Olive Lake
Easy (around Olive Lake)
2.7-mile loop
50 feet elevation gain
Open June through November
Use: hikers, horses, bicycles
Difficult (to Lost Creek)
11.9-mile loop
1860 feet elevation gain
Open July through October
Use: hikers, horses
Campers at this popular lake in the Greenhorn Mountains often hike around the shoreline trail, but relatively few have discovered the longer, more difficult loop to the alpine viewpoints on Saddle Ridge and the meadows of Lost Creek.
From downtown Baker City, drive . . .
This chapter is an excerpt from 100 Hikes: Eastern Oregon