Trail Overview

This route starts out from the 4th of July Pass recreation parking lot and takes you through Curran Saddle over to Marie Saddle Road #412. From there, it's just 2.3 miles back to North Fork Coeur d'Alene River #209, which is a main route back towards town or I-90. This is one of many entrances to get out into the national forest, and there are many trails to discover once you're off the pavement. This route starts out smooth and wide but soon turns into a single lane with limited places to pass- although there are occasional turnouts and intersections. This route may have snow from October through June and is unmaintained in the winter. Washouts and ruts exist up to a foot deep in places. Cell signal is limited in the area.

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Difficulty

This route starts out smooth and wider but soon turns into a single lane with limited places to pass, although there are occasional turnouts and intersections. This route may have snow from October through June and is unmaintained in the winter. Washouts and ruts exist up to a foot deep in places.

Technical Rating

Sterling Reese

Dec 13, 2025

Open

There is a good amount of snow once you reach the junction to the wolf creek lodge trail. It would be easy for anything other than a motorcycle but seemed like it started to get deep.

Lizzie Quesinberry

Aug 31, 2025

Open

Starts out wide, two lane most of the way up, once you start to go back down it turns to single lane, pretty overgrown bushes/trees along the sides, very dusty this time of year too. Also pretty rutted out towards the end but passable in a pickup, didn’t see too many people but lots of blind corners, overall a good trip, saw one moose too.