Manti-La Sal National Forest · Utah

Bachelor Basin

5.6 mi of trail, end to end · native material surface · trail No. 5034 · trail class 2 · typical grade 12-20% · tread 18-24 inches wide · hiking, horse

Trailhead Miner's Basin Trailhead Drive there

Miner's Basin Trailhead the Forest Service's write-up

Miner's Basin is located about three miles off the La Sal Mountain Loop Road at the end of a rough road that requires high clearance/ 4 wheel drive. There is one main trailhead that splits. The eastern spur is the Miner's Basin to Warner Lake trail , which has a spur trail to Gold Knob and another spur off called the Mountain View trail. The other trail that goes to the north is the Bachelor Basin trail .

Gold and copper were discovered in the Miner's Basin area around 1888 and a town was settled from the late 1880s until 1908. There was a hotel, general store, restaurants, two saloons, a post office, and other mining related services provided. However only limited amounts of gold, copper, and silver were found and this town closed up shortly after the mines did. You can still see the rusted equipment and a few buildings left standing in the basin which is about a 3/4 of a mile hike on the Miner's Basin to Warner Lake trail. At its peak, the town likely housed between 75-80 people but only a few families remained by 1908.

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About this trail's facts

The lines are the US Forest Service's National Forest System trails layer (public domain), read 2026-10-16 and simplified for the map; the length is the line's, end to end, and the class, surface, grade and tread width are the forest's own entries where it publishes them - a forest that publishes the centreline alone has none. The trailheads and the points along the way are the Service's recreation points, and the write-ups its own recarea text, unedited. Heights come from USGS 3DEP through Terrain Tiles on AWS (Mapzen/Tilezen), read along each line and rounded; a short trail on steep ground can be off by a few tens of feet. Closures change: check the forest's own site before you go.