Little Songer Butte Trail
Leave Ashland Rite Aid Parking at 8:30 AM
TH: Left from parking lot onto OR-66 and continue past Ashland Hills Hotel and intersection with East Main. Stay on OR-66 (Green Springs) for 6.2 miles (past intersection with DIM and main Emigrant Lake intersection) to the OLD Green Springs Highway which is a potholed road that jackknifes off to the left side (2.8 miles past Emigrant Lake Main entrance). Drive the potholed road for ½ mile down to the parking area. The unmarked trailhead is behind the vault restroom. Drive time 20 minutes.Hike Description: Hike the trail northward, parallelling the Lake, enjoying the spring flowers and common teasel. Pass a spur trail to private property, walking along a hillside meadow often used for paragliding. Continue past a spur trail on the left that heads down to the roadbed. Enjoy more of the rolling trail perhaps to the manzanita tunnel entrance to Little Songer Butte. Return the same way until reaching the spur trail down to the right to reach the roadbed near the lake, which veers left on a trail leading back to the parking lot. The hike is a lollypop shaped route covering about 4 miles RT and about 400’ elevation gain. Weather forecast. Driving mileage: 20 miles.
Hike Leader: Elisabeth, Kay