Pine Gulch Trail

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E-Bikes Unknown

Entrance fee of $5/adult (2020), or bring your Texas State Parks pass

Pine Gulch Trail travels through land that was devastated by a wildfire in 2015. Young pine trees are starting to fill the area back in but for now there are some wildflower beds in open areas in the spring time. The singletrack is narrow but not too difficult.

East of Park Road 1C, the trail is easier with a relatively flat trailbed of mostly hardpacked dirt. You'll pass a small pond and one or two narrow streams if there has been any recent rain. West of Park Road 1C, the trail is more difficult with some short but steep climbs and descents and narrower turns.

The trailbed is also somewhat rocky in places. The "terminus" is at Roosevelt's Cutoff, which you'll probably use to make this into a loop. Prior to the fire, there was a segment of the Pine Gulch Trail that continued to the "beginning" at Park Road 1C making a full loop but that has been obliterated and there is little sign of this former trail segment.

If you aren't connecting from the Winding Woodland Trail, there is parking (and an impressive viewpoint) at the southern end of the trail, approximately the 2 mile mark for this GPX track where the trail crosses Park Road 1C.