Dollar Mountain rises just to the west of downtown Grants Pass, Oregon. The hike to its summit from the trailhead on B Street is short but a little steep in places (2 miles round-trip; 800 feet of gain). The summit isn’t really the point here since it’s graced with a delightfully obnoxious communications tower and there are no views from there. Those can be had from openings along the trail as it climbs through a beautiful oak and manzanita forest. If you time it right (we just missed the peak of the bloom) there will be an understory of wildflowers to distract you.
We’d saved Dollar for a day when we had non-hiking stuff 😦 to do but still wanted to squeeze in a hike. So when this morning dawned sunny and bright, we did a quick out-and-back to Dollar followed by restorative libations at Climate City Brewing. Thus fortified, the non-hiking stuff seemed easier to deal with…
BOOTS on the TRAIL 
I knew you’d appreciate a tower shot. We were dissuaded from climbing the tower by the barbed wire surrounding it, the fearsome “federal installation / no trespassing” signs, and the lack of an escalator.
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Glad you got at least one radio tower shot in there 🙂 You occasionally have to climb a few dozen feet up those towers to really get the best summit views.
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