Category: Hiking, Camping & Cabin Activities
Cook & Green PCT
Highway 96 at Seaid Valley to Oregon border
Best trail running areas for long distance hiking
- Russian Wilderness PCT
- Trinity Alps PCT
- Haypress Trail – Marble Mountain Wilderness
- Marble Mountain PCT
- Mt Eddy PCT
- South Kelsey Trail – Siskiyou Wilderness
- English Peak – Marble Mountain Wilderness
- Swift Creek Trail – Trinity Alps Wilderness
- Stuart Fork Trail – Trinity Alps Wilderness
Weeklong Trinity Alps Trips
- Caribou & Emerald/Sapphire Lakes
- Alpine, Smith, Emerald and Sapphire Lakes
- Papoose & Grizzly Lakes
- Trinity Alps PCT
Paynes & Albers Lakes – Russian Wilderness
- Music Creek Trailhead
- 4 hours driving time
- 7.5 miles roundtrip
- 3 miles to Payne’s Lake
- 0.5 miles to Albers Lake
- 0.25 miles to Upper Albers Lake
- Reach Big Blue Lake by cross country hiking to saddle above Upper Albers Lake
Statue Lake – Russian Wilderness
- Music Creek Trailhead
- 4 hours driving time via Salmon River Rd
- 7 miles round trip hiking distance
- 2 hours hiking time
- ~7100 feet elevation lake
Hiking PCT in Northwest CA
- From Highway 5 going north/west:
Weeklong Hiking Adventures
- Marble Rim & English Peak – Marble Mountain Wilderness
- Marble Mountain Circuit
- Northern Russian Wilderness Loop
- PCT Russian Wilderness
- PCT Northeast Trinity Alps Wilderness from Scott Mountain to Callahan Summit
- Marble Mountain PCT
- Castle Crags PCT
- Cook & Green PCT
- Grizzly and Papoose Lakes – Trinity Alps Wilderness
- Sapphire and Emerald Lakes – Trinity Alps Wilderness
- Trinity Alps High Route
- Wooley Creek Trail – Marble Mountain Wilderness
Weekend Hiking Adventures
Russian Wilderness:
- Bingham Lake
- Duck Lakes
- Paynes Lake to Upper Albers Lake
- Russian Lake
- Smith Lake
- Statute Lake
- Sugar Lakes + High Lake
- Taylor, Hogan, Big Blue Lake
Marble Mountain Wilderness:
- Marble Rim
Siskiyou Wilderness:
- Bear Lakes
- Buck Lake
- Devil’s Punchbowl
Trinity Alps Wilderness
- Boulder Lakes
- Canyon Creek Lakes
- Granite Lake
- Lake Eleanor
- Tangle Blue Lake
- Hidden Lake
- South Fork Lakes
- Fish Lakes
- East Weaver Lake
- East Fork Lakes
- Stoddard and McDonald Lakes
- Long Gulch Lake
- Trail Gulch Lake
Yolla Bolly Wilderness
- North Yolla Bolly Lakee
- Black Rock Lake