Trail Dog and Driver

The roads that don't go anywhere

Shelf road, rock, thick brush, and grade that means it. Not the easy forest roads everybody already has. The tracks here are the ones worth your Saturday, and the files are free.

Routes

GPX / Free / No signup

Every track was driven, not drawn. Download the GPX, load it in onX or Gaia, and go. All of these are legal and on the forest public use maps. Check conditions and gate status before you commit to one.

Sproul State Forest

Sample Route

Placeholder sitting in the layout. Real tracks, names, and the notes on what is worth stopping for are going in here.

32.2Miles
4,335Feet up
4h 15mMoving
2,078High point

GPX coming shortly

02

Route two

03

Route three

Fenrir

He is the most important part of what we do out here. A hundred and fifty pounds of Newfoundland who has met hundreds of people and left every one of them better than he found them. He works as a certified therapy dog. Out here he gets to stop working and just be a dog in a creek.

  • Therapy Alliance of Therapy Dogs, certified
  • AKC Canine Good Citizen
  • AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy
  • Visits 28 facility visits, 56 hours and counting
Photo of Fen

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Found a duck?

There is a dog on it and a code on the bottom. Somebody left it on your rig because they liked it, and that is the whole tradition. Scan the code, see where it came from, then pass it along to the next rig you find at a trailhead.

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