Trail Overview
4-2 is a moderate dirt bike trail in the Rock Creek Trail System. The southern end starts out as a shaded wide path climbing up from the south entrance, in between scraggly manzanita trees. Watch for root bands across the trail, small loose rocks, dips, bumps, and a bit of embedded rock. The trail weaves tightly through the trees, and has a couple steeper climbs that are full of loose rock that make the trail a bit more technical. There are big loose bowling ball sized rocks filling in the ruts, with natural stair steps a foot high or so from the embedded rocks and roots and troughs. It intersects with Trail 4-3 about halfway through, turning into a wider road-width segment, then narrowing up again in the trees after the intersection, and continuing to curve tightly through the manzanita bushes. The trail gets narrower and slightly harder in the northern half, with a few more rocky climbs and descents, big embedded boulders, and piles of loose rock. The last section before the north entrance is the narrowest, with really tight corners through the trees.
Difficulty
This is a moderate dirt bike trail with lots of tight, narrow tree corridors and rocky sections with big embedded boulders and loose rocks. Most of the trail is rated as "Moderate" by the Forest Service, but the most northern portion is rated as "Most Difficult" due to the tight, rocky nature of the trail.
