Directions to the Lee Thomas Meadows Camp for the Fish Packing and Dead Horse Rim Trail Work from Klamath Falls
If you pay attention to these directions and follow them closely, you will have no trouble finding the camp site (cabins) on the J-Spear Ranch Co. land at Lee Thomas Meadow.
1. Travel east on Highway 140 to Bly.
2. Just a little over a mile past Bly (east of Bly) take the two-lane paved road turning left (north). I believe it is the Cambell Road and I think there is a sign there that says Dairy Creek.
3. Turn right on Forest Road 34 one half mile from Highway 140. There is a sign there that says Dairy Creek. This is a paved (chip seal) single lane road.
4. Stay on Road 34 until you go down the hill and cross Dairy Creek, I think about 18 miles. While traveling on Road 34 you will pass Campbell Reservoir on your left (a short strip of gravel road there), you will next pass Mitchell Monument, then climb the hill to the old Mitten Springs camp, and pass Camp Creek.
5. When you get to the Corral Creek area and the road that turns left to a Gearhart Wilderness trailhead at Lookout Rock, stay on the paved Road 34. There is a another paved Forest Road 3660 that angles off to the right (south) here that you must not take. This junction is very close to the junction with the road to the Lookout Rock Trailhead in the Gearhart Wilderness. Stay on Road 34 straight ahead here. If you mistakenly turn right on Road 3660, it will take you back to Highway 140 at the top of Quartz Mtn.
7. Continue on Road 34 down the hill and cross the Dairy Creek Bridge. Immediately across Dairy Creek there is a four-way junction. Turn left at this junction on to gravel Forest Road 3372.
8. Stay on Road 3372 about 10 miles to another four-way junction with Forest Road 3411. While traveling Road 3372 you will pass the road to the left that goes to the Blue Lake Trailhead into the Gearhart Wilderness (this trailhead is the one we will pack the fish from). Don’t turn on that road, pass that junction and continue on about two more miles to the four-way junction with Road 3411.
9. Turn right on Road 3411 and travel about 0.6 miles to the junction of the road that will take you into camp. The road into camp is before you get to the Forest Service Lee Thomas Campground.
10. This little road into the cabin is a narrow, dusty and rough road, ok for horse trailers, just slow. You will go through a steel gate (please leave the gate the way you found it, open or closed). There’s another gate at the cabin.
11. Please be careful driving around in the meadow in front of the cabin. There’s a spring overflow directly in front of the cabin and it can be very wet around and below the corrals.