Scoping out a CW hike on TL trail early Oct 2022 from Timberline Lodge.
Question: Where are car access points to enable shortest daily miles w/ little or no gear? What would trail miles be for each segment? Dirt 2 track w/b ok if it’s not horribly rough for a 4WD pu truck.
Vehicle access to Timberline Trail
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Re: Vehicle access to Timberline Trail
Ramona Falls TH is a couple miles from TT. Paved road with 0.1 mile of gravel.
Cloudcap TH is on TT. 9 mile obnoxious gravel road.
Mount Hood Meadows is a couple miles from TT. Paved road. Sometimes they close a gate a couple miles further from TT
The field guide has detailed info - click on "field guide" above...
Cloudcap TH is on TT. 9 mile obnoxious gravel road.
Mount Hood Meadows is a couple miles from TT. Paved road. Sometimes they close a gate a couple miles further from TT
The field guide has detailed info - click on "field guide" above...
Re: Vehicle access to Timberline Trail
There's also Top Spur trailhead, which is closer to TT than Ramona Falls TH unless I'm reading my map wrong.
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Re: Vehicle access to Timberline Trail
oh, yeah, I forgot that. Maybe 1/2 mile from TH to PCT/TT
the road isn't too bad - about 3 miles of narrow paved, 2 miles of gravel, but it's pretty good
the road isn't too bad - about 3 miles of narrow paved, 2 miles of gravel, but it's pretty good
Re: Vehicle access to Timberline Trail
If you're hiking with only a small amount of gear, I assume you can get around the mountain in three solid days. Clockwise would be ending day 1 Top Spur, ending Day 2 at Cloud Cap, and back to Timberline to end Day 3. Not sure of trail miles off the top of my head, but it's a pretty even distribution across the days.
There really aren't any good ways to break it into four days without having one or two of them being long and the other two being really short, or adding multiple miles down another access trail.
And I've driven my 2WD hatchback up to Cloud Cap many times, the road isn't nearly as bad as many other forest roads you could find yourself on.
There really aren't any good ways to break it into four days without having one or two of them being long and the other two being really short, or adding multiple miles down another access trail.
And I've driven my 2WD hatchback up to Cloud Cap many times, the road isn't nearly as bad as many other forest roads you could find yourself on.
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