Kinzel Lake Trail #665 & Sherar Burn Road
14.9 mi · ▲ 3,139 ft · 6 hr 32 min
Kinzel Lake Trail #665 & Sherar Burn Road is a 14.9-mile out-and-back in Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness near Government Camp, OR. It climbs 3,139 ft, with sections as steep as 28% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 97/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.
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Kinzel Lake Trail #665 & Sherar Burn Road
14.9 mi · ▲ 3,139 ft · 6 hr 32 min
Elevation 2,727–4,765 ft
Out & Back · Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness
Trailhead: Dry Fir / Veda Lake Trailhead · 45.24803, -121.78794
Weather Sep 4: Heavy drizzle, high 50°F / low 39° · precip 59% · wind 4 mph · sunrise 6:33 AM · sunset 7:41 PM
Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start on Sherar Burn Road, heading SW.
- 5.4 miTurn left onto Kinzel Lake Spur Trail #665A, heading SW.
- 0.3 miContinue straight onto Kinzel Lake Trail #665, heading S.
- 1.8 miReach Sherar Burn Road, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 1.8 miContinue straight onto Kinzel Lake Spur Trail #665A, heading N.
- 0.3 miTurn right onto Sherar Burn Road, heading E.
- 5.4 miArrive back at the trailhead.
Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.
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- Parking lot at the trailhead
More from Dry Fir / Veda Lake Trailhead Trailhead
- Veda Lake and Cliff–Veda Lake, 3 sights 2.4 mi · ▲ 882 ft
- Eureka Peak Trail #671 via Sherar Burn Road 6.3 mi · ▲ 1,347 ft
- Dry Fir Trail #674A & Forest Road 2656 10.2 mi · ▲ 1,008 ft
- Devil's Peak–Hunchback Trail #793, 3 sights 13.3 mi · ▲ 2,148 ft
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