Marble Creek Trailhead

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Marble creek trailhead.

The old splash dam and old structures on marble creek. A fine day hike or overnight backpack the marble creek trail no. Views from trail 251 prior to meeting 261 are few and far between. The trail then crosses marble creek imagine small river not creek in a big snow year.

Note that as this road winds up with multiple bends there are high water bars that require clearance to navigate. This is a true river trail up and down into and. Check website for details. The trail rides the ridge as long as it can before using some switch backs to reach marble creek.

Marble creek in all its glory. Camping is available at many locations along the route. Continue on marble creek road which becomes fr 6510 for another 7 7 miles until you reach a saddle and the pullout on the left at the signed marble pass trailhead. Lots of flowers on trail 261.

The marble creek section of the ozark trail is an eight mile segment extending to crane lake where it connects with the five mile crane lake national recreation trail. View east in dramatic evening light with long shadows. Open to motorbikes but recommended for advanced riders. From baker city oregon north on highway 30 to northrn edge of town to pocahontas road.

Trail 261 is part of the marble creek trail system and features fishing opportunities in marble creek remnants of cabins historical logging sites and good huckleberry picking when they are in season. Marble creek camp 3 is a nice horse facility about 13 miles off the paved st. Grandmother mountain view an elevation profile of the trail. A tributary just before meeting marble creek.

Forest road 6510 is very rough steep and narrow. Private land blocks the path in both directions so until easements or purchases are negotiated the final route between the two is uncertain. At the intersection with delaney creek trail 271 take a left nnw and the second part of the trail begins. Campground on cranberry creek and marble creek in st.

Joe nf grandmother mtn. Turn left west on pocahontas road and go about 7 miles to the marble creek road becomes forest road 6510. 261 features fishing opportunities in scenic marble creek remnants of cabins historical logging sites and good huckleberry picking when they are in season. Turn left on marble creek road and go for 9 miles to the top of the ridge to the trailhead.

Ferns on trail 261. From here you can ride a beautiful set of trails which take you into the old logging camps and past the haunting splash dams. The marble creek trail is the little orphan of the ozark trail laying half way between the taum sauk and wappapello sections waiting to be connected. Marble creek at the upper crossing.