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The ATV damage is especially sad because, apart from the machine-caused eyesores, the surroundings are quite attractive, especially as you descend along an unnamed but pretty creek that rapidly increases in volume. At about 4 miles you cross the creek on a sturdy metal bridge and then gradually climb to another group of clear-cuts. In the midst of this logging activity, at about 5 miles, the trail comes to another primitive logging road. To relocate the trail, you need to cross the road at an angle going slightly to the right and a little uphill.

After this extended unattractive section, you are finally rewarded with some of the trail’s nicest scenery. Back in forest, the trail descends to Cedar Creek and follows this clear, rollicking gem upstream for about 2 miles to a sturdy metal bridge. Immediately on the other side of the bridge is a junction with a gravel, wheelchair-accessible trail to Cold Creek Campground. You cannot leave a car at this permit-only site, so to reach a legal trailhead, go right (uphill), still on the Bells Mountain Trail, and continue through pretty forest for 0.5 mile to another trail junction. This junction comes immediately before the main trail crosses the gravel access road to Cold Creek Campground. To reach the nearest legal parking area, go right and in about 0.6 mile of gradual climbing through second-growth forest come to the Cold Creek Trailhead on Road L 1000 (see ssss1).