Some Directions to Ammonite Falls
Ammonite Falls can be approached from several directions.
Here are the most reliable instructions, for a hike that climbs up slightly from the clearcuts off Jameson, and then drops down to the creek, upstream from Ammonite Falls. (Thanks to Carol, who submitted these.):
Directions to Ammonite Falls
April 7, 2007
Drive - From Jingle Pot Road, turn onto Kilpatrick Road. Take the first right onto Jameson Road. Follow Jameson to the end. There is a paved sideroad to the right called Creekside which goes into a new development. Continue straight on Jameson onto the gravel. You can park a few hundred feet up the gravel, near the yellow gate.
Hike up the logging road, past the yellow gate, through the Malaspina University-College woodlot. This is obviously a tree farm. Keep going straight. At the Y junction in the road stay right - do not go left up the steep hill.
You will cross a bit of a clear cut, then an unmanaged forest, where the road narrows into a single-wide trail. About 100 feet into the forest, there is a rough looking trail that branches right off the main trail UP a small bank. On April 7, 2007, there was a small wooden sign on a tree with "Ammonite Falls" faintly but legibly written on it.
Take this trail and follow it over the hump and down the other side of the hill. After it levels out, you will see and hear Benson Creek to your left. You will continue on out of earshot of the creek, and then come to another fork in the trail, where there is a blue “No Littering” sign on a tree. Stay to the the left, past the sign. This will soon lead to a ridge above the creek and on to a firepit and an old road. Just across the road (don't follow the old road) and to the right is a trail that will lead you in about 75 feet to the top of the falls. There are fairly secure knotted ropes to help down the last, steep, muddy slope to the base of the falls.
End of submitted directions
Other Approaches to Ammonite Falls
The renowned bike trails at Dumont Rd. near Brannen Lake offer a more convoluted and potentially adventurous (easier to get lost) way in to Ammonite Falls. These trails, adjacent to the Wastelands Motocross Track, were built in part by labour contributed by inmates of the Brannen Lake Prison. Hence names like the Mary Jane Trail. It was travelling from this direction that I first saw these wonderful falls for my first time. Expect to criss-cross through steep, lush canyons.