McCarty Creek Trail

Total Miles
10.4

Technical Rating

Moderate

Best Time

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter

Trail Type

Full-Width Road

Accessible By

Trail Overview

This county road is one of the most challenging drives in the area. It has plenty of obstacles to keep you entertained. This route is also a fun drive in the early winter. Starting in Boulder, it can be driven as an out-and-back trail, or a loop by driving south on FS 258 and then taking 69 back to Boulder.

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Difficulty

50% of trail could be rated a 3 with a few challenging sections rated as 4.

Technical Rating

Status Reports

Started at the national forest cattle guard and connected with Skyline mine trail to Leslie Lake. Our party had 2 dirtbikes and a SxS. Multiple small creek crossings and plenty of boulders. First time on the trail but nothing looked out of sorts. No one else seen on McCarty trail.

recommend winch my 3'' lift and 35 tires slid off a rock and to pull myself out. dead fall ridge nickname I gave it, must have chainsaw lots of fall over trail cleared it but lots of trees could continue to cover last half of trail. lots of fun though just pick your lines right.

Trail is rated 4/10 - Agree on difficulty, a few rocks where you need to choose the right line, but easy enough. There is a lot of down timber across the trail that has been cut... but it's cut very narrow so it'll pinstripe a full size vehicle.