Dollar Mountain Bike – Hieglan Entrance

This Dollar Mountain route is a 4 mile section with connections to 12 miles of mountain bike ‘mostly’ trails in Grants Pass Oregon. There are three uphill routes with a variety of downhill biking options. The Hieglan Trail Head is the most formal entrance. New paved parking and a bike repair stand.

Driving to The Hieglan Entrance
– From exit 58 off of interstate 5 you will be on Route 99 heading towards downtown Grants Pass. For The Hieglan Entrance, just after the underpass, turn right on Morgan Lane. A quick left and right at Hawthorn Ave keeps you on Morgan Lane. The next true intersection is Highland where you will turn right. In about 1/2 mile turn left onto Woodbrook Drive and then left instantly onto Hieglan Loop. This will dead end into the brand new mountain biking trailhead.

Parking For the Hieglan Entrace
– There are dozens of brand new spot to your right just after the newly planned housing construction is underway but just passed that there are another 8 spots right there at the trailhead to your left.

The Adventure

The Hieglan Street Trailhead
– This is a 4 mile mountain bike route with multiple options for 12 total miles of trails and routes. The uphill is 1/2 mile of switchbacks and I suggest that this is exactly why e-bikes were invented. Books might call this uphill “tedious” and I might call this “exhausting bullshit.” The map calls this Giddy-up! Either way, as you top out take the trail to the left and head over to the gravel access road. You will cross that road and now be riding on Krackin’-The-Bank.

This rolls downhill and then uphill for less than a mile where it connects with the gravel road on the other side of “the hub” and again you will cross the gravel access road and head downhill on a short trail. That will quickly end at a gravel access road that you will take up hill to “the hub” where you will take the soft right uphill on Non-Cents which parallels the gravel road atop the ridgeline. That trail crosses the gravel access road in the opposite direction and you will arrive at the top of Giddy-Up! At this intersection take the left fork and that 1/4 mile downhill winds it’s way down to your car. Boom. 4 miles. You’re welcome.