Guides
The Bitterbrush and Nelson Loop Trails are fairly difficult mountain bike routes that form a lasso trail near Lyons, CO.
Unlike many of my other trail guides, this one is definitely a little more strenuous and technical. If you are riding a bike, prepare for steep climbs and rapid descents. There are some tricky corners and numerous rocks and roots in the trail. There is also great scenery, lots of wildlife, and a heck of a roller-coaster ride. Although this trail is...
6.2 mile trail near Fort Collins, Colorado
Horsetooth Rock is about 6.2 miles long and located near Fort Collins, Colorado. The trail is great for hiking and normally takes 1-3 hours. This is one of my all time favorite trails to hit near Fort Collins! It's close and can provide some spectacular views as well as a great workout!! You can add on a little distance and during a few months of...
17.8 mile trail near Glen Haven, Colorado
Miller Fork/Signal Mt/Donner Pass is about 17.8 miles long and located near Glen Haven, Colorado. The trail is great for hiking and normally takes a full day. So I didn't do a whole lot of planning on this trip, but turned out overly enjoyable! I just bought a pack for my dog and wanted to break him into it before my backpacking trip next week. I...
Gem Lake is a great little hike with some awesome free views of Estes Park. The hike starts just outside of Estes up Devils Gulch Road. Turn on to Lumpy Ridge Road and park in the lot. All the pictures were taken at the start of March.
Enjoy biking, hiking, or horseback riding on the Wapiti and Ponderosa Loop Trails at Heil Ranch northwest of Boulder.
Boulder has not been voted America's #1 Outdoor City for nothing. Heil Valley Ranch Open Space is one of the many reasons for Boulder's worldwide reputation. Although the name of this guide is Heil Ranch, the two trails featured here are the Wapiti Trail and the Ponderosa Loop trail. Together, they form what is known as a lasso trail. This trail...
15.6 mile trail near Meeker Park, Colorado
Longs Peak / Chasm Lake is about 15.6 miles long and located near Meeker Park, Colorado. The trail is great for hiking and normally takes a full day. Nice challenging, yet very rewarding hike! I started the hike at 5:05 A.M. and summited at 8:19 A.M. This is far from the recommended time frame that should be allowed to summit and return due to drastic...
Mix of easy and difficult terrain. Popular hiking area.
Lesser used area is entirely land locked by private property except where forest road enters between houses. Fun, challenging terrain. Great views from top of Miller Rock. Popular hiking area. Good for unlicensed vehicles except no place to park at start. Drive in 0.1 miles to small spot. Trail is open all year, weather permitting. You can exit through...
6.9 mile trail near Fall River Estates Subdivision, Colorado
The Loch is about 6.9 miles long and located near Bear Lake in the Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. The trail is great for hiking and normally takes a half day. Once we saw the water careening down the canyon so freely, We decided to hop over to the opposite side of the stream and scale rocks and ledges most of the way to capture most of the...
Trips
Horsetooth Falls Trail
Horsetooth Heights, Colorado, United States
Hiking | 2.9 miles (6.6 miles away)
Hiking | 2.9 miles (6.6 miles away)
This fast trail runs through the canyons of Horsetooth Mountain Open
Space near Fort Colins, Colorado. It begins at the parking lot of the
open space, heading to the left. At a fork in the trail, bear right to a
lone pine tree to continue. The trail runs down into the canyon, past
cactus and scrubland, until you reach a small spur about 1.2 miles into
the trail. This spur takes you...
10-Minute Encounter, Coyote Ridge
Trilby Corner, Colorado, United States
Hiking | 7.0 miles (7.4 miles away)
Hiking | 7.0 miles (7.4 miles away)
Since I'm not a "flower person", it's not often that I come back from a wildflower hike WOWed. But the experience on this wildflower hike with a local hiking group, I will never forget!It's been a couple of years since I last encountered a prairie rattler. Under quite different circumstances. Chuffy, my yellow lab went nose-to-nose with one on our early morning hike in the Maxwell Natural Area. Before I could pull...
First off, this was my first attempt with the iPhone application. Not very impressive. Somehow the track got a bit messed up. and I had to manually create it. The pictures came across pretty good though.Nice day for a hike. In between storms. There was about three inches of fresh powder on the ground which made the initial climb from the parking lot doable despite the warnings to use the Mill Creek...
The Greyrock trail is a popular Fort Collins hike, with very little windshield time, and offers a good workout. If you choose to go all the way to the summit, you'll be rewarded with views of the Plains to the east, Mummy Range to the south, and the Rawahs to the west.The trail we hiked was a loop trail, south of Greyrock, the western leg of which leads through the Greyrock Meadows. ...
Lily Mountain Trail, Roosevelt National Forest
Beaver Point, Colorado, United States
Hiking | 4.1 miles (30 miles away)
Hiking | 4.1 miles (30 miles away)
You'll see views of Longs Peak, Mt Meeker, Twin Sisters, Meadow, St. Vrain Mtns. Also the Mummy Range, and the Continental Divide from McHenrys Peak to Flattop Mtn.Lily Mtn (9,786') is only a 2 mile hike on a well-maintained trail; great for a 1/2-day hike to strech your legs. The summit offers some awesome views that you would not expect from the view of the summit from the highway. You'll also...
The Blue Sky Trail, connecting the Devil's Backbone Open Space to Horsetooth Mountain Open Space along the Front Range mountain backdrop, has been on Larimer County's wish list for over ten years. Traversing through 4,000 acres of protected foothills open space is one of the premiere regional trails in Northern Colorado for hiking, biking, and horseback riding and crosses only one road over the total 15-mile distance. The land acquisitions to allow...
Great views of Longs Peak (Elev 14,259'), Mt. Meeker (13,911’), Mt Lady Washington (13,281'), as well as Powell Pk (13,208’) and Estes Cone (11,006')....well worth the climb. You will catch a glimpse of Longs Pk's "Diamond", as well as Estes Park to the north, and Indian Peaks to the south.The trailhead is well marked, with adequate parking. The trail climbs 2.5 mi.s along switchbacks, through lodgepole forest, reaching a saddle between The...
Wintersteen Trail, via Greyrock TH
Poudre Park, Colorado, United States
Hiking | 8.3 miles (13.0 miles away)
Hiking | 8.3 miles (13.0 miles away)
Our plan was to shuttle hike the old Wintersteen Pack Trail, by leaving a car at the Greyrock TH, and Gateway Park. Last Spring, we tried hiking the 5 mi. Wintersteen from the Gateway Park (low end) TH, but only got 3.5 mi.s before turning around, short of our goal.This time we hiked about 2 mi.s up the well maintained Greyrock Trail, looking for the junction with the Wintersteen. The old pack...
Biggest bang for the buck! The is the little hike that could. Triangle Mountain (8,415') is a great hike to introduce flatlanders or young hikers to the mountains. The 1200' vertical climb and 3.3 mi. roundtrip strech is easily doable, and the views of the Continental Divide from the summit are wonderful.We were surprised to find in the summit register that Gerry & Jennifer Roach found this little knob worthy to climb...twice...
Chasm Lake is tucked in below Longs Peak (14,255') "Diamond" Face. It offers some outstanding views of Longs summit, the "Loft", "Lambs Slide", the "Ships Prow", and surrounding minor peaks like Estes Cone, Twin Sisters, Mt Lady Washington. The trail to Chasm Lake is well worth the 2400' climb.
We had great weather for the climb. We met a couple on Mills Moraine
that were descending from overnighting at Chasm Meadow. They were
wearing crampons,...
Greyrock Scramble--Greyrock Mtn NOT!
Poudre Park, Colorado, United States
Hiking | 9.5 miles (12.9 miles away)
Hiking | 9.5 miles (12.9 miles away)
Greyrock Mtn (7,613') is a popular trip for Fort Collins hikers. So this hike was not about repeating what many of us have already done, many times. But rather to see an unknown side of Greyrock....climbing 4 ranked peaks that are neighbors to Greyrock Mtn:Point 7180"North Greyrock", Pt 7681"Aiguille du Greyrock", Pt 7456"South Greyrock", Pt 7309Fortunately, we had a master mountaineer of northern Colorado who orchestrated the climbs. Without his guidance, the...
A short hike supplies a good view into the Poudre Canyon.
