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Big Flat Spring–Alta Dry Fork Road, 5 sights is an 11.3-mile out-and-back near Silver Lake Summer Home Area, UT. The route reaches Big Flat Spring. It climbs 3,081 ft, with sections as steep as 44% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 81/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.

Elevation

0 mi7,589 – 9,371 ft · steepest grade: 44%12.0 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 40.52612, -111.60769
Nearest town Silver Lake Summer Home Area, UT

Directions

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Big Flat Spring–Alta Dry Fork Road, 5 sights

11.3 mi · ▲ 3,081 ft · 5 hr 18 min

Elevation 7,588–9,370 ft

Out & Back

Trailhead: 40.52612, -111.60769

Weather Sep 4: sunrise 6:57 AM · sunset 7:55 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading W.
  2. 450 ftSharp right onto Mary Ellen Gulch Road, heading NE.
  3. 0.2 miTurn left onto Miller Hill Road, heading NE.
  4. 0.1 miTurn left, heading NE.
  5. 1.2 miTurn left, heading N.
  6. 50 ftSharp left onto Mineral Basin Road, heading N.
  7. 0.2 miContinue straight onto Alta Dry Fork Road, heading E.
  8. 50 ftBear right onto Mineral Basin Road, heading SE.
  9. 50 ftTurn left onto Alta Dry Fork Road, heading SE.
  10. 1.9 miTurn left, heading N.
  11. 150 ftSharp right onto Ridge Trail, heading NW.
  12. 0.5 miContinue straight onto Big Flat Springs Trail, heading SE.
  13. 0.1 miTurn right, heading SE.
  14. 0.3 miPass Big Flat Spring.
  15. 1 miReach Big Flat Spring, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  16. 1.3 miBear right, heading W.
  17. 0.1 miContinue straight onto Ridge Trail, heading NW.
  18. 0.5 miSharp left onto Alta Dry Fork Road, heading S.
  19. 100 ftTurn left, heading S.
  20. 1.9 miTurn right onto Mineral Basin Road, heading SW.
  21. 50 ftBear left onto Alta Dry Fork Road, heading SW.
  22. 50 ftContinue straight onto Mineral Basin Road, heading SW.
  23. 0.2 miSharp right, heading SW.
  24. 50 ftTurn right onto Pacific Mine Road, heading S.
  25. 1.2 miContinue straight onto Miller Hill Road, heading S.
  26. 150 ftTurn left, heading SW.
  27. 0.1 miTurn right onto Mary Ellen Gulch Road, heading SW.
  28. 0.2 miSharp left, heading SW.
  29. 50 ftArrive back at the trailhead.

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Trail surface

60% dirt40% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:57 AMSunset 7:55 PM

Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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