Cooper Spur Trailhead

9/09/2019

The cooper spur trail takes you up as high as you can go with amazing views of the summit. Nice hiking not as difficult more moderate not hard.

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The trail is primarily used for hiking running nature trips and snowshoeing and is best used from june until october.

Cooper spur trailhead. Rochelle park new jersey 271 contributions 9 helpful votes. Absolutely loved this hike it starts off with a long bumpy road up to a lodge then you start from a trail head that goes a few different directions. Hike description this spectacular hike begins at cloud cap trailhead and quickly climbs to several soaring viewpoints above the spectacular eliot glacier en route to the rocky crest of cooper spur the highest point on the mountain that can be reached by trail.

I highly recommend this hike. The trail starts out in an old growth forest. The inn is closed to visitors but the camp ground is a good place to spend the night if you want to get an early start on the trail.

Cooper spur trail is accessed from the cloud cap trailhead parking lot which is also home to cloud cap inn and cloud cap campground. The cooper spur trail takes you up as high as you can go with amazing views of the summit. This road can get rough sometimes over it s entire length of 9 miles.

Drive an other 2 1 2 miles to the cooper spur skiarea signs and from there take forest service road 3512 towards cloud cap inn tilly jane and the trailhead about 6000 ft elevation. Cooper spur trail the pacific northwest region of the u s. Went all the way to cooper spur took.

Trailhead is either the cloud cap campground or the tilly jane guard station. Carolina félix colón wrote a review aug 2019. Cooper spur trail via tilly jane trail is a 10 3 mile heavily trafficked out and back trail located near mount hood parkdale oregon that offers scenic views and is rated as difficult.

I highly recommend this hike. Forest service includes 19 national forests a national scenic area a national grassland and two national volcanic monuments within the states of washington and oregon.

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