 | Pot Hollow (Little Deer Creek Loop) The Pot Hollow trail is a short singletrack descent from Pole Line Pass into the Little Deer Creek valley. Overall, it's intermediate technical, with a couple of short trickier downhill sections that are easy to walk for less-aggressive riders. It can be done as a shuttled downhill or as a loop ride. The loop ride is exactly 12 miles, with 2000 vertical feet of climbing. This breaks down to 7.3 miles of gravel road, 2 miles dirt road, and 2.6 miles of singletrack. Some riders may want to park at Cascade Springs and ride 2.5 miles up to the road fork, which would make the total ride 17 miles with 2700 feet climbing. To do the ride as a shuttle, drive the gravel road 220 to Pole Line Pass, then descend Pot Hollow and Little Deer Creek back to the fork in the road for a 4.7-mile ride that's all virtually all downhill. |
| Loop ride, starting from fork of Road 220
and Little Deer Creek Campground road: 0.0 From fork, go east (R if coming uphill) on Rd 220 N40 29.409 W111 31.968 Cross creek and go uphill 0.7 Crest hill, fork L at 4-way N40 28.858 W111 31.871 3.2 Keep straight R (L = bail to Little Deer Creek Road) N40 30.825 W111 31.922 4.1 Pass DT connector to upper L.D.Creek N40 31.447 W111 32.376 5.7 Turn L and continue on gravel road N40 32.388 W111 33.189 | 7.3 Pole Line Pass N40 31.900 W111 34.244 L on ST just before road turns L 7.9 Left at fork onto trail 37 N40 31.404 W111 34.249 8.5 Left downhill on Pot Hollow Trail N40 31.113 W111 33.981 10.0 R on DT (Little Deer Creek Road) N40 30.978 W111 32.585 10.9 Fork L (R = into Little Deer Creek campground) 11.5 Pass exit from L.D.C. campground 12.0 Back at fork |
 | Getting there: Drive to the top of the Alpine Loop, either from the North Fork of Provo Canyon (past Sundance and Aspen Grove) or from American Fork Canyon. Just 1/4 mile east of the summit, turn east on Road 24 (Cascade Scenic Drive). Drive 7 miles. Just before Cascade Springs, the paved road takes a hard right turn. Turn left onto a gravel road here, labeled "Wasatch Mountain State Park" and "Little Deer Creek Campground." Drive uphill 2.5 miles to the fork in the road. You can park at the side of the road and start the ride here, or proceed straight to Little Deer Creek Campground (fee required) and start the ride there. Copyright 2002 Mad Scientist Software Inc
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