Cinnamon Pass

We started on the west side of the trail coming from Engineer Pass. It was very steep and rough on that side and throughout the west half of the trail. Slow going and you'll need to pick your line carefully. Shelf roads for part of the route. We saw a lot of SxS's and a few Jeeps and full size trucks. Was very beautiful! The tundra was in bloom and we even saw a few deer just off the trail. The were smoothing the west half of the trail with a dozer as we went through. Once you reach the Silver Creek/Grizzly Gulch trailhead its easy going the rest of the way. I noticed the difficulty was raised from a 1 to 3. 3 difficulty is definitely more accurate for the west half.

It was more difficult to get to Cinnamon Pass than to get up it, with the exception of the first 100 yards after you turn the corner up the pass from Animas Forks. The first hundred yards required carefully picking a line so that I did not scrape in my unmodified OEM SUV with just under 8" of ground clearance. I was able to make it without any contact on the skid plates. The rest of the ascent was easy. Others I met at the top had come from Lake City saying it was clear all the way. Alpine tundra was not in bloom yet but it was still beautiful.

Open and mostly dry trail from Lake City to Animas Forks to Silverton.

We hit the trail a few hours after Lake City got about 3 inches of snow. The road by the lake had already melted but halfway up Shelf road still had wet snow. Not impassable by any means but we didn’t want to get to a place were we couldn’t turn around

I find the trail description is probably true for most of the length of the route, however there is a fairly large ledge (18-24”) on the first switchback going east from the pass (towards Lake City) that makes this a more challenging path.

Did this twice in my Rivian R1S, once in the morning and then again later in the evening. Later in the evening it was raining pretty hard, the only other vehicle up there with us was a GX 550, which ironically enough also did it twice today. I heard some other people down in animas Forks say that the West side of this pass is more difficult, I thought they were equally difficult, just a little different.

Trail was really fun and easy only one technicalish spot on a switchback on the Lake City side

Trail was very fun to ride! There was a group of 5 of us that cruised right through.

Second time running Cinnamon Pass still one of the favorite trails

Stock 4Runner with stock tires, experienced off-road driver. No issues, no scrapes. Some people. Worst was driving down into animas forks due to congestion.

Dry and clear.

Side coming up from Silverton side is steep and more technical. Some of the switchbacks on the lake city side are also kind challenging. Completed in a stock 4Runner.