For the most part, Greenstone Mountain and the surrounding hills are used by off-road bikes, quads, and snowmobiles, but the area is accessible to hikers, mountain bikers, and snowshoers.    It is a very large area with many backroads and trails and linking them up is not an easy matter.

As you approach Greenstone Mountain, you climb through the grasslands and come to an intersection.   The road to the right goes out toward the Duffy Lake area and is the “home” to the motorcycle community.   Numerous trails go off in every direction.   When I have hiked these, I have to be alert for bikes.   Some of the trails climb steeply and some just go in loops.   Generally speaking, the main roads are good for mountain biking and there are not really many good hiking trails.   All trails will be an exploration.

The fork to the left takes you past Ned Roberts Lake and then at the next intersection, take the right fork.   It climbs all the way to the top of Greenstone Mountain (21km).  The top is designated as a provincial park, although there are no established park services.   A communications tower stands at road’s end, but a double track bears south to the summit where a no-longer-used forestry lookout hut stands.   The views from here are outstanding.    There are also a few single track trails around the summit area, which is really a series of forested rocky bluffs.   There is a steep downhill mountain bike trail all the way down the power line to the north.

On the way up the Greenstone Mountain Road there are numerous side roads that can be explored.   All the roads to the right cross the face of the mountain and were used as access for logging.   Some link to motorcycle trails.  On the east, the lowest roads can be used to connect to the Inks Lakes area, but the routes are not easy to decipher.   Higher up, one of the sideroads leads off to logged areas and eventually links up to the Timber Lakes area.   I enjoyed mountain biking this area but numerous junctions and sideroads will be your challenge.

Higher up as the road enters the broad valley between Greenstone Mountain and Chuwhels Mountain.   The Chuwhels Lake FSR bears off and branches many times.   The Rabbit Flats Road has a number of options for mountain biking.  The next road (at N 50° 35.139 W 120° 36.126) leads into Chuwhels Lake.   It is about 700m on a 4WD track to the lake.   Coming back to the main road, the road cuts through a logged and replanted area.   The next two roads lead south to the plateau towards Dominic Lake, Paska Lake, the Dairy Lakes and numerous other smaller fishing lakes.   Until you hit the main roads, these high connector routes are very rough, suitable for a mountain bike, okay for hiking, but not great for a 2WD vehicle.

We have driven from the Logan Lake Road to Kamloops going over the top of Greenstone Mountain and another route past Dairy Lakes over the shoulder of Greenstone down towards Duffey Lake.   Both roads can be done, but both are rough roads best suited to high-clearance trucks with good clearance.   The road over the shoulder is particularly rough, steep, and unforgiving.  An interesting route is to mountain bike up the Mile High Road, then continue on past Dominic Lake, then veer north over the top of Greenstone Mountain and down.   You will get a 20km downhill ride on a good road if you can find someone to drop you off at the Mile High Road.