looking for trails near brookings, oregon

[MountainCruiser62]

in october i will be doing my annual salmon fishing trip to brooking, or and im hopeing to find some trail along the way. i take 101 N from san jose, ca all the way there. if anyone knows of some fun areas to check out i'd apreciate it. thanks

i read about a couple trails off of grants pass, but dont know anything about them.

 

[barrypt5]

http://www.oohva.org/

A lot of people here have talked about #35...

barrypt5

 

[ArmyFJ]

The McGrew Trail is awesome. Even if you just follow the dirt road to the Sourdough Camp or the North Fork Smith River Day Use area, its a nice trip. If you copy paste these into Google Earth it will give you the directions:



"Smith River" lat=41.9291691941, lon=-124.144200323

"Sourdough Campground" lat=42.0219329959, lon=-123.96654354

The town of Smith River is on the 101 just before Oregon, and it give access to the smoother ride to Sourdough (The McGrew Trail - is on the Oregon side and is rougher). It will take you every bit of an 1 and a half that it says in Google Earth. Bring your trunks the water is frosty, but crystal clear and worth the long off-shoot.

Hope that helps.

If you feel real froggy, you can go up into Obrien, OR (The trail head for McGrew) and go up into the mountain that way. I wouldn't do it without a buddy though or a good map, there are trails everywhere. You might be able to get a good map from Cave Junction information center (just north of Obrien). Have fun, just went there this weekend, such a great time - a real piece of heaven.

Matthew

 

[ArmyFJ]

Well I tried the Google Earth from Obrien and low and behold it comes back with the McGrew Trail. The time on this trail says 1 hr 30 min. I would tell you that there is no way in hell you could do it that fast. It will take you at least 4 hrs if you go that way.

Here are the coord.

"Obrien" lat=42.0672367551, lon=-123.703191166

"Sourdough Campground" lat=42.0219329959, lon=-123.96654354

I highly recommend having a wheeling buddy if you are going to do this trail.

Matthew

 

[MountainCruiser62]

thanks for the responses