Boondocks–Easy Rider, 8 sights is an 8.8-mile out-and-back near Kingswood Estates, CA. It climbs 1,915 ft, with sections as steep as 34% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 65/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: backcountry feel.
Elevation
0 mi6,306 – 7,359 ft · steepest grade: 34%9.6 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Nature Trail 39.27623, -120.11933
Nearest town Kingswood Estates, CA
Directions
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Boondocks–Easy Rider, 8 sights
8.8 mi · ▲ 1,915 ft · 3 hr 53 min
Elevation 6,306–7,360 ft
Out & Back
Trailhead: Nature Trail · 39.27623, -120.11933
Weather Sep 20: sunrise 6:47 AM · sunset 7:02 PM
Transit-accessible: Aspen Grove Bus Stop stop 177 m from the trailhead · Toilets at the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start on Nature Trail, heading S.
- 0.1 miContinue straight onto Village Run, heading S.
- 0.2 miBear right onto Mineshaft, heading SE.
- 50 ftBear left, heading SE.
- 50 ftBear right onto Liftline, heading SE.
- 300 ftContinue straight onto Bill-E-Goat, heading SE.
- 50 ftBear left onto Liftline, heading SE.
- 0.1 miContinue straight onto Mineshaft, heading SW.
- 0.3 miTurn left onto Easy Rider, heading SW.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Village Run, heading SW.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Mineshaft, heading SW.
- 150 ftTurn right, heading SW.
- 300 ftContinue straight onto Boondocks, heading SW.
- 200 ftContinue straight onto Coaster, heading SW.
- 100 ftBear right onto Boondocks, heading SW.
- 0.2 miContinue straight onto Coaster, heading NW.
- 100 ftContinue straight onto Boondocks, heading W.
- 0.3 miTurn left, heading NW.
- 150 ftSharp right onto Tell No Tales, heading NW.
- 0.2 miSharp left onto Northstar Service Road 900, heading NW.
- 2.1 miTurn right onto Northstar Service Road 700, heading S.
- 350 ftSharp left onto Northstar Service Road 705, heading S.
- 0.6 miReach Nature Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.6 miSharp right onto Northstar Service Road 700, heading N.
- 350 ftTurn left onto Northstar Service Road 900, heading N.
- 2.1 miSharp right onto Tell No Tales, heading E.
- 0.2 miSharp left, heading E.
- 150 ftTurn right onto Boondocks, heading SE.
- 0.3 miContinue straight onto Coaster, heading W.
- 100 ftContinue straight onto Boondocks, heading W.
- 0.2 miBear left onto Coaster, heading SE.
- 100 ftContinue straight onto Boondocks, heading SE.
- 500 ftTurn left onto Mineshaft, heading SE.
- 150 ftContinue straight onto Village Run, heading S.
- 50 ftTurn left onto Easy Rider, heading S.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Mineshaft, heading S.
- 0.3 miContinue straight onto Liftline, heading SE.
- 0.1 miBear right onto Bill-E-Goat, heading E.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Liftline, heading E.
- 300 ftBear left, heading NE.
- 50 ftBear right onto Mineshaft, heading NE.
- 50 ftBear left onto Village Run, heading NE.
- 0.2 miContinue straight onto Nature Trail, heading NE.
- 100 ftArrive back at the trailhead.
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Trail surface
98% dirt2% unspecified
Weather
Sunrise 6:47 AMSunset 7:02 PM
Good to know
- Transit-accessible: Aspen Grove Bus Stop stop 177 m from the trailhead
- Toilets at the trailhead
- Parking lot at the trailhead
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