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Cinder Cone Spur–Cinder Cone, 3 sights is a 4.5-mile out-and-back near Rampart, CA. It climbs 870 ft, with sections as steep as 27% grade. It scores 11/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi6,155 – 6,989 ft · steepest grade: 27%5.0 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Truckee River Bike Trail 39.18360, -120.19566
Nearest town Rampart, CA

Directions

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Cinder Cone Spur–Cinder Cone, 3 sights

4.5 mi · ▲ 870 ft · 1 hr 56 min

Elevation 6,154–6,987 ft

Out & Back

Trailhead: Truckee River Bike Trail · 39.18360, -120.19566

Weather Sep 21: sunrise 6:48 AM · sunset 7:01 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading NE.
  2. 50 ftBear right, heading NE.
  3. 50 ftContinue straight onto Truckee River Bike Trail, heading NE.
  4. 0.1 miTurn left, heading N.
  5. 350 ftBear right, heading N.
  6. 0.7 miContinue straight onto Western States, heading NW.
  7. 0.1 miTurn left, heading SE.
  8. 0.1 miSharp right, heading NW.
  9. 0.2 miTurn right, heading NE.
  10. 0.4 miSharp left onto Cinder Cone Spur, heading E.
  11. 0.2 miBear left onto Cinder Cone, heading SE.
  12. 0.3 miReach Western States, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  13. 0.3 miBear right onto Cinder Cone Spur, heading SE.
  14. 0.2 miSharp right, heading W.
  15. 0.4 miTurn left, heading SW.
  16. 0.2 miSharp left, heading S.
  17. 0.1 miTurn right onto Western States, heading SW.
  18. 0.1 miContinue straight onto Truckee River Bike Trail, heading SE.
  19. 0.7 miBear right, heading S.
  20. 350 ftTurn left, heading SE.
  21. 0.1 miBear left, heading SE.
  22. 50 ftArrive back at the trailhead.

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

Trail surface

52% dirt48% paved

Weather

Sunrise 6:48 AMSunset 7:01 PM

Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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