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Copper Creek Lake Park

Copper Creek Lake via Gay Lea Wilson Trail

2.5 mi · ▲ 0 ft · 50 min

Copper Creek Lake via Gay Lea Wilson Trail is a 2.5-mile out-and-back in Copper Creek Lake Park near Pleasant Hill, IA. The route reaches Copper Creek Lake. It is mostly level, with 0 ft of elevation gain, and mostly paved. It scores 0/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi797 – 824 ft2.7 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 41.59600, -93.52295
Nearest town Pleasant Hill, IA
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Copper Creek Lake via Gay Lea Wilson Trail

2.5 mi · ▲ 0 ft · 50 min

Elevation 798–824 ft

Out & Back · Copper Creek Lake Park

Trailhead: 41.59600, -93.52295

Weather Sep 21: sunrise 7:01 AM · sunset 7:15 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading N.
  2. 50 ftTurn right onto Gay Lea Wilson Trail, heading N.
  3. 0.6 miPass Copper Creek Lake.
  4. 0.6 miTurn left, heading N.
  5. 150 ftReach Copper Creek Lake, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  6. 0.5 miTurn right, heading SE.
  7. 0.7 miTurn left, heading SW.
  8. 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 map, photos and weather for this hike: www.ambleway.com/hikes/copper-creek-lake-out-back-4-km

Trail surface

90% paved10% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 7:01 AMSunset 7:15 PM

Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

Hikes near Pleasant Hill, Iowa