for all .  

Several yrs. ago we stumbled on this enormous beaver pond, and it is quite the little treasure, it has grown exponentially since we first came upon it. It is a little off the beaten path, and one has to have some sense of adventure to even locate it, but it is very cool. 

As you can see from the picture below the trails are dog friendly too, a must for us trail riders !! All trails for the most part on the east side of CapFor are very well maintained. Back Country Horsemen and Bicycle Clubs are very active in keeping the trails in shape. 

Recently it was decided to keep a small Equine Loop open all yr. long to the horse people. 
All other trail systems are open to horses only from April ~ Nov. 30th 

Fall riding is full of beautiful colors .. 

Very diverse riding too, beaver ponds, reprod, tall timber, ol' decommissioned log roads, it is always ever changing.  

Beautiful places to ride, the west side of CapFor, used to be very popular too, but due to storm damage, the trails on that side have been let go, in the process of pushing to have those reopened and accessible again soon.