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| | With so many outdoors activities available in California you'll never get bored. Put on your backcountry backpacking shoes, and hit the backpacking trail, Spaulding Lake Trail in Nevada County, California is a fine pick. Spaulding Lake Trail is a backpacking trail quite far from Truckee-Grass Valley, but it is an exciting spot to trek. When you're here in California backcountry trekking along one of its backpacking and hiking trails is the great thing to do. During the warm months, highs mostly are in the 80's at Spaulding Lake Trail while night lows are |
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typically in the 40's. All through the winter this place gets highs in the 40's; night lows during the winter for Spaulding Lake Trail tend to be in the 20's. Each one of the many backpacking and hiking trails of California has its own character. The high level of precipitation
| | makes Spaulding Lake Trail a rather wet place; January is the wettest month with most rain; July is when it's the driest. Spaulding Lake Trail is on the short side with an average amount of climbing distance which makes it a wonderful trail for the average person looking for a wonderful adventure. This is not a very long great outdoors trail but you should still bring some emergency supplies just in case something happens. The total elevation difference for this hiking and backpacking trail is 601 feet which is a lower than average number. You should | |
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count on this walk taking about 3 hours, but you never know stuff could go wrong and you could get stuck so be prepared for that. There are many great backpacking and hiking trails in California, and Spaulding Lake Trail in Nevada County is one of them. This great outdoors trail
sometimes gets very dry, so make sure you check current conditions and fire restrictions with local forest authorities before you head out. This hiking and backpacking trail has only one trailhead, so in and out is the way to backcountry trek it normally. The hiking and backpacking
trails of the Northern Sierra Nevada are a magnificent way to explore these mountaintops. Spaulding Lake Trail is 3.6 miles long it's a short great outdoors hiking trail. Please follow all local rules about fires and camping. This is one of many trails in the surrounding vicinity.
Spaulding Lake Trail stays roughly within the same elevation zone the whole time, so you won’t have to worry about different climate zones along your backcountry trek.
Briefly about the general area:
You can run the rapids of Fordyce Creek next to Spaulding Lake Trail,
and getting to Granite Creek from Spaulding Lake Trail is uncomplicated. And that's not all you can do here at Spaulding Lake Trail. Gonelson Canyon is near Spaulding Lake Trail and is unquestionably a pleasant place to take a look at.
Camping is available at Lake Spaulding
Campground, and why not take a little journey to Fordyce Creek if you're here. Get your heart pumping on the nice whitewater of Yuba River - South Fork; Pierce Meadow is a great place here at Spaulding Lake Trail. Man, is there a heap of amusing things to do in the Northern Sierra
Nevada. If you're visiting Spaulding Lake Trail from Truckee-Grass Valley, you won't be the only one, and camping at Grouse Ridge Campground is always a brilliant experience.
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Location of Trailhead: Latitude 39.3437, Longitude -120.6487
- - Directions and Road Map
Total in and out hiking length = 3.6 miles
Total climbing distance = 1.5 miles
Difficulty : Medium
Casual Hiking Pace:
3 hours
Fast Hiking Pace:
2 hours
Total elevation difference: 601 feet
Deer Creek Inn, Nevada City
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16 miles away
Deer Creek Inn is a 150 year old restored Queen Anne Victorian located in the historic Gold Rush town of Nevada City, California. The historic shopping and dining district on Broad Street is only foot...
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Outdoors Recreation Near Truckee-Grass Valley, California
Very comprehensive list of a variety of outdoors recreation in the vicinity of Truckee-Grass Valley, California, the metro area neareast to Spaulding Lake Trail. Find info on campgrounds, hiking trails, ski resorts, lakes, beaches, parks, whitewater and more.
More Hotels and Campgrounds Near Spaulding Lake Trail, Northern Sierra Nevada, Nevada County, California
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| These outdoors activities are available near Spaulding Lake Trail. |
| | Trails Near Spaulding Lake Trail:
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Grouse Ridge Trail, Nevada
County
, 2 miles away, 6.2 hiking miles, 1886 feet elevation difference |
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Round Lake Trail, Nevada
County
, 2 miles away, 4 hiking miles, 406 feet elevation difference |
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Crooked Lakes Trail, Nevada
County
, 3 miles away, 7.4 hiking miles, 350 feet elevation difference |
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Glacier Lakes Trail, Nevada
County
, 4 miles away, 9 hiking miles, 770 feet elevation difference |
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Bowman Mountain Trail, Nevada
County
, 4 miles away, 3.6 hiking miles, 1277 feet elevation difference |
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Mears Lake Valley Trail, Placer
County
, 4 miles away, 2.1 hiking miles, 863 feet elevation difference |
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Canyon Creek Trail, Nevada
County
, 5 miles away, 4.9 hiking miles, 1929 feet elevation difference |
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| | Whitewater Near Spaulding Lake Trail:
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Yuba River - South Fork, Nevada/ Placer County
County
, 3 miles away, Class IV-V(V+) - 7.5 miles long (Cisco Grove to Spaulding Reservoir) |
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Fordyce Creek, Nevada County
County
, 4 miles away, Class IV-V - 12 miles long (Fordyce Lake to Lake Spaulding) |
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| | Hotels Near Spaulding Lake Trail:
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Deer Creek Inn, Nevada City
, 16 miles away |
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Chalet View Lodge, Graeagle
, 23 miles away |
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Holiday Inn Express Truckee, Ca, Truckee
, 27 miles away |
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Plumpjack Squaw Valley Inn, Olympic Valley
, 28 miles away |
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Squaw Valley Lodge, Squaw Valley
, 28 miles away |
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23 miles away
