Deep Creek Mountains WSA

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A friend and I are going to the Deep Creek Mountains WSA on Oct. 15th for 4 days of backpacking and hiking. I can't find a lot of info but it looks like we should park along the Tom's Canyon road and go up from there. Anybody have any experience in this area or advice?
 
I've dayhiked a little up there, but I've never backpacked it. Are there enough trails to do 4 days?
 
One site I found said there are 20 miles of trails in Toms Canyon alone. One of the main things I want to accomplish is to go up high enough to see some Bristlecone Pines.
 
I'm sorry I'm not much help. I went up there a few times, but I didn't spend much time there because it was pretty steep hiking to get up into the mountains, and it was a fairly long drive from Salt Lake for the effort.

There's not much to it, but here are some pictures from up there on my website:

http://outsidebynature.com/main/toms-canyon/
 
I have hunted deer and elk for about twenty years from water canyon in the south to overland canyon on the north... Not much of it I haven't seen. What kind of info you need.
 
Goshute canyon has pretty cool mines and a ghost town. Granite Creek is nice. Hardscrabble is tough. You can drive to the top of middle basin to access the inner basin....some petroglyphs in there. Old plane crash site on Ricky peak. Like canyon is nice. Chokecherry a little tougher but nice. You can drive aways in toms cyn. Decent loop from granite over red mountain out trout creek. Much more south you run into Indian land...I'd have to look at my maps.
 
Deer hunters are around. Be prepared for any kind of weather....it can change in a hurry and out there that can be deadly....especially up high....
 
Thanks for the info Bob. Will there be hunters there Oct. 15th - 18th?
 
I just looked it up and it is hunting season for rifles. Is there a part of the Deep Creeks that won't have hunters or should I look for a different place in Utah to do a 4 day backpacking trip?
 
Most hunters are in the foothills, in canyons not far off roads...... we used to backpack in for a week....up Granite, Pole Canyon mainly. Some years we saw them some years not....up high generally not. All depends on your tolerance to people out there toting rifles...
 
Thanks Bob, I used to hunt deer and I'm very respectful and careful not to interfere with hunters. Since we have two big dogs we've decided to camp and hike the Pony Express Trail around Simpsons Springs and Dugway Pass.
 
You will get hunters and ATVs there as well. Opening weekend isn't the greatest time to get out and hike..... Check out the Fish Springs Mountains....not many hunt there. There was a old ghost town on the NW end of it you could drive to....don't know whats left. Or go farther north to the Silver reef, floating Islands ..... a little north of Wendover.... the NewFoundlands just west of Great Salt Lake are neat...access only from the Pump station on the north...
 
Thanks for the suggestions Bob. The Silver Island Range looks interesting so we may go there. Good luck on your hunt.
 
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