Oredson-Todd Trails

The Oredson-Todd Trails are a 3 mile series of shaded, creek-side hiking trails and a mountain bike connector to the White Rabbit Trail.

Driving

– This 12 minute drive from Ashland Plaza starts south on Main Street/Siskiyou through town towards the university. Pass the university and in a couple miles you’ll turn right at the traffic light for Toleman Creek Road. In a few blocks you’ll turn right on Green Meadows Way and your first left will be Lupine Drive. Turn left and you’re there.

Parking

– There is room for 3 or 4 cars right there at the information sign at the trail head. Don’t start driving up that tempting driveway. Even though it is usable as a trail, it’s really just a driveway and there is no parking up there. You can always park back on Green Meadows Way.

The Adventure

– From the main information sign it’s easiest to just walk forward on the bark path through what feels like someone’s front lawn. Maybe it is, but the beginning of Oredson-Todd is mish-mash of public-private paths and driveways. This main lower trail is where Mountain Bikers can access the White Rabbit Trail so everybody play nice.

Even before you get to the creek bed the “webbing of trails” begins. You can hike along the creek for about a mile before the trails end at an intermittent water fall. You can skip the creek and take a number of routes head uphill on the other side of the creek and will connect to The White Rabbit Trail, Mike Uhtoff Trail, and Park Street. Don’t worry, it’s still mostly shady over there and there are a number of trails that return to the creek.

If you exit the trail system at the upper entrance you will see a substantial Oredson-Todd trail sign. You can’t park there, and it is along a private driveway – which you have walking access to – but the whole thing feels odd. Like a private community is “allowing regular people” to use their trail but making it slightly inconvenient to do so. It is totally public, just seems odd. But the creek is cool and the bridges are cool and the trails are cool, so go there and be cool.