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Trail Facts
- Distance: 16.3
Waypoints
RBC001
Location: 35.005568, -95.337766
Head N up yellow-marked trail to a cave near a sandstone outcrop
RBC002
Location: 35.006245, -95.339111
Enter Robbers Cave, where Jesse James hid from the law (look for secret entrance inside). Return to lot; head SW on Rough Canyon Traill
RBC003
Location: 35.004215, -95.340103
Fourche Maline Creek; head NW up steady slope. In .4 mi., go straight over 2 gravel road crossings
RBC004
Location: 35.006866, -95.350723
Bear L @ Mountain Trail; in 800 ft., take blind R around oak and descend rockslide to forge creek safely
RBC005
Location: 35.006473, -95.352057
L @ Y; woodpecker drums resonate from the branches above
RBC006
Location: 35.007862, -95.362694
Cross stream on flat stones; head SW under short-needle evergreens
RBC007
Location: 35.006119, -95.364639
Straight @ Ash Creek Rd., and skirt the NW edge of Lake Wayne Wallace among wispy meadow grasses
RBC008
Location: 35.002476, -95.365318
Bear L @ Y; hug shore, then climb 280 ft.; pass primitive campsite
RBC009
Location: 34.995773, -95.362572
Go straight; cross creekbeds
RBC010
Location: 34.98011, -95.364807
Scenic overlook over Lake Carlton; return to WPT 5 and turn L @ Y onto Cattail Pond Trail
RBC011
Location: 35.013611, -95.349907
Stay R; cattails on L shelter waterfowl in murky pond
RBC012
Location: 35.010727, -95.345551
Turn L to Lost Lake via Rough Canyon Trail; frog chorus leads to unnamed pond in .2 mi.
RBC013
Location: 35.008301, -95.3349
Cross gravel road; follow railed concrete path .3 mi. to parking lot
Scenic Overlook
Location: 34.980446, -95.365822
Lake Carlton ©Carl Kinney
View over Lake Carlton
Location: 34.982124, -95.365891
©Carl Kinney