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| Hiking | 6.67 Miles |
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| | Hiking | 6.67 Miles | 2 Hrs 51 Mns | | 2.34 mph |
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| partners | | On our way back to Lubbock Texas we stopped off in Cloudcroft to get in a little hiking. After dropping our stuff off at the cabin we headed down the Sun Spot Highway to Forest service road 223 and the Lucas Canyon Trail. FSR 223 is in good condition and the Lucas Canyon Trail Head is marked. The route I downloaded does not exactly follow the trail and the trail head is .5 miles further down FSR223 than the route shows. It was close enough to get me in the vicinity. The trail, like many of the trails in this area is actually along an old logging road/rail. We hiked in 3.3 miles of the 4.8 mile trail before turning around and heading back.
Even though this is a hike along a road that is in places very rocky it is a very pleasant hike through a pine fir forest with grassy meadows in the creek. I am always impressed with the forest around Cloudcroft. We didn’t see much wildlife on the hike in but on the return trip it was getting close to sunset and the deer and the elk were out and about. Also spotted some turkey which was fortunate for us (and the turkeys, we weren’t hunting) because it is turkey season and the hunters were out. Lucas Canyon was dry with a few wet spots. At about 3 miles in there was a spring and it had a light flow, not sure if the creek was flowing below that spring as the trail is about 100 feet above the creek on the east side and we turned around just after it. We will have to finish the lower mile of the trail on another trip to Cloudcroft. The weather was perfect for hiking in the mid 60’s for a high. A bit windy the two days we were here but as long as you weren’t on the ridges it wasn’t bad. |
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