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Follow this jeep track uphill for 0.2 mile to a crossing of the Tillamook Railroad, and then pick up the trail angling to the southeast (slightly left) on the other side of the tracks. The trail is now wide and easy to follow, as it travels through a very attractive second-growth forest of Douglas firs with the usual tangle of sword fern and Oregon grape carpeting the forest floor. About 0.3 mile from the railroad tracks the trail begins to cross a hillside above the rollicking waters of unseen Step Creek on your left.

At 0.7 mile is a junction. An all-terrain vehicle trail angles to the right, but you take the left fork and soon hop across (greatly overstated) Plenty Big Creek. Beyond here the gently graded route continues south, mostly in a relatively open deciduous woodland where you can see down to joyfully cascading Step Creek. At about 1.1 miles you cross a trickling side creek, and then at 1.4 miles the trail curves uphill to the right away from Step Creek. Instead of taking this route, leave the trail here, and follow a use path that goes downhill to the left. In about 100 yards this route leads to a beautiful marshy meadow. Enter the meadow quietly and you may spot elk, whose tracks and droppings are everywhere, or beavers, whose activity is quite noticeable on the creek. This is the recommended turnaround point.