I’m beginning to think I’m spoiled here in CO. I’m working in the middle of the Oroville Recreation Area and Dam here in California and thought it would be easy to take a a couple of quick hikes after work.
I found a trail on AllTrails, but it seemed every road to it was closed or private. The area also had no cell coverage, so I drove around for a while looking for a trailhead. I finally found the visitor center, but it closed at 5:00pm. I finally found a trailhead, and it turned out to be the trail I was looking for. However, it was a gravel road that ran over the dam in the 95+ degree sun with no shade.
I thought I saw a trailhead by the visitor center and headed back. There were a couple of suicidal baby deer along the route, but I made it without incident. There was a trailhead, but no markings of any kind. I headed off in one direction and found some trail markers 1/4 mile down the trail???
I decided I would go on the Kelly Point Trail and followed the marker down the trail to another tee 1/2 mile further down the trail. The tee was three trails listed, but none of them was Kelly point Trail, WTF???? I chose one direction at random to another tee. This time is had Kelly point, but not all the previously listed trails were listed.
It was a nice trail in the end. The bark on the trees were very strange. I was planning on coming back the next day, but the 100+ degree heat and the terrible trail markers made me skip it.
Here are the stats:
- Distance = 3.11 mi
- Elevation = 371 ft
- Time = 1:03:53
- Avg Speed = 2.9 mph
- Min elevation = 921 ft
