Jones Creek

Trail Overview

Jones Creek is a fun and semi-technical singletrack in the San Juan National Forest that starts at the Lower Hermosa Campground and staging area. It immediately crosses the Forest Service Road and enters a forest of big ponderosa pines and scrub oak. It goes into a burn area, so there's potential for tree hazards. The trail has giant embedded boulders that you can mostly go around and lots of small embedded rock, making it a bumpy surface for most of the ride. It side hills along the mountainsides on a shelfy trail through the burn area. Trim roots, steep climbing sections, and narrow shelfy sections exist. It traverses down a shelfy trail, dome moderate switchbacks, and doto creek drainage and extensive meadows where the trail is more rutted. The trail takes you to the Pinkerton-Flagstaff trail, which you can take north to make a more advanced loop with Dutch Creek back to the staging area.

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Difficulty

This is an intermediate trail because it has lots of shelfy narrow sections, and lots of rockier sections.

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