Castle Rock Trail – Big Bear Lake, CA | Where’s the Castle Rock?! (A Long Way From Missouri)

Some days the trail gives you everything. Some days it gives you an air show traffic jam, a dead GPS, a missing hiking stick, and a lapel mic that decided to bail. This was one of those days. And somehow, it still delivered. 📍 Missouri Bluffs Trail — Weldon Spring, MO 📍 Lewis and Clark…

Don Robinson State Park never seemed like a “storm hiding spot” kind of park — until today. LaBarque Hills Trail started hot and sunny, took me on a little wild goose chase toward a waterfall that wasn’t really feeling it today, and then about halfway through, the thunder started rolling in. I was seriously considering setting up a tarp when the first drops hit… and then found a natural rock shelter just big enough to duck into and ride the storm out completely dry.

Also learned something about myself out there: I do not mess with sand sticking to my skin. Zero tolerance. Straight home to shower.

📍 Trail: LaBarque Hills Trail, Don Robinson State Park
📏 Distance: 2.84 miles
⛰️ Elevation Gain: +387 ft
⏱️ Duration: 2:38:02

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Hiking Matson Hill Park in Saint Charles County, Missouri — one of the more scenic parks in the area, with some surprises along the way. I spotted deer, a rabbit, and the really cool old Hays Homestead ruins. I also got buzzed by speeding mountain bikers three times on what I thought was a shared…

This one’s got a little bit of everything. Little Lost Creek Conservation
Area, out of the North Hwy B Trailhead, packs flat road walking, meadow
trail, deep woods, rocky hills, and a creek bed all into one loop.

Started out of the parking lot on an old dirt road still in use today.
About .35 miles in, the route splits off onto a horse trail that skirts
around some private property before reconnecting with the old road. From
there it drops into the loop portion — old road gives way to a wide grass
path along the ridge. About 2.12 miles in, a little ways down the first
big, steep, rocky downhill, there’s a genuinely great view out over the
surrounding wooded hills. From there it’s the rest of the way down to the
creek, crossed twice, then a big, steep climb back up the other side. That
second hill had my full attention — didn’t get much chance to look around
— but it earned a lunch break at the top before leveling out into a
beautiful field road lined with cedar and oak, all the way back to the
loop junction and out to the parking lot.

📍 Trail Info:
– Trail: Little Lost Creek Conservation Area Loop
– Trailhead: North Hwy B Trailhead
– Distance: 5.47 miles
– Time: 3 hours 55 minutes
– Elevation Gain: +417 ft
– Difficulty: Moderate to Challenging (Hilly)
– Highlights: Ridgeline overlook (~2.12 mi), double creek crossing,
steep climb out, cedar and oak field road, mix of terrain types

⏱️ Chapters:
0:00 Trailhead – North Hwy B Parking Lot
0:14 Horse Trail Split (~0.35 mi)
1:13:52 Ridgeline Overlook (~2.12 mi)
1:57:43 First Creek Crossing
2:00:27 Second Creek Crossing
2:02:56 Steep Climb Begins
2:20:25 Ridge Field Road – Cedar & Oak
2:25:00 Lunch Break
3:14:00 Back on the Trail
3:25:29 Back Near Loop Junction
3:54:44 Trailhead – Loop Complete

🗺️ Stick around to the end for a first look at our new Trail Player 3D —
a 3D fly-through of the route with color-coded difficulty along the way.
Still rolling this out, and this trail’s a great one to show it off on.

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