Lead Draw, Walker Creek, Bell Marsh Creek, Mormon Canyon, Good Enough Campground.
Level of Difficulty: 5-6
Elevations: 4619' to 8031'
Starting Point Coordinates:
Length of Trail: 44 miles
Approximate time: 3 1/2 hours
Date of Ride: June 25, 2010
Description: The was an absolutely awesome trail. The first part was totally new to me, even though I have lived within 12 miles of it for 25 years. Lead draw starts off as an open jeep trail, but soon becomes a very narrow single track, cow path. There is a fork where you need to go to the right. We didn't take the left fork, but by the map it looks like it takes you to the base of Crestline Cycle Trail. (I'll check it out later!) The right trail takes you to the top of Indian Mountain Pass, about 3 miles. You then proceed down a narrow single track about 2 miles to the Walker Canyon Road. A short ways down the road you will see a trail to the right which is Walker Creek Trail. They just redid this trail this spring with a Trail Cat to make it a four wheeler trail. This trail takes you to Bell Marsh Creek, about 6 miles. Bell Marsh Creek trail is one of my favorites with 8-10 stream crossings. The water was fairly high on this ride with some places where the water was 12-14". When you get to the top of Bell Marsh, near the summit of Scout Mountain, you head down the jeep trail, that takes you to the top of Scout Mountain, until you reach the trail that goes along the ridge to the East. You take this trail for a 1/2 mile or so and then turn off left to the marked trail. This is Mormon Canyon trail. It is about 3 miles to Good Enough Campground from there. From Good Enough Campgroun it is about 3 miles back over to Bell Marsh Creek trail. From there I got the bright idea that there was another short cut to Walker Creek, which there wasn't, so we ended down on Marsh Creek Road, about 2 1/2 miles. The guy I was riding with has a very small gas tank, about 1.6 gallons, so we ran over to the Flying J in McCammon to fill up. Neither one of us had our wallets so fortunately a very nice lady from Taylorville, UT paid to fill up his bike. From there we headed up to Walker Creek via Marsh Creek Road, about 6 miles from the Flying J. It was about 4 miles to the end of the Walker Creek Road. From there we were back on the single track that we had come over. My bike's odometer said the total ride was 47.9 miles, but the GPS put it at 44 miles. By the time we were finished I was feeling the pain, but the ride was wonderful! Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures, (you can find picture of much of the ride on the
Lead Draw-Crestline Trail) because I was downloading some pictures to my laptop before leaving and left the SD card in my computer!
Google Map
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