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Continue snaking up the road, avoiding the tendency to stop at two separate pullouts signed BRANDY CREEK TRAIL, to another junction, 2.2 miles from Brandy Creek Beach Area. Turn left at the junction and drive another 0.75 mile to where large boulders block the road, passing pullouts for Salt Gulch and Rich Gulch trails along the way. A small parking area with a bearproof trashcan is nearby.

Description

Walk up the continuation of the road past the boulders a short distance to where an old roadbed veers uphill on your left next to a sign reading BRANDY CREEK FALLS 1.5. Climb along this old logging road through a shady, mixed forest of black oaks, canyon live oaks, tan oaks, bigleaf maples, ponderosa pines, Douglas-firs, and incense cedars, with the reverberating sound of Brandy Creek tumbling down the canyon below. A healthy understory includes a variety of ferns, as well as snowberry and dogwood. The grade momentarily eases at the bridged crossing of a tributary, followed shortly by an easy hop across a smaller rivulet cascading through large boulders, which were deposited here during a slide in the winter of 1997. Beyond the rivulet, the moderate climb resumes beneath forest cover until a very brief descent drops to a junction with the Rich Gulch Trail on your left.