This ride starts and finishes at the day use area in Joseph Stewart park at Lost Creek Lake. A heads up, there is a fee to park in the day use area, but there are toilets, water, a store, and a lake to swim in after the ride. The ride will travel through a mix of BLM and private timber company land on the MedCo divide roads, linking Hwy 62 and Lost Creek Lake to Medco pond on the Butte Falls Prospect road. There really isn’t much pavement, on the ride, but there is plenty of gravel, lots of views of the Cascades and Mt McLaughlin along the way. The longer route crosses over and climbs up on the western flank of Mt McLaughlin to take in a bit more of the big timber and some of those weird paved roads in the middle of the woods that only appear in places that used to haul out heaps of timber. The MedCo timber company built the old A and B Divide Haul roads to move timber from the woods outside of Butte Falls and Prospect down to the mill in Medford where the airport sits now. In fact if you have ever driven the Hwy 62 Expressway, you’ve seen the old log ponds where they kept the timber before milling it. After the ride, a stop in Shady Cove for BBQ at Goebel’s or ice crema at Phil’s Frosty is highly recommended.
Ride With GPS Links
Distance
Lost Creek Honey Badger Short 41.9 Miles
Lost Creek Honey Badger Long 63.7 Miles
Altitude
Lost Creek Honey Badger Short 5097ft
Lost Creek Honey Badger Long 6582ft
Honey Badger Rides 