Cronan Ranch Regional Trails Park
Pilot Hill / Coloma (El Dorado County) · near Pilot Hill · Gold Country & Central Valley
Hiking
At a glance
- Difficulty
- moderate
- Route type
- loop
- Distance
- 6 miles
- Elevation gain
- 800 ft
- Time needed
- day
- Best season
- Spring (rolling green hills + wildflowers) and fall
Permits and booking
- Permit required
- No
- How the permit works
- BLM — no day-use fee. Leash dogs, especially near grazing sheep and their guard dogs.
- How hard the permit is to get
- 0 of 5
What is here
- Features
- Open rolling grassland · South Fork American River frontage · Hollywood Western filming location · Wide, easy tread
Worth knowing
- Dogs
- Allowed
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Hiking detail
- Intl tip
- Take the loop down to the river bar for a picnic and extend along the river corridor toward Greenwood Creek; watch for sheep and their guard dogs.
The guide
Cronan Ranch's photogenic rolling pastures down to the South Fork American River have starred in several Western films, and the…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Cronan Ranch Regional Trails Park — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 38.8265, -120.9892