Ruby Gulch, Forest Road 328

I have camped here multiple times in different spots and explored most of the gulch and old mining locations. It’s great to bring the kids and explore creating a story core memory for them. It is possible to get even lower clearance vehicles in just take it slow. There is a crick the flows through the gulch with tons of beautiful hillsides with abandoned,game made,and forest path through. It was apart of the abandoned oxbow mine. The hiking trail through the gulch does lead back up to the road and is about a 7mile hike that gets very arduous the last 2 miles but worth it. In total if you can find them there is 22 closed mining shafts from years ago. Lots of tree coverage and very cute camping. The downside is some campers that have rolled through are party animals or like to bring atv’s or dirt bikes which is dumb there is not much room for them to play here. Also the party animals seem to need an education lesson on leave no trace. But aside from them it’s a good family spot to take the kids or get away on a budget not many bugs low light and noise pollution overall.

Right off the highway and about :15 from Neaderland which was nice but quite noisy at night. Kind of trashed (sadly) so I was a little nervous camping.

I think most of the campsites are only accessible via an extremely rough road that was impassable for my Honda Civic. If you can make it down that road, you’ll probably have a much better experience. I slept at the closest campsite to the highway. Tons of trash - I think somebody took all their belongings and dumped them out here, trash bags full of clothes, a mattress, plus lots of broken bottles and stuff. There’s a fire pit and plenty of deadfall to burn. The highway was quite busy all night. No bugs. No water access of any kind. There’s only one campsite that doesn’t require you to take the rough road, so 4WD probably improves campsite availability quite a bit.