California hiking trails - Chaos Crags Trail, Southern Cascade Range, Shasta County

   
  Chaos Crags Trail is a long trip away from Red Bluff, but backcountry backpacking it is fine fun any time. As long as you like the wilderness you will like California. Alright, enough of spending all this time inside a building, time to get out, and Chaos Crags Trail in Shasta County, California is a really fine site to spend some time. At Chaos Crags Trail during the months of summer highs are in the 80's. For the duration of the moonlight hours it's generally in the 40's. The winter comes with highs in the 40's with winter lows in the 10's overnight
    here at Chaos Crags Trail. This hiking and backpacking trail has a total elevation difference of 929 feet, and that is lower than average. Trekking here in California never gets boring. This hiking and backpacking trail has only one trailhead, so you're looking at an in and out
backcountry trek. The high level of precipitation makes Chaos Crags Trail a quite wet location; all through the month of December you get the most snow around here, and July on the other hand is the driest. Being 3.4 miles long it's a shorter type trek. This area does get very dry sometimes, so do check for current fire restrictions before you go if you plan to bring a stove or make a camp fire. This wilderness hiking trail is not that long but it's always tremendous to bring some emergency supplies, you never know what could happen. Chaos Crags Trail  
stays roughly within the same elevation zone the whole time which means the conditions are about the same from start to finish. You should count on this trek taking about 3 hours, but of course some folks walk a bit slower and some a bit faster. And keep in mind that there could be temporary safety restrictions in location. This is a vicinity covered with lots of great outdoors trails. These wilderness hiking trails here in the Southern Cascade Range are a very splendid way to see these mountaintops. Chaos Crags Trail is on the short side having an average number of uphill miles which makes it an outstanding great outdoors trail for the average person looking for an outstanding adventure. There are numerous backpacking trails in California, and each one has its own character. Great outdoors hiking trails are glorious and plentiful in California; one of them being Chaos Crags Trail in Shasta County.

Briefly about the general area:
Chaos Crags Trail is delightful enough to spend more than a day at, Mill Creek RV Park is a delightful local campground, and a pleasant spree to Sunflower Flat is a good way to spend an afternoon.
But wait, there's more amusing things to do in the Southern Cascade Range. A tremendous location to camp here at Chaos Crags Trail is Kings Creek Campground, and if you have time, Lassen Volcanic National Park is a national park worth a visit. There's a good forest in close proximity to Chaos Crags Trail called Dwarf Forest; a great spot is Nobles Pass.

Location of Trailhead: Latitude 40.5345, Longitude -121.5573
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Total in and out hiking length = 3.4 miles

Total climbing distance = 1.3 miles

Difficulty : Medium

Casual Hiking Pace: 3 hours

Fast Hiking Pace: 2 hours

Total elevation difference: 929 feet


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 Trails Near Chaos Crags Trail:
Hanna Trail, Tehama County , 7 miles away, 2.3 hiking miles, 1799 feet elevation difference
Growler Trail, Tehama County , 8 miles away,  2.6 hiking miles, 1156 feet elevation difference
Heart Lake Twin Meadows Trail, Tehama County , 8 miles away,  7.2 hiking miles, 1384 feet elevation difference
Bunchgrass Trail, Shasta County , 8 miles away, 6.4 hiking miles, 1779 feet elevation difference
Childs Meadows Trail, Tehama County , 9 miles away,  6.4 hiking miles, 1369 feet elevation difference
 Camp Grounds Near Chaos Crags Trail:
Mill Creek RV Park, Shingletown, 3 miles away
Kings Creek Campground, Shasta County, 6 miles away
Bluff Falls Campground, Tehama County, 6 miles away
Twin Bridges Campground, Shasta County, 6 miles away
Big Springs Campground, Shasta County, 7 miles away
 National Parks Near Chaos Crags Trail:
Lassen Volcanic National Park, Mineral - CA , 9 miles away
 Hotels Near Chaos Crags Trail:
Bailey Creek Cottages, Westwood , 22 miles away
Best Western Rose Quartz Inn, Chester , 24 miles away
Comfort Inn Central, Paradise , 42 miles away
Paradise Inn Motel, Paradise , 42 miles away
Best Western Heritage Inn - Chico, Chico , 46 miles away

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