Table of Contents
Meet Your Guide viii
Maps & Icon Legends x
Trail Finder Chart xi
Top 5 Hikes xiv
Before You Hit the Trail xvi
The Hikes: Routt National Forest, Including Mount Zirkel Wilderness 1
1 Hahns Peak 3
2 North Lake Trail 10
3 Wolverine Basin Trail 16
4 Three Island Lake 22
5 Mica Basin 28
Dinosaur National Monument and Browns Park 34
6 Harpers Corner Trail 36
7 Gates of Lodore Trail 42
8 Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge (BNWR) 50
Flat Fops Wilderness 56
9 Slide Mandall Lake 58
10 Carhart Trail around Trappers Lake 64
11 Skinny Fish Trail 72
12 Storm King Fourteen Memorial Hike 78
West Elks/Raggeds Wilderness 84
13 Oh-Be-Joyful Trail 86
14 Ruby Anthracite Trail 92
15 Anthracite Creek/Dark Canyon Trail 98
Hunter-Fryingpan/Holy Cross/Eagles Nest Wilderness Areas 104
16 Fryingpan Lakes Trail 106
17 Lost Man Trail 112
18 Nolan Lake Trail 118
Central Colorado Plateau/Colorado River Drainage 124
19 Rattlesnake Canyon Arches Trail 126
20 Mee Canyon 132
21 Monument Canyon Trail 138
22 Mt. Garfield Trail 144
23 Dominguez Canyon Trail 150
24 Juanita Arch 156
25 Dolores River Canyon Trail 162
26 Wildcat Trail 170
Grand Mesa 176
27 Crag Crest Trail 178
28 West Bench Trail 186
29 Lake of the Woods Trail to Bull Basin 194
30 Drop Off Trail 200
Black Canyon of the Gunnison 206
31 Deadhorse Trail-North Rim of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison 208
32 Ute Park-South Rim into Gunnison Gorge NCA 214
33 Bobcat Trail into the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River 220
Southern Rockies 226
34 Powderhorn Lakes 228
35 Fall Creek Trail 234
36 Portland Trail 240
37 Ice Lakes Trail 246
38 Blue Lakes Trail 254
39 Handies Peak 260
40 Piedra River Trail 266
41 Fourmile Trail to Fourmile Falls 274
42 Geyser Spring 280
Four Corners Area 286
43 Petroglyph Point-Mesa Verde National Park 288
44 Sand Canyon-Canyon of the Ancients National Monument 294
45 Cutthroat Castle-Hovenweep National Monument 300
Bonus Hikes at a Glance 307
1 Browns Park State Wildlife Area, Beaver Creek Unit 308
2 Irish Canyon 309
3 Devil's Causeway, Flat Tops 310
4 Sarvis Creek Trail, Sarvis Creek Wilderness Area 311
5 Timber Lake Trail, West Side of Rocky Mountain National Park 312
6 Eaglesmere Lakes 313
7 Fancy Pass 314
8 Little Elk Creek 315
9 Wetterhorn Basin 316
10 Quartz Lake in South San Juan Wilderness 317
11 Sharkstooth Pass 318
12 Lowry Ruins/Hovenweep National Monument 319
Index 321
