Sacramento North Trail #5008D, NM

One of the many trails accessing the high ridge along Forest Road 64... This one is both too easy and too dull to be of any serious interest. There are just too many better options for really good hikes in this area.


Taking off from the lower trailhead on Sunspot Hiway, the trail follows the high power line easement that parallels the hiway.

After half a mile, you do finally move off and away from the power lines, but the trail remains in a wide, open meadow that offers little in the way of variety. Basically, you are hiking the slightly tilted cow pasture... the primary use given to this area during the warmer months of the year.

Cows were the only animals I encountered on this trail the one and only time I have and will ever hike this trail.

The trail is multi-use: motorbikes, horses, ATV's, hikers... and mountain bikers. That last category could put this trail to good use. You could use this trail as a nice downhill run to leave the upper ridge and access the Sunsport Hiway for a looping connection up or down the road. Really, you would be accessing Road c001... the name changes once you pass the turnoff to Sunspot. The paved road does now go all the way down to Timberon.

Other than for the very brief biking plunge, rapidly leaving this trail behind, I can see little reason to waste time here; there are too many other great options in this area!

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2012-06-05 imike