Ashland Lakes Trail Dispersed Camp

Ashland Lakes Trail Dispersed Camp could be a great way to intro your friend to an easy to moderate backpacking/overnight camp sesh. To find this hidden gem, follow an old roadbed 2.7 miles to Beaver Plant Lake, a sensitive wetland of sphagnum bog and peat (sounds mystical, doesn’t it?). The right fork continues past the junction with the abandoned and unmaintained Bald Mountain Trail to Upper Ashland Lake and Lower Ashland Lake; larger and deeper lakes are found at the headwaters of Wilson Creek. Here, you’ll find the dispersed camping you were looking for! Not too bad of a trek, eh? The entire journey should clock in around 3.5 miles, and just past lower Ashland Lakes the trail is washed out and becomes difficult, at times hazardous with cliffs below. Watch your step!