Beauty Creek

Wander up this desolate wilderness valley upon a long forgotten trail. A cascading waterfall, and a steep, gravelly trail may be your only friend. Access to this trail is via the well maintained, Robinson Creek Trail.

2.75 miles from the trailhead the Robinson Creek Trail crosses Beauty Creek on a stout bridge. Pause here to view Beauty Creek Falls cascading nearly 800 feet in a series of spectacular drops. Just upstream from the bridge an unsigned trail turns off uphill.

Quickly and with persistence, the Beauty Creek Trail threads it's way uphill. The first half mile the trail seems in competition with the creek as to who can be steeper. The views are never terrific but a few dramatic plunges can be seen. The trail itself is fairly brushy these days and loose gravel coats the twenty degree grade.

After suffering up the trail for 1000 feet, the grade levels out a bit. Expertly crafted, the trail now switches back and forth between talus fields and mature forests. The river crashes down below largely out of sight. At two miles reliable water is found as you cross a creek which descends from an unnamed pond below Robinson Mountain.'

A boot-path to this pond can be found a short distance later, though it's steepness and lack of structure would preclude most hikers from having any interest in it.

It is 1500 feet of gain in under a mile to the pond. Continuing up valley, the Beauty Creek Trail has largely been abandoned. Another half mile there is a hunter's camp and several very nice riverside tent sites. Enjoy your seclusion and perhaps swim in one of the holes.