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.