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Woods Lake via Winnemucca Trail is a 0.9-mile out-and-back near Kirkwood, CA. The route reaches Woods Lake at the turnaround, 0.4 miles in. It is mostly level, with 29 ft of elevation gain, and mostly dirt. It scores 2/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi8,186 – 8,235 ft1.0 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Winnemucca Trail 38.69080, -120.00955
Nearest town Kirkwood, CA

Directions

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Woods Lake via Winnemucca Trail

0.9 mi · ▲ 29 ft · 19 min

Elevation 8,186–8,236 ft

Out & Back

Trailhead: Winnemucca Trail · 38.69080, -120.00955

Weather Sep 20: sunrise 6:47 AM · sunset 7:02 PM

Toilets at the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on Winnemucca Trail, heading S.
  2. 0.4 miSharp right, heading W.
  3. 300 ftTurn left, heading S.
  4. 250 ftReach Woods Lake, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  5. 250 ftTurn right, heading E.
  6. 0.4 miArrive back at the trailhead.

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

Trail surface

77% dirt23% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:47 AMSunset 7:02 PM

Good to know

  • Toilets at the trailhead
  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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