What's the story with Mosquito Creek road in the winter?

[jibler]

trailhead page says

Mosquito Pass is closed for winter and the Mosquito Gulch road is usually blocked 3 miles in from Highway 9.

but what does that mean?

could someone park at the closed winter gate and walk up from there? is that frowned upon?

your insight appreciated

[12ersRule]

Yes. You can walk the road if you choose. Here's a ski report. https://www.14ers.com/php14ers/triprepo ... trip=15748

[jibler]

Yes. You can walk the road if you choose. Here's a ski report. https://www.14ers.com/php14ers/triprepo ... trip=15748

word!

I'm wracking my brain to go somewhere new before the snow really starts falling -- heading up that way seems like an easy win --hopefully!

[Jon Frohlich]

Unless there's a gate now there didn't used to be. I think by "blocked" it just means "not plowed".

I say this because we drove in a few years back to do Tweto and the other peaks back there in January and were able to drive much farther than 3 miles. It's just a matter of the snow levels (unless there's a gate now).

[jibler]

can you go towards the left up that road towards that mine and the south side of London Mountain?


wondering if that whole road/area is private (mine) property or public?

seems like a nice wrap around London Mountain would be nice jaunt up in there - snow permitting....

[Jim Davies]

I'm pretty sure it's private, and there was somebody mining the tailing piles there a few years back. But you can probably avoid them in the winter. I saw some ATVers running around there last year, and nobody seemed to care.