Douglas Creek Falls

Total Miles
3.0

Technical Rating

Moderate

Best Time

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter

Trail Type

Full-Width Road

Accessible By

Trail Overview

This beautiful route takes you into the Douglas Creek Canyon and past the falls. Traveling from south to north, the main route has a challenging descent into a trough. However, there are bypasses available if needed. Traveling from north to south, the trough may be impassible to less capable high clearance vehicles. There are many miles of spur trails to explore. Be sure to take advantage of the scenic falls for lunch. Dispersed camping is available along the way. There is no cell reception. The trail is mostly packed dirt, however, in the wet season, it is all mud. There are multiple creek crossings roughly 1-1.5' deep in early spring.

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Difficulty

Overall the route is a technical rating of 4, with some section that can be bypassed rated 6 or higher due to deep trough decent/ascent and potential for deep creek crossings during the wet season.

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Cooper @vagrantoptimists

Mar 30, 2025

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From north to south a steep decline into a stream crossings. The decline was loose and rocky. We had no problem going down in our big rig and a stock truck/suv would be fine. Going up would probably require 4x4 and some all terrain tires. At the falls take the highest of the 3 roads to switch back up a loose, rutted, rocky climb. The low road would require 4x4, 35”+ tires, and probably a locker. The middle road is washed out. A few stream crossings less than 18” deep and no major mud in late March.

Fun trail! Tons of great water crossings, maybe 12 to 18 inches deep. At the end of the day, we jumped in the creek had the waterfall beautiful little area.

If you follow the blue route it’s a 4 in difficulty but if you bypass the steep drop down to the falls it’s probably a 2. The one water crossing to get to the falls was less than a foot deep.