Total Recall Trail: uphill with Peavine Peak in view

Colorful mountain bikers on Total Recall Trail

Peavine Peak seen from Total Recall/Stage Coach trail junction

The Total Recall Trail connects the Keystone Canyon north of Reno with the Lingles Loop area of the Peavine Trails network. This single-track hiking and mountain-biking trail begins at trail marker 60 on the Keystone Canyon Trail.

Total Recall Trail starting out of Keystone Canyon

First, it leads north-northwestward to junctions with the Stage Coach Trail and Poedunk Trail. The radio towers are always in view. Total Recall climbs up to its junction with the Halo Trail and further onto the ridge with the Rock Pile and the bench. This is the the other end of the Stage Coach Trail (trail marker 65)—obviously, you have various loop options here. This ridge-top trail junction offers scenic views of Mount Peavine. It is a meeting and socializing hot spot, currently with social distancing rules you want to keep continuing with by following the temporary Covid-19 directional trail recommendations

Mormon Tea brush (green ephedra) next to Total Recall Trail

After a short downhill hike or ride and a pleasant valley-meadow section, Total Recall ascends toward the Lingles Loop, Bobsled, Colpo Cyn and Scrub Brush Trail.

Dwarf onions flowering off Total Recall Trail

To get back to the Keystone Canyon, you may want to consider taking the short Over Easy Trail at the south tip of the Lingles Loop and then follow the Bacon Strip and Halo Trail downhill to the Snow Terraces, from where the Snow Terrace Snow Terraces Trail and Fisticuffs Trail leads you down into the canyon.

More about Total Recall Trail

Total Recall is a popular mountain biking trail: a 3.1-mile-point-to-point singletrack rated as intermediate with an average grade of 6% and a maximum grade of 17%.