Echo Canyon DV hiking

[generdude]

While camping in Echo Canyon I would like to know if hiking in the canyon is a decent hike, as  I don't have a four wheel drive vehicle.

[DAW89446]

Hiking the road below Inyo Mine is an easy walk, but you will be sharing the road with vehicles. If you are seeking an informal walk, the road will serve just fine. The canyon is a popular tourist destination.

If you are an expert hiker, looking for a good workout and putting on many miles with lots of elevation gain/loss, waking the road over the saddle just below the Inyo Mine will drop you back into the main channel of Echo Canyon. The road becomes a very rough 4x4 trail so is far less visited. The road eventually reaches the Amargosa Valley and enters Nevada. Near the summit there are many other roads branching off everywhere that visit numerous mines. Crossing the range is more of a backpack than a day long hike.

Lots of early 20th century history along the way, the ghost towns of Schwab and Echo; the several clusters of the Lee townsites in both California and Nevada if you cross the range.

Latest Google Earth imagery shows the main 4WD road to be non-existent along much of the canyon, so you'd be hiking on flood debris.

[generdude]

Thank you, much appreciated. Going there today.

[generdude]

We hiked for about an hour or two, went back to the car and drove easily to the mine. No need for four wheel drive nor high clearance if careful.
Flowers: Brittlebush (Desert Gold) and Yellow Cups.
Small cacti on ground and on canyon walls.

[netllama]

We hiked for about an hour or two, went back to the car and drove easily to the mine. No need for four wheel drive nor high clearance if careful.
Flowers: Brittlebush (Desert Gold) and Yellow Cups.
Small cacti on ground and on canyon walls.

Thanks for the report !

[generdude]

You are very welcome!