Lacks Creek
BLM Lacks Creek Management Area, inland Humboldt · near Willow Creek · North Coast
Mountain Biking
At a glance
- Skill level
- advanced
- Trail miles
- ~15 mi across ~16 trails
- Elevation
- Trailhead ~3,890 ft; ~3,700 ft cumulative descent
- Best season
- Late spring-fall (drains faster than the coast; snow possible up high)
Worth knowing
- Good for a first timer
- No
Mountain Biking detail
- Ride types
- xc · flow · downhill
- Signature trails
- Tomfoolery · Jump Line · Pine Ridge / Stormy Saddle / Chutes
- Ebike
- No
- Ebike note
- BLM land - Class 1 e-bikes commonly allowed but confirm with the BLM Arcata Field Office.
- Intl tip
- Inland Humboldt's best descending - ~15 miles of purpose-built BLM trail near 3,900 ft that drains faster and rides longer into the season than the coast. Remote (about an hour from Arcata via Willow Creek); come self-sufficient.
The guide
Lacks Creek is inland Humboldt's purpose-built gravity-and-flow secret - a BLM management area high in the mountains east of Ar…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Lacks Creek — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 41.0131, -123.7875