Ride Summary:
Washington's best? You'll have plenty of folks who'll vote this to be it!
Trail Description:
You have to go through hell before you get to heaven.... From the lower parking lot it is an eleven mile climb to the top of Devil's Gulch. A long long climb that gives at least one indication of why this trail is named after the fallen angel. However, once at the top you will be rewarded with scenic views of the North Cascades. Best of all the single track is hard packed and usually dry. Long sweeping turns, wide open trails through old growth timber and sharp switch backs make the top of Devil's Gulch and intoxicating ride. No wonder there are so many sinners in the world! After a steep drop off the ridge you will be rocketing back and forth along each side of the canyon. The trail is smooth and fast all the way down and crosses the Mission Creek several times. The single track in Devil's Gulch is some of the smoothest and fastest in the state.
How to get there:
Take Hwy 2 to Cashmere. From the west take the first exit in town. From the east its the second exit. Go straight on Division street and follow it as it bends right and turns into Pioneer Street. Go to Mission creek road and turn left. About half a mile later turn right at unmarked intersection. Cross Mission Creek and take first left... back onto Mission. Follow until the gravel begins and go left at fork in road. Road # is 7100. follow for about 3 miles and park at Devils Gulch Trail Head. Ride up road 7100 and stay right. turn right on liberty bee-hive Road #9712. Follow to Devil' Gulch trail.
| Posted by: lara minia on 2/22/2013 |
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Devil's Gulch is one of my favorite
family farms as it produces premium wine
grapes and meats for fine restaurants.
It is a great place with an
extraordinary landscape view. Rock and
roll at one of the most exciting single
track trails in the area. visit the site
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| Posted by: jun jun on 7/22/2012 |
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You accept to be far too accurate not to accelerate off the trail(deep beach and trenches), and with a complete abridgement of abstruse appearance agency aught fun down hilling as well.
Frases De Amor / play games online-people of walmart
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| Posted by: Moto_Money on 7/25/2011 |
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Awesome set of trails, on motorbikes and mountain bikes. Just remember where all the trails came from. ORV monies paid for most of the trails and their maintenance in the whole State. I ride both, depending on who I ride with that day. Any attitude toward motos heats me up quick, being that it was that crowd that got the whole trail system going. And I have ridden Taneum, chewed up trails, on my mountain bike, at speed, so I know what it is like. Challenging, but still fun. Work together, both groups, or face losing more trails to only foot and horse traffic. Can you say money talks? It takes money to own horses, and horses chew up trails as well. But money talks, and the rest of us will walk...not by our own decision.
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| Posted by: Tim on 3/4/2011 |
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This is certainly not, by any standard, to be
considered one of washington's best trails. I had,
for years, been hearing about this trail from various
sources as being a really cool ride so last year i
decided to give it a go. I rode up the trail to the top
and continued along what's called the ridge trail
and found it to be mediocre at best. i know that
locals choose to ride the road up and bomb down
the trail, however even that choice is still a very
lame ride. the trail is just too damn sandy and very
disinteresting to ever do again. It's not too bad of a
xc ride though - totally cleanable. My wife and I
both cleaned it - up and down.
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| Posted by: rv33 on 9/14/2010 |
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Part II of my previous post:
instead of 7100. So…go RIGHT at that fork.
This is not a super challenging technical ride, but there are several scree fields on the descent that have plenty of exposure. The few switchbacks on the trail are pretty wide and easy to navigate.
I’ll be back!
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| Posted by: rv33 on 9/14/2010 |
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Rode DG on 9/11/10 and it was a hoot! The trail is in great shape and the weather couldn’t have been better—low 70s and sunny.
Drove in from Cashmere and parked on Sand Creek road, just past the junkyard—be prepared to ride through a pack of dogs there. We knew about FR 7100 being closed from this point up to the trailhead, but the Forest Service person I had talked with a few days earlier made it sound like the washout made it impassable even on a bike. That was not the case—no problem on bike.
As you climb FR 7100, you pass the bottom of the DG trail (where we exited at the end of our descent) and then about 2.3 miles later come to a fork in the road. The map we took (www.fs.fed.us/r6/wenatchee/maps/devils-gulch-map.pdf) didn’t show this fork and the roads were not marked in either direction. We went left. Mistake! We didn’t see a road marker until we had reached the top of the ridge—we were on 7101 (I think it’s also called both Peavine Canyon Road and Number 2 Canyon
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| Posted by: powcarvin on 8/2/2010 |
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Yawn....I think you mean waaa
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| Posted by: tim on 7/12/2010 |
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I had heard about this ride from many people through out almost a decade and was convinced that it was some sort of "dream ride". After riding this trail, up and down the single track, I can say, with full confidence, that this trail is possibly the most over rated P.O.S. I've ever ridden. Not only is it a sandy - loose nightmare, it is absolutely the most technically boring ride of its length I have been on. After riding up the trail to the top - which for the most part could be accomplished on a cyclocross bike(yawn!), we turned around and rode back down the trail hoping for a better experience(bigger Yawn!). You have to be far too careful not to slide off the trail(deep sand and trenches), and with a complete lack of technical features means zero fun down hilling as well. I've ridden tons of back country trails in WA, BC, ID, and MT, and find that this was a huge disapointment, waste of time and completely over rated. I feel cheated and misled by all the hype. True, if you&#
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| Posted by: Ray Birks on 9/26/2009 |
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Someone asked about driving from the top of Blewett. It will probably take you longer than just driving around. I've ridden from Mission Ridge to Blewett on the backroads and you'd need a vehicle with some decent clearance to make it. From the top of Blewett it's about 35 minutes to Wenatchee, then about another half an hour to the TH (if you're shuttling from Mission Ridge.)
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| Posted by: PTUX on 9/20/2009 |
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Always a great run... the road is closed just after Junkyard Bob's, but if you're accustomed to riding up the road from the lower trailhead, you can still do this by parking before the eco blocks. It tacks on a couple of miles (depending on where you park, a lot of the side of the road is posted). Trail is in pretty good shape, but the motos have dug it up in several spots and it does need work. How about this: every moto that rides brings 1 bag of gravel and fills in a pot hole!
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