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Backpacker Magazine Redding: Tangle Blue Lake 

A lakeside campsite awaits at the end of this 4.2-miler that passes old-growth cedars, a mining camp, and meadows splashed with wildflowers.


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Author: Backpacker Magazine
Date: 30 Aug 2007 1:55:40 PM
Activity: Hiking
State: California (CA)
Distance: 4.16 mi  (Change units)
Survey Elevation: Total Gain: 2188 ft
Total Loss: 1132 ft
Net Change: 1055 ft
Difficulty: 5 / 10
Tags: California, Redding, Trinity Alps, Trinity Center
Rating: Unrated   Rate it

Mapped by Leon Nelson

TO TRAILHEAD: Take CA 299 W for 50 mi. to Weaverville; turn R on CA 3. Go 30 mi. to Trinity Center, then continue N for 21 more mi. Turn L onto FR 39N20. Turn R @ first Y; in 1.3 mi., turn L @ second Y. Park .5 mi. later in large lot.

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Distance: 4.16 mi Points: 1381
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Tangle Blue Lake

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TBL001

Location: 41.229881, -122.703781
From Tangle Blue trailhead (4,684 ft.), head SSW on Grand National Trail (old logging road)

TBL002

Location: 41.227821, -122.707512
R @ Y

TBL003

Location: 41.228226, -122.710434
Cross Tangle Blue Creek on steel bridge and start 200-ft. climb

TBL004

Location: 41.229565, -122.714111
R @ Y, curl NW through deeply carved canyon cradling Tangle Blue Creek into Trinity Alps Wilderness

TBL005

Location: 41.222736, -122.728043
Dirt road changes to trail, pass outlet stream of Mosquito Lake hidden 1,400 ft. above

TBL006

Location: 41.220013, -122.731140
R @ Y, cross seasonal creek. In the steep hill to S rests the old Grand National Mine, a leftover of the 19th-century gold rush

TBL007

Location: 41.217464, -122.738739
Cross seasonal flows of Marshy Creek and climb among giant cedars draped with bright-green moss into a small meadow colored by wildflowers

TBL008

Location: 41.217361, -122.741196
L @ Y

TBL009

Location: 41.215706, -122.742195
Cross Tangle Blue Creek near the old site of Messner Cabin and ascend last 350 ft. through firs and pines

TBL010

Location: 41.208019, -122.744095
Tangle Blue Lake (5,746 ft.). Several lakeside sites; grab one on the white-sand beach on S shoreline. The peak above you is unnamed; snap photos of the alpenglow

Tangle Blue Lake

Location: 41.207851, -122.743698
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