Mt. Hough (Quincy)
Quincy (Plumas County, northern Sierra) · near Quincy · Shasta Cascade
Mountain Biking
At a glance
- Skill level
- advanced
- Trail miles
- 10-mile Mt. Hough descent · Growing network, more miles planned
- Elevation
- Descends from the top of Mt. Hough to Spanish Creek · ~3,000+ ft drop
- Best season
- Late spring–fall (snow-free)
Worth knowing
- Good for a first timer
- No
Mountain Biking detail
- Nickname
- THE FIND — Downieville's Quiet Cousin
- Ride types
- all-mountain · enduro · xc
- Signature trails
- Mt. Hough Downhill · The growing network
- Ebike
- No
- Ebike note
- Standard bikes; the descent is typically shuttled.
- Intl tip
- Quincy is a genuinely charming, off-the-beaten-path Sierra town with a great main street and none of the Tahoe crowds. The whole Lost Sierra region (Downieville, Quincy, Graeagle) is a rising MTB destination anchored by the Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship's ambitious Connected Communities trail project.
The guide
Mt. Hough, above the small Plumas County town of Quincy in the northern Sierra, is the mountain biking find that Downieville-lo…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Mt. Hough (Quincy) — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 40.006, -120.916