Oregon hiking trails - East Mountain Trail, Central Cascade Range, Clackamas County

   
  Put on your backpacking shoes, and hit the wilderness trail, East Mountain Trail in Clackamas County, Oregon is just the spot. No chance of getting bored in Oregon if you like the great outdoors. Backcountry hiking here in Oregon is always an enjoyable thing to do. Even though this is not a very long backpacking trail it's always good to bring some emergency supplies, you never know what could happen. This trek shouldn't take more than 2.5 hours, but you never know stuff could go wrong and you could get stuck so be prepared for that. East Mountain Trail
    is a relatively wet spot usually with a large amount of rain; December is the wettest month with most rain while July is ordinarily the driest month. East Mountain Trail is 2.8 miles long it's shorter than many great outdoors trails. This backcountry trail is on the short side
with an average amount of climbing distance which makes this backcountry hiking trail glorious for the average trekker looking for an enjoyable adventure. Each wilderness trail in Oregon has its own unique attractiveness. East Mountain Trail stays roughly within the same elevation zone the whole time, so you won’t have to worry about different climate zones along your hike. The backcountry trails of the Central Cascade Range are a great way to explore these peaks. This is one of a very small number of backcountry hiking trails in this region. There is only  
one trailhead, so you're looking at an in and out hike. Please follow all local rules about fires and camping. Summertime at East Mountain Trail comes with high temperatures in the 70's. Throughout the moonlight hours it's usually in the 50's. Daytime highs during the wintertime are in the 40's, and during the dark hours in the wintertime at East Mountain Trail temperatures plunge to the 30's. East Mountain Trail is not very next to Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton at all, but when you backcountry trek it you're always having a splendid time. Pleasant wilderness trails in Oregon are in abundance; one of these is East Mountain Trail in Clackamas County. The total elevation difference for East Mountain Trail is 479 feet which is a lower than average number.

Briefly about the general area:
All the outdoors exciting stuff in the Central Cascade Range will keep you coming back persistently. Stay the night at Skookum Lake Campground. There's so much to do here at East Mountain Trail that you need to camp here for a while, B and B Rentals is a tremendous location for that.

Location of Trailhead: Latitude 44.9985, Longitude -122.1644
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Total in and out hiking length = 2.8 miles

Total climbing distance = 1.2 miles

Difficulty : Medium

Casual Hiking Pace: 2.5 hours

Fast Hiking Pace: 1.5 hours

Total elevation difference: 479 feet


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 Trails Near East Mountain Trail:
South Fork Mountain Trail, Clackamas County County , 2 miles away,  5.6 hiking miles, 2378 feet elevation difference
Thunder Mountain Trail, Clackamas County County , 2 miles away, 4.6 hiking miles, 3377 feet elevation difference
Molalla Trail, Clackamas County County , 3 miles away, 3 hiking miles, 1285 feet elevation difference
 Camp Grounds Near East Mountain Trail:
Skookum Lake Campground, Clackamas County, 1 miles away
B and B Rentals, Detroit, 10 miles away
Pelton Park, Estacada, 10 miles away
Silver Fox RV Park, Estacada, 12 miles away
Northwest Land Management, Estacada, 13 miles away
 Hotels Near East Mountain Trail:
Best Western Sandy Inn, Sandy , 21 miles away
Resort at the Mountain, Welches , 22 miles away
Whispering Woods (Vri), Welches , 22 miles away
Howard Johnson Gresham, Gresham , 30 miles away
Best Western Pony Soldier-Gresham, Gresham , 30 miles away
 Lakes Near East Mountain Trail
Skookum Lake, Clackamas County , 1 miles away

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