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Directions to the Pilot Rock Trailhead:
From I-5 exit 6, follow Old Highway 99 south for two miles. Turn left onto Pilot Rock Road 40-2E-33. The large trailhead is located two miles east of Old Highway 99.
02 OCTOBER 2025 | GREENSPRINGS SUMMIT, OR. — Crews have opened up the Lone Pilot Trail for the first time in several years through a training program funded by the Oregon Trails Coalition.
More than 10 volunteers worked on trips scattered through September to cut at least a couple of hundred logs from the 12-mile route that connects with the PCT to form an approximately 18-mile loop. They had miles of thick brush to conquer and ran into herds of trespassed cows from neighboring property.
Our crews were the first to work on the Lone Pilot Trail, a collection of antique roads that were billed as a road-to-trail conversion in the Soda Mountain Wilderness’s original management plan.
“We went an entire two years without doing any work in the Soda Mountain Wilderness,” says executive director Gabriel Howe. “So it was nice to secure this funding through the Oregon Trails Coalition. Their support allowed us to train crew members and get this work accomplished.”