Indian Farm Creek

Getting There

Lower Indian Farm Creek is a spectacular granite canyon full of domes and hoodoos. It's also a trail-less thrash through wild rose thickets or mountain mahogany thickets (pick your poison). If your tolerance for bushwhacking and scrambling is high, then the rewards here are also quite high. If not, then you'll still get to see some great scenery just by driving to the end of the road.

From the entrance to the CCC campground, go west across the Snake Valley Road onto a dirt track. Several minor tracks split off here; take the best-looking one southwest and then west, initially paralleling Toms Creek on a bench, then veering away to the south (left). Skip several small side roads. At about 0.6 mi, stay south (left) at a Y junction. The track bends to the south (left) when it starts to run into an irrigation diversion from Indian Farm Creek into Toms Creek. At an intersection at 1.1 mi, turn west (right) and cross the irrigation ditch, then immediately bear left to follow it southward on the other side. At about 1.5 mi, the road bends west (right) toward the mountains. At 2.4 mi, turn south (left) and ford the creek. At 3 mi, the road ends in a (very) small parking area.

The Route

A faint climbers' use trail heads west from the parking area on the south side of the creek. There are all sorts of boulders and cracks. The granite erodes into bizarre shapes, kind of like Danish Modern furniture. Huge pale crags tower over the valley and present opportunities for exploration.

The bottom of the canyon is a pretty serious thrash. The going is often better on the slopes, but cliffs and domes can force you back to the stream.

If you get high enough on the north side, you get a view of Haystack Peak and Ibapah Azimuth far above you.

Eventually the walls close in and you end up in the water on slippery boulders, bashing through thick vegetation. It's a gorgeous spot but the amount of work to get here is impressive.

I'm not going to provide a route map because there is no route!