Follow the Grizzly Den trail past 8 Mile Cabin, through spruce-fir forest and wet meadow sections, crossing the small creeks on the established route to Grizzly Den Cabin. The cabin approach is about 6 km one way in the park brochure. Continuing to the peak makes this a longer outing; the same brochure gives approximately 9 km one way and 1,050 m of climbing to the peak, rather than the cabin hike’s 600 m. The brochure does not provide a complete sequence of upper-ridge junctions, so plan the summit extension with an appropriate topographic map rather than treating the cabin directions as a full peak route.
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one way, February 2002 park brochure The round-trip distance is calculated from the published one-way length.
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Use the Grizzly Den trailhead on Hungary Creek Forest Service Road. From Highway 16 east of Prince George, turn onto Hungary Creek Road and continue to the Grizzly Den parking area before the road continues toward Raven Lake. Published road distances vary slightly; the park brochure gives approximately 13 km from the highway. The road is not plowed in winter, so winter trips can include a substantial additional approach.
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Map position: 53.77911, -121.49621 · destination reference point. Cabin steward publishes this approximate trailhead coordinate. It lies within 4 m of the reviewed mapped parking-approach vertex; not field verified. This point is not a confirmed starting point for the selected route option.
Follow the Grizzly Den trail past 8 Mile Cabin, through spruce-fir forest and wet meadow sections, crossing the small creeks on the established route to Grizzly Den Cabin. The cabin approach is about 6 km one way in the park brochure. Continuing to the peak makes this a longer outing; the same brochure gives approximately 9 km one way and 1,050 m of climbing to the peak, rather than the cabin hike’s 600 m. The brochure does not provide a complete sequence of upper-ridge junctions, so plan the summit extension with an appropriate topographic map rather than treating the cabin directions as a full peak route.
The Hungary Creek road is not winter-plowed. Snow routes, avalanche terrain and the additional road approach need separate winter planning. A dated report records plankway construction in the lower wet meadows continuing in August 2026; it does not establish that all wet sections have been replaced by boardwalk.
Work on plankways through lower Grizzly Den Meadows began in September 2025 and was still underway in August 2026. Expect construction and incomplete sections unless a newer source confirms completion.
Notice or observation: 2026-08 · Source checked October 17, 2026 · Caledonia Ramblers (opens original source)These are dated research notes. Open the trip planner for current available weather and advisory feeds; no alert found does not establish that a trail or road is open.
Booking information confirmed · Published capacity: 10
Rebuilt in 2024, with five double mattresses for up to ten people. Nearby water can dry up; check the operator’s water directions. Hungary Creek FSR is unplowed in winter.
Check bookings with Prince George Backcountry Recreation Society ↗Grizzly Den has a rustic cabin, backcountry camping and a pit toilet. Confirm cabin booking and current tenting instructions before an overnight stay; the summit itself is not identified as a designated campsite.
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Continue beyond Grizzly Den Cabin for a longer mountain outing above the forest and wet meadows. The summit needs its own navigation plan and adds substantial travel to the cabin…
18 km round trip / Not established gainRead guide →A short summer forest walk to a rustic six-person cabin on the Grizzly Den approach. Winter access adds the unplowed forest road.
Easy / 1.5 km round trip / 90 m gainRead guide →Alpine connection through Pat’s Pass joins Grizzly Den and Raven Lake; Leprechaun Ridge and Raven Peak are optional harder variants.
Hard / 18 km loop / 750 m gainRead guide →Climb through the forest into Raven Lake’s subalpine basin, where the lakeside cabin is the usual turnaround. Return by the same trail; ridge trips and the Grizzly Den crossover…
Moderate / 10 km round trip / 522 m gainRead guide →Climbs through Caribou Meadows to lake and ridge; rough connector to Sugarbowl is a separate traverse.
Hard / 14 km round trip / 1,110 m gainRead guide →The Viking approach climbs through forest and the wet Caribou Meadows before reaching a small lake below the summit. This outing turns at the lake and returns by the same trail.
11 km round trip / Not established gainRead guide →