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Grant Lake–McCreery Lake, 6 sights is a 4.5-mile out-and-back in Joseph D. Grant County Park near Evergreen, CA. The route passes McCreery Lake before reaching Grant Lake at the turnaround, 2.3 miles in. It climbs 361 ft. It scores 13/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi1,437 – 1,647 ft4.7 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Halls Valley Road 37.33276, -121.71734
Nearest town Evergreen, CA

Directions

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Grant Lake–McCreery Lake, 6 sights

4.5 mi · ▲ 361 ft · 1 hr 41 min

Elevation 1,436–1,648 ft

Out & Back · Joseph D. Grant County Park

Trailhead: Halls Valley Road · 37.33276, -121.71734

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

  1. Start on Halls Valley Road, heading SE.
  2. 50 ftBear left, heading SE.
  3. 0.1 miSharp left onto Snell Trail, heading N.
  4. 0.5 miContinue straight onto Barn Trail, heading SE.
  5. 0.3 miTurn left onto Lower Hotel Trail, heading N.
  6. 0.3 miContinue straight onto Hotel Trail, heading N.
  7. 0.4 miContinue straight onto Loop Trail, heading N.
  8. 50 ftTurn left onto Hotel Trail, heading NW.
  9. 0.6 miPass McCreery Lake.
  10. 50 ftSharp left onto Yerba Buena Trail, heading NE.
  11. 0.1 miReach Grant Lake, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  12. 0.1 miSharp right onto Hotel Trail, heading SE.
  13. 0.6 miTurn right onto Loop Trail, heading E.
  14. 50 ftContinue straight onto Hotel Trail, heading E.
  15. 0.4 miContinue straight onto Lower Hotel Trail, heading S.
  16. 0.3 miTurn right onto Barn Trail, heading S.
  17. 0.3 miContinue straight onto Snell Trail, heading NW.
  18. 0.5 miSharp right, heading S.
  19. 0.1 miBear right onto Halls Valley Road, heading NW.
  20. 50 ftArrive back at the trailhead.

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Trail surface

42% dirt58% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:15 AMSunset 8:13 PM

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