Trail Overview
A long overland trail with plenty of recreational activities such as site-specific shooting areas, yellow post campsites and creek crossings. This is a well-maintained dirt road with some minor ruts, rocks and shallow creek crossings. It makes for a great day in the mountains South of Big Bear near Running Springs. It can be easily done in any 4x4.
Photos of 1N09 City Creek Trail
Difficulty
95% Of the trail is easy dirt road with minor ruts, rocks and shallow water crossings. 5% Of the trail does have deep ruts from rain and some hill descents accompanied by deep ruts.
Aaron Gorton
Entered 1N09 at Clark's Summit. The road was 2-3 difficulty up to Bear Creek Campground. Directly afterwards there is an 8-10 foot near vertical followed by hairpin turn followed by loose rocks with 2 foot ruts going up to the top of the cliff. The remainder of the trail to 330 was 5-6 difficulty with heavy erosion 1-2 foot ruts and some 3-4 foot loose dirt drops. Took approximately 5 hours
Joe Benelli
The first two miles onto old creek road off the 330 is relatively a 2/10 difficulty with a couple of small pits…you may have to tuck the sides of the road a bit if you don’t have the clearance for some of those pits, other than that trail maybe bumped up to a 3/10 once we got to bear creek with some mudded out trails.
Carlo M
Normal
Dusty
Rough/Deteriorated
We took Clark Summit from Seven Oaks Rd for a mile, then west on 1N64 Seven Pines. 1N64 west was extremely tight with lots of heavy shrubs and trees, (major pin striping), and rutted with some deep mud filled drops and bumper high exits. Mostly downhill westbound, but eastbound would be challenging ruts and uphill. We ended at Bear Creek, great location but lots of trash left behind, come on folks! We took 1N09 back east and it was a smooth dirt road with not real obstacles. Only tough spot was leaving Bear Creek incline with off camber soft dips. Pushed limited slip to try and make it, lockers helped push right through. Streams flowing pretty good, keep the trails clean please.
Mr Marc Cana
Dusty
Muddy/Wet
Rough/Deteriorated
The I forgot to add on some details, my brother and I decided to try our new Rivian and thought this trial would work well, in which it did. We car camped one night in bear creek. Would definitely recommend, there is a difficult spot right before the campsite (image 1) that requires clearance.(with 15inches we had enough but anything less would be tricky) We could tell the trails deteriorated quite the bit but other than some tough spots, and some possible rollover areas ( we reached some 22 degrees towards one side) it was a really beutiful trial and would recommend to anybody with an abled vehicle. There were small creek crossings which would not go over a foot, (maybe some 10-11 inches) we would definitely do this again.
