Camp Adair to Oak Creek

Hike the length of McDonald Forest year round through old and new growth This is a good year round hike which if you are going from Adair to Oak Creek, starts with a gradual climb up the 540 road by the by the OSU sports logging training are and Cronemiller Lake. Just past the lake you take a right onto the 500 road and start a steep climb up to the "summit junction". At this point you have two choices, you can stay on the 500 road (or Netteton Rd) which continues a long climb, then a quick downhill or the 580 road (Davies Rd) which is up and down with better views and you go by the Quarry Pond. Either way ends at the Lewisburg Saddle (there are portajohns at this point). Cross Sulphur Springs Rd and follow the 600 road (or Patterson Rd) up to the Dimple Hill junction (go left on the 650 for a short steep hike to the top of Dimple Hill) where you stay to the right on the 600 road and start a long decent to the orange gate at the OSU Oak Creek Lab. There is a paved parking lot and portajohns at this location also.