Broken Spoke & Quickdraw
16 mi · ▲ 1,808 ft · 6 hr 14 min
Broken Spoke & Quickdraw is a 16-mile out-and-back near Donner Pines Tract, CA. It climbs 1,808 ft, with sections as steep as 22% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 75/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.
Elevation
0 mi5,893 – 6,788 ft · steepest grade: 22%17.4 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Unnamed 39.38676, -120.25372
Nearest town Donner Pines Tract, CA
Directions
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Broken Spoke & Quickdraw
16 mi · ▲ 1,808 ft · 6 hr 14 min
Elevation 5,893–6,787 ft
Out & Back
Trailhead: 39.38676, -120.25372
Weather Sep 6: sunrise 6:34 AM · sunset 7:27 PM
Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start at the trailhead, heading SE.
- 250 ftBear right, heading S.
- 0.2 miTurn left, heading NE.
- 450 ftSharp right, heading E.
- 3.2 miTurn right, heading N.
- 0.1 miSharp right, heading S.
- 1.2 miBear right, heading S.
- 150 ftBear left, heading SW.
- 0.9 miTurn right, heading SW.
- 250 ftTurn right, heading W.
- 50 ftBear left, heading W.
- 350 ftSharp left, heading NW.
- 200 ftTurn right, heading NW.
- 0.3 miBear left, heading W.
- 100 ftTurn right, heading W.
- 250 ftTurn right, heading W.
- 0.2 miBear left, heading W.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading W.
- 0.2 miTurn right, heading W.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading W.
- 100 ftBear left, heading W.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Lion's Leap, heading W.
- 0.1 miTurn right, heading S.
- 50 ftBear left, heading S.
- 200 ftBear right onto Rawhide, heading NW.
- 0.1 miSharp right, heading SW.
- 0.1 miTurn right onto Quickdraw, heading W.
- 0.4 miTurn right onto Broken Spoke, heading SW.
- 400 ftBear left onto Crabtree Road, heading NW.
- 0.2 miTurn left, heading NE.
- 100 ftSharp right onto Broken Spoke, heading SW.
- 0.2 miTurn left onto Alder Creek Road, heading NW.
- 250 ftReach Quickdraw, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 250 ftTurn right onto Broken Spoke, heading W.
- 0.2 miSharp left, heading NW.
- 100 ftTurn right onto Crabtree Road, heading S.
- 0.2 miBear right onto Broken Spoke, heading SW.
- 400 ftTurn left onto Quickdraw, heading N.
- 0.4 miTurn left, heading E.
- 0.1 miSharp left onto Rawhide, heading E.
- 0.1 miBear left, heading SE.
- 150 ftBear right, heading SW.
- 50 ftTurn left onto Lion's Leap, heading S.
- 0.1 miTurn left, heading SE.
- 50 ftBear right, heading S.
- 100 ftTurn right, heading SW.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading SW.
- 0.2 miTurn left, heading SW.
- 50 ftBear right, heading SW.
- 0.2 miTurn left, heading NE.
- 250 ftTurn left, heading E.
- 150 ftBear right, heading NE.
- 0.3 miTurn left, heading NE.
- 250 ftSharp right, heading E.
- 350 ftBear right, heading E.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading SE.
- 250 ftTurn left, heading NE.
- 0.9 miBear right, heading SE.
- 150 ftBear left, heading SE.
- 1.2 miSharp left, heading NE.
- 0.1 miTurn left, heading NE.
- 3.2 miSharp left, heading NW.
- 450 ftTurn right, heading W.
- 0.2 miBear left, heading SE.
- 50 ftArrive 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 6:34 AMSunset 7:27 PM
Good to know
- Parking lot at the trailhead
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