Yuba River Trail __ Rocky Picnic area Traditional Cache

I'm intrigued by rivers. I love exploring them. This is an exceptionally pretty part of the Yuba river.  It is fairly difficult drive to get to the north end of river trail head, so I thought I'd leave a few caches to entice more people to come explore this beautiful area.

Cache is a small container under some rocks.  Please replace it more/less as found. I want a pile of rocks to give away the location.

Trail Access points for day trips

1. Town of washington then to Trail head, parking spot: N 39 21.326 w 120 48.510

2. Relief hill, just below North Bloomield, trailhead, parking spot for top of Missouri Bar trail: N 39 21.580 w 120 53.570

3. Humbug Trailhead (in Malakof Diggins park): N 39 21.924 w 120 55.394

4. Edwards crossing South Yuba trailhead: N 39° 20.362 w 120° 58.259  Use this to go upriver.

5. Edwards Crossing: N 39 19.801 w 120 58.996  Use this to go downriver.

6. Purdon Crossing: N 39 19.635 w 121 2.882 Use this to go upriver

7. To go from Purdon crossing to highway 49 crossing there is no trail.  You can hike/wade it in the summer after the water level has gone down, but it can take 8 hours.  I put some high terrain caches down there in 2016, but then the heavy rains came and I wasn’t able to check them so I archived them.  However, from Highway 49 crossing you can take either Hoyts trail or East Independence trail to make it to miners tunnel.

8. There are a couple other spots that I haven’t tried yet.  They include

   1. Trail above The overlooked overlook (GC6H4VH), although I think the Edwards crossing trailhead is just as close.

   2. Trail above Yuba River Trail--Beach Spot  (GC8AJ77), comes from Round Mountain

   3. Trail above Missouri Trail, from Scotts Flat, Highway 20 side, although I’ve run into numerous deadends trying to find the trail down.

Camping spots-- The best overnight camping spots are near the trail crossings, Humbug trail, Missouri Bar trail, Washington trailhead, and Edwards crossing.  Between these locations, often the trail climbs up to the ridge above the river and is half a mile down steep hills away from the river.

If you want to camp, you probably want a mid hike camping spot, I’ll list 2.They are basically flat level places near the river with fire pits from previous campers. There are multiple camping spots near each of these locations

1. Near the bottom of the Humbug trail, the South Yuba primitive camp.N 39° 20.168 w 120° 55.631

2.  Near the bottom of the Missouri Bar trail N 39° 20.711 W 120° 52.873