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Crooked Creek Lake–Crooked Creek Connector, 6 sights is a 10.5-mile out-and-back in Yellowwood State Forest near Belmont, IN. The route passes Crooked Creek Lake and Crooked Creek Lake. It climbs 1,020 ft and is mostly dirt. It scores 83/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.

Elevation

0 mi571 – 922 ft10.6 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Horse Trail W 39.14771, -86.30775
Nearest town Belmont, IN

Directions

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Crooked Creek Lake–Crooked Creek Connector, 6 sights

10.5 mi · ▲ 1,020 ft · 4 hr 1 min

Elevation 569–921 ft

Out & Back · Yellowwood State Forest

Trailhead: Horse Trail W · 39.14771, -86.30775

Weather Sep 20: sunrise 7:32 AM · sunset 7:47 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on Horse Trail W, heading E.
  2. 1.4 miSharp right, heading W.
  3. 500 ftBear left, heading S.
  4. 200 ftTurn right onto Crooked Creek Loop, heading SW.
  5. 0.6 miPass Crooked Creek Lake.
  6. 0.4 miPass Crooked Creek Lake.
  7. 50 ftTurn left, heading S.
  8. 0.4 miContinue straight onto Crooked Creek Loop (closed), heading E.
  9. 50 ftContinue straight onto Crooked Creek Connector, heading E.
  10. 0.4 miTurn right onto Miller Ridge, heading E.
  11. 1 miContinue straight onto Tecumseh Trail, heading W.
  12. 0.9 miReach Crooked Creek Lake, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  13. 0.9 miContinue straight onto Miller Ridge, heading E.
  14. 1 miTurn left onto Crooked Creek Connector, heading N.
  15. 0.4 miContinue straight onto Crooked Creek Loop (closed), heading W.
  16. 50 ftContinue straight onto Crooked Creek South, heading W.
  17. 0.4 miTurn right, heading N.
  18. 50 ftContinue straight onto Crooked Creek Loop, heading N.
  19. 1 miTurn left, heading N.
  20. 200 ftBear right, heading NE.
  21. 500 ftSharp left, heading N.
  22. 1.3 miContinue straight onto Horse Trail W, heading NW.
  23. 400 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

60% dirt40% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 7:32 AMSunset 7:47 PM

Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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