Spring Creek Nature Area & Spring Creek Trail
5 mi · ▲ 82 ft · 1 hr 42 min
Spring Creek Nature Area & Spring Creek Trail is a 5-mile out-and-back in Spring Creek Nature Area near Plano, TX. The route reaches Spring Creek Nature Area. It is mostly level, with 82 ft of elevation gain, and mostly paved. It scores 0/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
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Spring Creek Nature Area & Spring Creek Trail
5 mi · ▲ 82 ft · 1 hr 42 min
Elevation 556–655 ft
Out & Back · Spring Creek Nature Area
Trailhead: 33.00332, -96.73137
Weather Sep 22: sunrise 7:16 AM · sunset 7:25 PM
Transit-accessible: Renner @ Orchard Ridge - W - MB stop 630 m from the trailhead
- Start at the trailhead, heading E.
- 0.3 miTurn right, heading E.
- 50 ftBear left, heading E.
- 0.2 miTurn left, heading E.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading E.
- 0.2 miTurn left onto Spring Creek Trail, heading E.
- 0.8 miTurn right, heading E.
- 150 ftBear left, heading E.
- 0.2 miPass Spring Creek Nature Area.
- 0.2 miTurn left, heading SE.
- 0.7 miReach Spring Creek Nature Area, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 1.1 miBear right, heading W.
- 0.8 miTurn right, heading W.
- 0.2 miTurn left, heading NW.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading NW.
- 0.2 miBear right, heading W.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading W.
- 0.2 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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Sunset
The best sunset spot on this hike is right at the trailhead, so there is no walk out. Be there by 7:05 PM to have the sun's last 20 minutes of sky before it sets at 7:25 PM. Your car is right there — dark at 7:50 PM.
Good to know
- Transit-accessible: Renner @ Orchard Ridge - W - MB stop 630 m from the trailhead
More from this trailhead
- Spring Creek Trail 3.4 mi · ▲ 53 ft
- Renner Fountain & Renner Trail via Spring Creek Trail 5.7 mi · ▲ 161 ft
- Spring Creek Nature Area via Spring Creek Trail 3.2 mi · ▲ 79 ft
- Renner Fountain via Spring Creek Trail 4 mi · ▲ 107 ft
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