California hiking trails - Church Creek Trail, Santa Lucia Range, Monterey County

   
  Time to get out, and breathe some fresh air, and if you happen to be in Monterey County of California, Church Creek Trail is a splendid local backpacking and hiking trail for doing a bit of leg stretching. This part of California has a perfect deal of available outdoors pastimes. If you happen to be in California, why not go backcountry hiking, it is always an exciting thing to do. This neighborhood does get very dry sometimes, so make sure you check current conditions and fire restrictions with local forest authorities before you head out. Please follow
    all local rules about fires and camping. This is a one trailhead hiking and backpacking trail, so you're looking at an in and out hike. Church Creek Trail has a total elevation difference of 1,279 feet, and that is about average. Summertime at Church Creek Trail comes with high
temperatures in the 70's while nighttime lows are generally in the 50's. Throughout the winter highs are in the 50's, and winter nights come with lows in the 40's to Church Creek Trail. There are so many wilderness hiking trails in this area. Church Creek Trail is 3.8 miles long it's shorter than many backpacking trails. Church Creek Trail is a backpacking and hiking trail pretty far from Salinas, but it is one of many wonderful backpacking and hiking trails in this vicinity. There are many glorious great outdoors hiking trails in California; Church Creek  
Trail is one of them, and it's in Monterey County. Church Creek Trail stays roughly within the same elevation zone the whole time which means the conditions are about the same from start to finish. This great outdoors hiking trail is not that long but it's always nice to bring some emergency supplies, you never know what could happen. Hiking here in the Santa Lucia Range is a very perfect way to see these mountaintops. The time needed for this backcountry hike is roughly 3.5 hours, but of course some folks walk a bit slower and some a bit faster. This backcountry trail is a very short backcountry trail having an average number of uphill miles which makes it a nice wilderness hiking trail for the average person looking for a nice adventure. It is very dried out here at Church Creek Trail commonly; January is when you get the most rain here; the driest month is July. Every single California great outdoors hiking trail is beautiful in its own way.

Briefly about the general area:
Here at Church Creek Trail you'll perhaps meet some folks from Salinas, and nearby you hit upon Church Creek Divide which is a perfect site to explore.
Yep, outdoors enjoyable stuff truly is abundant here in the Santa Lucia Range. You'll need more than a day to discover everything Church Creek Trail has to offer, you can camp at Indian Valley Campground, and Church Creek Trail is a perfect location to visit for more than one day, China Camp is a perfect location to camp nearby.

Location of Trailhead: Latitude 36.2752, Longitude -121.5863
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Total in and out hiking length = 3.8 miles

Total climbing distance = 1.6 miles

Difficulty : Medium

Casual Hiking Pace: 3.5 hours

Fast Hiking Pace: 2 hours

Total elevation difference: 1279 feet


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 Trails Near Church Creek Trail:
Pine Ridge Trail, Monterey County , 2 miles away, 20.1 hiking miles, 4802 feet elevation difference
Miller Canyon Trail, Monterey County , 2 miles away,  15.6 hiking miles, 2327 feet elevation difference
South Fork Trail, Monterey County , 5 miles away,  7.8 hiking miles, 1563 feet elevation difference
Hennicksons Ridge Trail, Monterey County , 5 miles away, 5.9 hiking miles, 2356 feet elevation difference
Hot Springs Trail, Monterey County , 5 miles away,  4.4 hiking miles, 1545 feet elevation difference
Big Sur Trail, Monterey County , 5 miles away,  15.2 hiking miles, 1949 feet elevation difference
Carmel River Trail, Monterey County , 6 miles away,  29.4 hiking miles, 3023 feet elevation difference
 Camp Grounds Near Church Creek Trail:
China Camp, Monterey County, 4 miles away
Indian Valley Campground, Monterey County, 6 miles away
Upper Higgins Campground, Monterey County, 6 miles away
Rocky Creek Campground, Monterey County, 7 miles away
Pelon Campground, Monterey County, 7 miles away
 National Parks Near Church Creek Trail:
Pinnacles National Monument, Paicines - CA , 43 miles away
 Hotels Near Church Creek Trail:
Ventana Inn Big Sur, Big Sur , 10 miles away
Country Garden Inns, Carmel Valley , 14 miles away
Bernardus Lodge, Carmel Valley , 16 miles away
Salinas-Days Inn Monterey, California, Salinas , 21 miles away
Valley Harvest Inn, Soledad , 21 miles away

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