The Lightning Ridge trail is a 13.5 mile ride between Deadwood Reservoir and Forest Service road NF-611 (Lightning ridge road) in Garden valley.\u00a0 Linda Hays and I rode some of this trail from the west, Garden Valley end.\u00a0 The one lane road to the trail head is in very good shape, and the parking for trailers is limited, so this is not a good chapter ride.\u00a0 But for small groups, of not more then maybe 4 trailers this trail offers one of Idaho’s best ridge rides.\u00a0 This is not a ride for people or horses that don’t like to climb and are not comfortable riding on a hill side, as this trail has both.\u00a0 It also has some wonderful granite rock formations and great views of Scott Mountain, Onion Valley, Garden Valley and the surrounding mountains.\u00a0 During our ride the wild flowers were doing their best to cover the hillsides.\u00a0 The west end of this trail is dry, not crossing any streams and the section we rode did not have a lot of shade.\u00a0 On our trail scale of 1 to 5 with one being a flat dirt road and 5 being OMG, this is a 3.5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Lightning Ridge trail is a 13.5 mile ride between Deadwood Reservoir and Forest Service road NF-611 (Lightning ridge road) in Garden valley.\u00a0 Linda Hays and I rode some of this trail from the west, Garden Valley end.\u00a0 The one lane road to the trail head is in very good shape, and the parking for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-rides","category-work-parties-and-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}