16EV258

This short trail goes into a thick forested corridor as it departs from trail 16EV407. The trail is covered in a lot of bony and sharp loose rocks, climbing up a dry and sun-exposed hillside, over all the loose rock, making it hard to maintain traction and not get pinged around. It goes through a really tight section of bushes and curves around several downed logs. It’s somewhat faint in the trees, and there’s a right turn that’s easy to miss, where riders have piled up some logs to prevent you from going the wrong way. There are several cow trails in the area, so it can get confusing. It crosses a couple of dry rocky ravines, climbs up another loose rocky hillside, then curves through the trees a bit more before coming to an intersection with 16EV259. This is a quick trail to add for extra mileage when starting or ending your ride from the Deer Creek Staging Area. This trail is seasonally closed 12/16 – 4/14 to motorized use.