Reilly Canyon Trail

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State Parks pass required for entry. Carpios Cove trail near the campground is hiker-only.

Hope you're running tubeless, because these rocks will eat your rubber. Deferred maintenance has led to an experience that often feels closer to backcountry bushwhacking than riding a developed trail, but for those up for adventure, Reilly Canyon offers a fun challenge, great views, and very few other trail users.

Despite a lack of extended climbs or long descents, this trail will test your technical skill through sheer chunk as it crosses drainage gulleys and short, steep climbs on the bluffs overlooking Trinidad Lake. Descents are brief but fun!

The trail begins in the campground next to the visitor's center just off Hwy 12. Follow the gravel until it turns to singletrack and stay right -- the Levsa Nature Trail is hiker-only. After the fork, the trail gets chunky fast. You'll have brief respites of sand and dirt, but expect loose sandstone slabs, large roots, and waterbars in various states of repair throughout.

At the far end, things become particularly overgrown, rutted, and occasionally hard to follow. Once you reach the trailhead and road at the west end, you can return the way you came or take the gravel road around the lake to return on the South Shore Trail.