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Bald Mountain & Top Spur Trail #785 via Timberline Trail #600 is a 1.5-mile out-and-back in Mount Hood Wilderness near Lost Lake Resort, OR. The route reaches Bald Mountain at the turnaround, 0.8 miles in. It climbs 624 ft, with sections as steep as 25% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 81/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.

Elevation

0 mi3,947 – 4,580 ft · steepest grade: 25%1.7 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Top Spur Trailhead 45.40777, -121.78588
Nearest town Lost Lake Resort, OR

Directions

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Bald Mountain & Top Spur Trail #785 via Timberline Trail #600

1.5 mi · ▲ 624 ft · 49 min

Elevation 3,947–4,579 ft

Out & Back · Mount Hood Wilderness

Trailhead: Top Spur Trailhead · 45.40777, -121.78588

Weather Sep 4: sunrise 6:33 AM · sunset 7:41 PM

Toilets at the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on Top Spur Trail #785, heading N.
  2. 0.4 miTurn right onto Pacific Crest Trail, heading SE.
  3. 150 ftContinue straight onto Timberline Trail #600, heading SW.
  4. 200 ftContinue straight onto Bald Mountain Summit Trail, heading SW.
  5. 0.3 miReach Bald Mountain, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  6. 0.3 miContinue straight onto Timberline Trail #600, heading NE.
  7. 200 ftContinue straight onto Pacific Crest Trail, heading NE.
  8. 150 ftTurn left onto Top Spur Trail #785, heading N.
  9. 0.4 miArrive back at the trailhead.

Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.

Trail surface

100% dirt

Weather

Sunrise 6:33 AMSunset 7:41 PM

Good to know

  • Toilets at the trailhead
  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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