Elk Park to Homestake Pass

Updated route from mile 22.7 to Homestake Pass

After a cattle guard, take the dirt road that forks left at 22.3. Use the left, more-traveled, fork, in the sagebrush at 22.6. Keep to the right as the road soon splits around two pine trees. Then, at 22.7, just before the forks rejoin, look for a trail off to the right that heads west into the trees. Follow this trail as it descends a gully and leads back to the old Delmoe Lake Road at 22.8. (Northbounders will find heading up the gully on this trail easier than trying to keep to the former road.)

After walking south a bit, intersect the new gravel road at 23.1. Cross it and proceed westward along the pipeline, with small ups and downs, until you once again come to the older road, in the valley of Homestake Creek, at 23.5. Go right and climb gently, occasionally crossing the streambed (which may be completely dry in summer). The route continues straight at a junction at 24.1, where the old Camp Caroline Road turns right and heads north.

Meet the new Delmoe Lake Road once more at 24.4, near a high point. The old road is closed by boulders at this point, but you can walk past them, descend the former route and pass a dry creek bed. This is a shortcut down to the gravel road, which you meet at 24.5. Turn left and take this improved surface, past the railroad tracks at 25.0. (From the parking area south of the tracks, it is 0.3 mile on the side road to Homestake Lake, a day use area with water pump, privies, picnic tables, and trash barrels.) The Section ends at 25.2 as the road crosses a bridge over Interstate 90 at the Homestake Pass interchange.