9.5 hr
Overview
The 53,000 acre Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument was designated in 2000 to protect the extraordinary biological diversity at the confluence of the Siskiyou and Cascade Mountains in southern Oregon and northern California. The 24,707 acre Soda Mountain Wilderness within the national monument was created by the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. All of this wilderness is located in Oregon and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Wilderness designation did not, however, seem to bring with it the resources needed to build trails into this new wilderness. Fortunately, the Siskiyou Mountain Club (SMC) in Ashland, Oregon, stepped up and converted an abandoned road into the Lone Pilot Trail which gives hikers and backpackers ready access to the deepest recesses of the wilderness. The SMC has cleared and groomed this road to make it easy to follow and, although it's not a pure "trail", it is the very best way to visit the interior of this wilderness. Summers are hot here, so the best times to hike this long loop are in spring and fall.
Trail Stats
28.6 km
884 m
1615 m
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