Marble Creek Trailhead

From here you can ride a beautiful set of trails which take you into the old logging camps and past the haunting splash dams.

Marble creek trailhead. Grandmother mountain view an elevation profile of the trail. Forest road 6510 is very rough steep and narrow. Check website for details. Joe nf grandmother mtn.

Camping is available at many locations along the route. Trail 261 is part of the marble creek trail system and features fishing opportunities in marble creek remnants of cabins historical logging sites and good huckleberry picking when they are in season. At the intersection with delaney creek trail 271 take a left nnw and the second part of the trail begins. 261 features fishing opportunities in scenic marble creek remnants of cabins historical logging sites and good huckleberry picking when they are in season.

Marble creek camp 3 is a nice horse facility about 13 miles off the paved st. Marble creek in all its glory. Trail on cranberry creek and marble creek in st. The trail then crosses marble creek imagine small river not creek in a big snow year.

Lots of flowers on trail 261. Campground on cranberry creek and marble creek in st. A fine day hike or overnight backpack the marble creek trail no. There are interesting remnants from logging days of the 1920s.

Joe nf grandmother mtn. Turn left on marble creek road and go for 9 miles to the top of the ridge to the trailhead. Views from trail 251 prior to meeting 261 are few and far between. Note that as this road winds up with multiple bends there are high water bars that require clearance to navigate.

Open to motorbikes but recommended for advanced riders. Marble creek at the upper crossing. The trail rides the ridge as long as it can before using some switch backs to reach marble creek. The marble creek trail is the little orphan of the ozark trail laying half way between the taum sauk and wappapello sections waiting to be connected.

It s complete with hitching posts water and campsites. The old splash dam and old structures on marble creek. Ferns on trail 261. View east in dramatic evening light with long shadows.

This is a true river trail up and down into and. Private land blocks the path in both directions so until easements or purchases are negotiated the final route between the two is uncertain. A tributary just before meeting marble creek. Continue on marble creek road which becomes fr 6510 for another 7 7 miles until you reach a saddle and the pullout on the left at the signed marble pass trailhead.