Level: Easiest
Length: 7 mi (11.3 km)
Surface: Singletrack
Configuration: Out & Back
Elevation: -
Total: 4 riders
 

Mountain Biking High Lakes Trail

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#147 of 306 mountain bike trails in Oregon
#7,025 in the world

The High Lakes Trail is a great "green" trail on its own, or can be ridden as part of the more difficult Brown Mountain Loop. The trail is wide, smooth, and surfaced with a fine crushed rock, making it suitable for novice mountain bike riders, and families with kids.

Easily ridden in either direction or as an out-and-back, here is a description from the western trailhead:
From the Fish Lake Resort access road, The High Lakes Trail ascends gradually for a mile, then descends slightly and passes the Brown Mountain Trail coming in from the right. More gentle climbing resumes for another couple miles until the high point is reached. Along the way the trail has been painstakingly engineered through some impressive boulder fields of the Brown Mountain lava flows.

After a mile of gradual descent and another mile of flat cruising through old growth timber, there is a junction where the Brown Mountain Trail turns off to the south at a crossing of forest road #3640.

Continuing with little elevation change, the High Lakes Trail skirts the north end of Lake of the Woods and ends at a picnic/swimming area on the NE corner of the lake.

Camping, cabins, boat rentals, and cafe (think beer) are available at Fish Lake Resort, at the western end of the trail. A similar, but larger scale operation is located just south of the eastern terminus of the trail, at Lake of the Woods Resort.

First added by Ryan Lund on Sep 3, 2014. Last updated Apr 28, 2020. → add an update
Before you go
  • Drinking water: unknown
  • Lift service: unknown
  • Night riding: unknown
  • Pump track: unknown
  • Restrooms: unknown
  • Fat bike grooming: unknown
  • E-bikes allowed: unknown
  • Fee required: unknown
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Getting there
Starting in North Medford, take East Villas Rd to the Lake of the Woods Highway (OR-140 E). After 30 miles down the road you will have to turn right onto USFS Road 800. Follow that road down to a parking area.


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  • johnangel34
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    It's a nice and smooth trail. The trail is mostly just dirt, but once you get over the first short climb it gets more exciting with a fun downhill section the rest of the way to Lake of The Woods. The scenery is fantastic.

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