Denver Creek

You drive up the creek. Not beside it — up it, on wet rock, which is the whole reason to come. Climbs from 2,566 ft to 3,586 ft past old mining ruins, and the Forest Service has actually sanctioned motorized travel in the creek bed. Bypasses exist around the worst of it, so a less built rig can still get through, but bring a buddy vehicle either way. This is the one that handed us our first real trail carnage.