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
- Start at the trailhead, heading W.
- 450 ftSharp right onto Mary Ellen Gulch Road, heading NE.
- 0.2 miTurn left onto Miller Hill Road, heading NE.
- 0.1 miTurn left, heading NE.
- 1.2 miTurn left, heading N.
- 50 ftSharp left onto Mineral Basin Road, heading N.
- 0.2 miContinue straight onto Alta Dry Fork Road, heading E.
- 50 ftBear right onto Mineral Basin Road, heading SE.
- 50 ftTurn left onto Alta Dry Fork Road, heading SE.
- 1.9 miTurn left, heading N.
- 150 ftSharp right onto Ridge Trail, heading NW.
- 0.5 miContinue straight onto Big Flat Springs Trail, heading SE.
- 0.1 miTurn right, heading SE.
- 0.3 miPass Big Flat Spring.
- 1 miReach Big Flat Spring, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 1.3 miBear right, heading W.
- 0.1 miContinue straight onto Ridge Trail, heading NW.
- 0.5 miSharp left onto Alta Dry Fork Road, heading S.
- 100 ftTurn left, heading S.
- 1.9 miTurn right onto Mineral Basin Road, heading SW.
- 50 ftBear left onto Alta Dry Fork Road, heading SW.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Mineral Basin Road, heading SW.
- 0.2 miSharp right, heading SW.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Pacific Mine Road, heading S.
- 1.2 miContinue straight onto Miller Hill Road, heading S.
- 150 ftTurn left, heading SW.
- 0.1 miTurn right onto Mary Ellen Gulch Road, heading SW.
- 0.2 miSharp left, heading SW.
- 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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