These four easy loop trails are close enough together that you could do several in a day.  Dollar Mountain is the closest to downtown Grants Pass, the steepest, and the least kid-friendly.  On the south edge of town, the Cathedral Hills loop is stunning when the Indian warrior wildflowers bloom in spring.  Limpy Creek has a little waterfall that's a file goal for kids.  The Waters Creek loop extends from a meadow into a canyon of big Douglas fir trees.

To find the Dollar Mountain trailhead from Interstate 5, take the north Grants Pass exit #58, follow . . .

Limpy was the derogatory "white" name given to one of two Indians brothers whose families lived where Limpy Creek joins the Rogue River.  Limpy and his brother Cholcultah were among the more than 1400 Takelma, Tututni, and Dakubetede tribespeople rounded up by the U.S. Army after the bloody 1856 Rogue River Indian Wall and sent to a reservation on the northern Oregon Coast.  In 1996, an archeological excavation near the mouth of Limpy Creek found a 600-year-old Indian village with arrowheads, middens, and notched stone fishing net sinkers.  . . .

This chapter is an excerpt from 100 Hikes: Southern Oregon