Upper Coldwater FSR

Cascades Natural Resource District
Distance
13.45 km
Last Road Report
Aug 09, 2025
Closures
No Posted Closures
Location
Upper Coldwater FSR
Permit Holder
District Manager Cascades (dcs)
Waypoints
Conditions
Start to 6.0 km
Good Condition
118d ago
6.0 to 8.0 km
Somewhat Degraded
118d ago
8.0 to 13.4 km
Somewhat Degraded
131d ago
Description

No description.

Road Bulletins
Heath Anderson reported on: Aug 09, 2025
The first ~6km of this road is in pretty good condition. Was easily driven in my bmw 3 series. After this, it became a little steeper, much more loose and scratchy. Ample parking at the bottom of the hill for those like me at 49.64451, -121.06929
Tareef Dedhar reported on: Jul 27, 2025
Green section is rough road, not super well graded, but certainly doable in almost anything. No water bars, only slight overgrowth (brushing against some leaves, no damage should occur)

Yellow is super overgrown. Some large holes, no real big water bars, but medium clearance obstacles for sure. Biggest thing is overgrowth, it starts out not bad, but quickly gets thick, like, vehicular bushwhacking thick. You can get through, and we did, but expect serious pinstriping. Not just brushing against stuff, but thick branches. It isn't continuous, but it does fluctuate for the entire length, and parking spots/pulloffs are sparse

There are a couple downed boulders, but they can be bypassed, both my SUV and a pickup that came later were able to do so

We parked a bit past the 12km mark, as progress was slow, and we were close enough that it didn't matter, but it never got worse than what w'd already been through, and wasn't thick continuously after that either. you could go to the end
Brian Georgievski reported on: Jul 25, 2025
Made it to the Zum Rec Site in my 2010 Corolla. Any SUV would have absolutely no problem. We bottomed out a few times near the end due to hauling two bikes on the back. Minimal pinstriping in a small car but something larger would definitely get scratched quite a bit. The FSR past the Zum area honestly isn't worth driving. You can get another 4km but a large boulder recently blocked the road. It is generally all flat but is very narrow. Take bikes instead and save your vehicle.
Aa Aa reported on: Aug 03, 2024
Road is rough but passable to subarus up to Zum Peak rec site but is growing in with mandatory pin stripes up to Zum Peak rec site, extreme pin stripes after that and need high clearance unless you want to leave parts of your exhaust behind like we saw a Rav4 doing.
SWBC Peak Baggers reported on: Nov 09, 2023
[From Abe Derish] - We drove a couple k past Little Douglas Lake Rec Site, the Adler is growing in but the road is 2wd
Paul Lezica reported on: Oct 11, 2023
Was easily passable to the Zum Peak rec site but becomes very overgrown soon after that point.