Gold Lakes Camping trip 5/14-16

I'm sitting on a three inch lift with 255/80/17 and there was a spot in the beginning that I had a little problem getting past. I don't have a locker, with the offroad you should have a locker you might be able to make it past that spot easier than I did. If you're close to go camping up there you could always just take a day trip and check it out.
Do you have any skids or sliders?

 

I have heard from my cousin the road into the campsite has been pretty much graded. They needed to make repairs to the restroom or something. So unless you plan on doing portions of the other trails you should be in the clear. His words were "you can get a civic back there now" with a sigh of grief. This was last weekend

 

I ran it last year in my stock 04, in 4 high. The beginning was the hardest but with the right line it's pretty straight forward.

 

I got some skid plates but that's it

 

Do you plan on doing snake lake trail or something ?

 

I just want to check out the campground and do some fishing for the day.

 

That really sucks

 

You should be fine

 

That must have happen recently meaning with the last few months. I was there in August I beleive and it wasn’t graded at that time.

 

This was this past weekend. He ran the snake lake trial

 

Damn! That sucks. It was nice to know that not everybody and his brother in a civic could get back there.

 

I totally feel you on the Civic's. But I was there last year (late July/ early August?), during Cruiserfest?; lots of stock & built rigs. And there were plenty of tards living kick ass lives at GL. The place was a zoo. The road won't stay "nice" long.

 

Did you make it up there? how were the conditions?

 

I made it and it was awesome!! great introduction to off-roading!! conditions couldnt be better, clear skies, the trail was great, with the help of my brother and my dad guiding me over some of the big rocks we made it to the campsite in +or - 1hr


If i have time on this saturday ill post pics. sure busy at home and work and dont have much time to transfer photos from my phone to the computer

 

Just post from your phone.

 

Awesome! good to hear its still in good shape.

 

Here are some pics of the Gold Lake trail

 

I've even seen a full size Chevy pu with a camper on it back in there.
Duane

 

Has anyone been up this way recently? I was thinking of doing a trip to Gold Lakes Campground from Sierra City via Butcher Ranch Road.

 

Took my stock Tacoma through that route on Thursday. Im kind of a newbie, so there were 2 or 3 spots I needed a spotter, but nothing too crazy. The most difficult obstacle is right before you pull into the camping area, it got me up on 3 wheels. The route can get a little confusing, so I’d recommend downloading an offline map and using the gps to get you there - I used OnX. Btw - don’t count on camping at the OHV site, it was packed.