8.1 hr
In the less traveled southern Wallowas, the Pine Lakes Trail #1880 takes you up Pine Creek and then switchbacks up above the West Fork Pine Creek to enter the Eagle Cap Wilderness. Your destinations are the twin Pine Lakes , nestled below Tuck Pass and Granite Mountain in a picturesque alpine cirque. In summer, the trail is rocky and dusty and well-traveled by pack stock. You'll begin the hike at the atmospheric ghost town of Cornucopia, worth an exploration in itself, which was a center for gold mining activity for about 60 years beginning in 1885.
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