Bigfoot Trap Applegate Lake southern Oregon June 2009

Southern Oregon is home to what is most likely the only official Bigfoot trap in the world. The ten by ten structure was built back in the early 70s by special permit. A wildlife research team out of Eugene, Oregon was inspired to build the structure by sightings from far back as the late 18-hundreds to up to the time they constructed the trap.

It wasnt an early task. In 1974, Applegate dam that now impounds Applegate lake didnt even exist and the hike up to the construction site was a long and hard one from the valley below.
Fortunately today access to the trap is a relatively comfortable hike. The Collings Mountain Trail, is named for one of the pioneer mining families that came to Southern Oregon in the 1850s.
The Collings Mountain Trail (No. 943) is easy to spot just about 300 feet past the Hart-Tish Park entrance. The Bigfoot track on the trail marker on the right hand side of the road lets you know you are at the trailhead.
Hiking video.
The trail follows Grouse Creek for about roughly three quarters of a mile through stands of Douglas fir, bigleaf maple and madrone and an abundance of poison oak.
This miners cabin or watchmans cabin also housed an electronic alarm that would be activated if Bigfoot or anything else tripped the door in the trap. It wouldnt take long to get to the trap if the alarm went off it is just about two hundred feet up a spur trail off the of the main trail.
There are hefty 12-inch wide and two-inch thick planks that form the ceiling, floor and four sides of the Bigfoot trap. Then there's the heavy expanded metal grate and telephone poles that anchor the 10-foot by 10-foot wooden cage to the ground. The steel door trap was locked open in 1980 to end its era of an active Bigfoot trap.
Time and weather are taking their toll on the Bigfoot trap. Inside the thick wooden beams have given way to the winter rains that have leaked through the roof signaling the trap will one day end up like the miners cabin below.
The Bigfoot trap is a popular hike and is well worth it just for the flora and fawna but seeing what may well be the only Bigfoot trap of its kind in the world and now the only non-functioning Bigfoot trap of its kind. is certainly the icing on the cake. I'm Scott Walter Reporting.
The Bigfoot trap is about 26 miles south of Medford. To reach it, take Highway 238 west to Ruch, then turn left on the Applegate Road to the Applegate Dam. Drive past the dam and the Hart-Tish Park entrance.
Stop several hundred feet past the park at the Collings Mountain Trailhead on the right. It's marked by a sign, with a footprint insignia on it. There is also a U.S. Forest Service Office at Star Gulch... about 8 miles before you get to the trailhead. They are very helpful inside.

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[0aceis]

do you have any videos on lake selmac

[scottwalt]

@0aceis ... Sorry I don't... Scott.

[ctcurry]

Great video, history and reporting. Thanks for sharing!

[scottwalt]

Thank you.

[clewi1091]

nice video. when was last sighting in the area?

[scottwalt]

Thanks... I'm not sure on the last sighting... but I can tell you my friend and I had a very... very interesting experience when we arrived the old miners cabin just below the trap!

[laughingcrows]

Tear it down. It should be illegal.

[RedwoodExplorer]

Its an interesting structure to visit. The spot has an entirely different feel in winter. I've got a couple of photos with snow on the ground. On my web page for it, a few words are offered that it's not really worth the drive unless someone plans to be in the area anyway.

[NowLifeStarts]

I've seen a bigfoot. No joke. Anyone who think's they are the only human like species on this planet are extremely ignorant.

[minesandlookouts]

nice, i live in applegate and have been there sevral times

[Erbag46]

Hi, I put this video on my blog Bigfoot Ballyhoo. I hope it is okay. If you would like me to take it off, just let me know. Thanks, Linda Newton-Perry

[1acroyear1]

LMFAO! Stupidest thing I've ever seen.

Assuming Bigfoot is real:

1) As big as it is, it must REALLY make an effort to get into the trap in the first place.

2) It knows what a human-made artifact is and would avoid it. Mountain gorillas are known to recognize and dismantle trip-wire snares in the wild (this is visually documented). You think Bigfoot wouldn't be at LEAST that smart?

Act like you're trying to catch a man and you'll bag yourself a Bigfoot.

[88arau]

What are you thinking putting this video on Youtube? Bigfoot is gonna find out. A trap is supposed to be secret

[biggerbigd]

I live a half hour from here. I must check it out. Thanks for posting.