TRAIN TRESTLE

Can someone tell me how you get from Paradise Campground to the train trestle ???

Just don't get on the trestle and ride it is felony if u get caught

That what we have been told. We spent 5 hours in Sept looking for it.

Are u talking about the train tracks near the blue building?

I seen some U Tube vid of them and just wanted to find them. A guy we meet on the outlaw trails pointed us in the general direction but had no luck.

Do you know how to get to the Blue Building that country road grocery? You can drop in there or from Pinnacle you can take bear fork road a ways down and you will cross a bridge right before the road takes a sharp left turn there will be a trail off to your right. You will take that and follow it you will eventually end up under the trestles and can fine the trail that takes you up to the top

Not sure about the blue building but i could plob find bear fork rd, ( Thanks )

do you have bob T's maps downloaded to garmin basecamp on your computer? I tend to study the maps quite a bit before we come out to ride to figure out our trips

This is the blue building you are looking for!!

I been looking for them also.  Heh heh.  Go over to the blue building and ask for directions.

minus the 300 chickens! haha

The chickens ain't so bad except at 0530 in the morning.  It's when the goats come in the room that I began to start wondering where the hell I'm at.  Of course Bubba wouldn't mind.

 

Not sure if this video will help you find them, but it has the train trestles in it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy0g5h_qi4o

I can tell about 6 ways to get there. 
I will tell you the easy way as far as giving directions.
It will not be the shortest way.  In fact it will probably be the longest way yet the most fun IMO.

Turn left out of Riders Paradise and go down the Wagon Road pass the WW and Pinnacle Creek camp
ground.  STAY on the CREEK and follow it to you come to a T which I call Creek Junction aka Beer Tree.  Turn right and follow the creek until the trail ends at a gravel road (it's a ways).  Remember, stay on the creek. Don't go up the mountain on either side.  This gravel road will actually take you back to the
Wagon Wheel by the Stair Steps.  Anyway turn right on the gravel road and go about 500 yards more or less and you will see a trail to the left. Just pass the trail is a narrow hair-spin bridge. Don't go to the bridge.  Take the trail to the left.  After about 100 yards you will see a trail to the right - it will take to the Little Playground (aks The Park)  but don't take it now. Keep straight until you go under the trestle. At he top of the hill beyond the trestle make a hard left to go up to the Tunnel.

When you leave go back the same and just before you get to the gravel road take a left onto the trail that will take you to the Little Playground aka The Park.  When going up this trail keep to the left at any forks and you will end up at The Park (Little Playground).

When you leave the Park don't back track, just continue up the trail until you come to a gravel road.
It ain't much but it is a gravel road.   If you take a left you go to the Blue Building pictured above.
If you take a right you can take a short cut back to Stair Case/Wagon Wheel Road . So after taking a right you will come to a narrow black top.  Keep straight across the BT and go to the bottom of the trail (its rocky) and you will come back to the Wagon Wheel Road again.  Take a left to go back  to the Stair Steps/Riders Paradise/Wagon Wheel. It will be a hard switch back type left. 

Take plenty of beer and gas in case you get lost. It works for me.
BTW: The Blue Building has more beer! but not gas.

I usually run this loop in the opposite direction but you should take the clockwise loop first to learn the trails.

Jim

It's hard to give trail directions ain't it? You could take wagon wheel rd towards the blue building and go left by the play ground, you could go up by the old outpost, or down the creek as described.

zingo that would b a great ride for them don,t think they can get lost that way

zingo wrote:

I can tell about 6 ways to get there. 
I will tell you the easy way as far as giving directions.
It will not be the shortest way.  In fact it will probably be the longest way yet the most fun IMO.

Turn left out of Riders Paradise and go down the Wagon Road pass the WW and Pinnacle Creek camp
ground.  STAY on the CREEK and follow it to you come to a T which I call Creek Junction aka Beer Tree.  Turn right and follow the creek until the trail ends at a gravel road (it's a ways).  Remember, stay on the creek. Don't go up the mountain on either side.  This gravel road will actually take you back to the
Wagon Wheel by the Stair Steps.  Anyway turn right on the gravel road and go about 500 yards more or less and you will see a trail to the left. Just pass the trail is a narrow hair-spin bridge. Don't go to the bridge.  Take the trail to the left.  After about 100 yards you will see a trail to the right - it will take to the Little Playground (aks The Park)  but don't take it now. Keep straight until you go under the trestle. At he top of the hill beyond the trestle make a hard left to go up to the Tunnel.

When you leave go back the same and just before you get to the gravel road take a left onto the trail that will take you to the Little Playground aka The Park.  When going up this trail keep to the left at any forks and you will end up at The Park (Little Playground).

When you leave the Park don't back track, just continue up the trail until you come to a gravel road.
It ain't much but it is a gravel road.   If you take a left you go to the Blue Building pictured above.
If you take a right you can take a short cut back to Stair Case/Wagon Wheel Road . So after taking a right you will come to a narrow black top.  Keep straight across the BT and go to the bottom of the trail (its rocky) and you will come back to the Wagon Wheel Road again.  Take a left to go back  to the Stair Steps/Riders Paradise/Wagon Wheel. It will be a hard switch back type left. 

Take plenty of beer and gas in case you get lost. It works for me.
BTW: The Blue Building has more beer! but not gas.

I usually run this loop in the opposite direction but you should take the clockwise loop first to learn the trails.

Jim

Lol i got it saved on my gps from lsst time bubba took me...but how you explained it here really does make sense.....n like said it aint easy giving trail directions....but the only part i am sorta confused on the hair pin bridge...you talking the bridge on the connector trail between pinnacle creek n indian ridge down by the farm???

DLB wrote:

Not sure if this video will help you find them, but it has the train trestles in it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy0g5h_qi4o

That's a real awesome video. Thanks for posting!

Ron your talking about the bridge at Tinys which is on connector trail 20 and 27. Zingo is talking about the T intersection going back toward Riders Paradise from Tinys. If coming from Tinys you would go straight at Beer Can Alley which will bring you out on Crumpler rd and like he mentioned take a right on Crumpler rd and go 1/4 mile to trail on left and dont turn off it till you see the trestle.  Go under trestle and it will bring you out beside the rr tracks. Stay off tracks and trestles and you will be ok. If you go out rr track north not back tracking it will bring you out to the service rd taking a left will take you to the blue store.

Ron(09rzr) wrote:

Lol i got it saved on my gps from lsst time bubba took me...but how you  explained it here really does make sense.....n like said it aint easy giving trail directions....but the only part i am sorta confused on the hair pin bridge...you talking the bridge on the connector trail between pinnacle creek n indian ridge down by the farm???

The bridge you are talking about is on the connector at Tiny's  and you get there by turning left instead of right at the T at Creek Junction.
The bridge I'm talking about after turning right at the T at Creek Junction and going to the gravel road and turning right
and it's about 500 yards down the gravel road.  To go to the Tunnel/tracks take the left just before the bridge.
This gravel road is an extension of the Wagon Wheel Road.  If you take a left on the gravel road coming out of the creek trail you can go to Hwy 10 and the
Barkers Creek area.  Similar bridges but different counties.

Thanks guys !

How do i find Bob T's maps ?

bstouffer wrote:

How do i find Bob T's maps ?

Go to the gps and gadget section on here and you'll find them

The pictures below show the route being discussed.

The link below will take you to a tutorial download that will show you how to get free Garmin Software and free maps for your PC and how to install maps onto a GPS.  Even if you don't have a GPS you can view the maps on your PC and print them.  If you are a noobie I highly recommend MapSource over Basecamp.  Click the "Skip Ad" in the upper right corner.


http://www.mediafire.com/download/c7y8798yqiwl3v9/How_to_Get_Garmin_Software_and_Install_Maps_102813.pdf

 

map source is what I use