Rippy Trail with Clear Sign
After my last review of Rippy Trail, I wanted to revisit it because it is a great trail. It is one of the only trails that is multi-use, which means sharing with ATV's that is not a giant mud hole. Since it is spring, it is nice to know of some dry trails.
Total Length is 3.8 miles round trip.
To the Trailhead: Head down Maud road to the end and further to the end of the dirt road called Maud Extension. You will pass a nice lake on your right and a shooting range (recently updated) on your left. Keep going. The road gets narrow and at the bottom of a short hill there is a larger turn around place. *If you continue to a even more iffy road you will end up at Jim Lake (too far).
Park near the new sign.*not there earlier last year!
Then the trail is clear except one point about 4 minutes in it looks like it has a Y but just stay to the heavily used trail to the right and you will be on the trail.
Great trail for mountain bikes and fat bikes!
Trail Terrain: It is a meandering woodland trail with a few creeks to jump over. No extensive river crossings. It is mostly hard packed and cleared trail. We did spot a moose. There is a few bear stands so, you have been warned.
The best overlook is definitely at a hard right near the 1.8 mile point.
And they built a bridge for the last creek crossing. The main trail just goes in a loop back to the bridge. However, some guidebooks say that you can scramble to the left of the bridge and follow an animal trail towards the Knik Glacier. I couldn't find it :(
Thanks Sam Whipple for the stunning photos of the bike trip they did.
Total Length is 3.8 miles round trip.
To the Trailhead: Head down Maud road to the end and further to the end of the dirt road called Maud Extension. You will pass a nice lake on your right and a shooting range (recently updated) on your left. Keep going. The road gets narrow and at the bottom of a short hill there is a larger turn around place. *If you continue to a even more iffy road you will end up at Jim Lake (too far).
Park near the new sign.*not there earlier last year!
Then the trail is clear except one point about 4 minutes in it looks like it has a Y but just stay to the heavily used trail to the right and you will be on the trail.
Great trail for mountain bikes and fat bikes!
Trail Terrain: It is a meandering woodland trail with a few creeks to jump over. No extensive river crossings. It is mostly hard packed and cleared trail. We did spot a moose. There is a few bear stands so, you have been warned.
The best overlook is definitely at a hard right near the 1.8 mile point.
To the overlook. Just a .3 of a mile to the bridge and quick turn around loop.
| Name: | Rippy trail to the overlook walking | |
| Date: | Apr 11, 2016 5:08 pm | |
| Map: (valid until Oct 16, 2016) | View on Map | |
| Distance: | 3.74 miles | |
| Elapsed Time: | 1:36:12 | |
| Avg Speed: | 2.3 mph | |
| Max Speed: | 5.2 mph | |
| Avg Pace: | 25' 42" per mile | |
| Min Altitude: | 163 ft | |
| Max Altitude: | 425 ft | |
| Start Time: | 2016-04-12T01:08:57Z | |
| Start Location: | ||
| Latitude: | 61º 33' 33" N | |
| Longitude: | 148º 55' 07" W | |
| End Location: | ||
| Latitude: | 61º 33' 32" N | |
| Longitude: | 148º 55' 07" W | |
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