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Deep Gulch Trail & English Camp Trail is a 3.8-mile out-and-back in Almaden Quicksilver County Park near New Almaden, CA. It climbs 1,271 ft, with sections as steep as 21% grade, and is mostly rock. It scores 75/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.

Elevation

0 mi479 – 1,122 ft · steepest grade: 21%3.9 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Mine Hill Trail 37.17397, -121.82507
Nearest town New Almaden, CA

Directions

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Deep Gulch Trail & English Camp Trail

3.8 mi · ▲ 1,271 ft · 1 hr 54 min

Elevation 479–1,121 ft

Out & Back · Almaden Quicksilver County Park

Trailhead: Mine Hill Trail · 37.17397, -121.82507

Weather Aug 4: sunrise 6:15 AM · sunset 8:13 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on Mine Hill Trail, heading W.
  2. 0.4 miBear left onto English Camp Trail, heading S.
  3. 0.8 miSharp left onto Deep Gulch Trail, heading SE.
  4. 0.7 miReach English Camp Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  5. 0.7 miSharp right onto English Camp Trail, heading SE.
  6. 0.8 miBear right onto Mine Hill Trail, heading E.
  7. 0.4 miArrive back at the trailhead.

Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.

Trail surface

79% rock21% dirt

Weather

Sunrise 6:15 AMSunset 8:13 PM

Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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