AUBURN to RATTLESNAKE BAR

This segment is best hiked from Auburn to Rattlesnake Bar because of the extreme steepness. The truly hardy are welcome to the challenge.

Take Interstate 80 to the Newcastle Exit south of Auburn. Take Indian Hill Road (near the two mini marts) to Auburn-Folsom Road, then turn left. Go to Maidu Drive, then turn right. Follow Maidu Drive until you reach the building complex.

At about 100 yards before the complex the Shirland Canal crosses under Maidu Drive. To the right of Maidu Drive and the left of Shirland Canal is the trailhead.

Parking here is limited to the curbside or a small space to the left of the trail.

Go on the trail to where a corrugated crosses the trail and canal and pass around to the left of it.

Go to where another trail crosses the trail and the canal.

Turn left and go on this trail to a paved road.

Turn right and go to another paved road.

Turn right and go to where there is a trail on the left side of the road.

Turn left onto the trail and go to an unpaved road.

Turn right and go to another road.

Cross this road to where there is a trail on the other side.

This trail goes to Rattlesnake Bar.

At Mormon Ravine you cross over the south canal on a nice wooden bridge

and climb to pass a unique low-head power generation station

Stop and check this out. The trail then crosses the station parking lot, passes an old pond

and the minimum-impact campsite. The trail exits at Rattlesnake Bar on the entrance road, west of the main parking areas.

This page revised December 23, 2006