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Colorado Hiking
Hike List
The hikes are broken down into 5 groups depending on what city they are roughly west of (or
near to in a few cases). The cities are, from north to south: Ft. Collins; Denver; Colorado Springs; Pueblo; Walsenburg. All these cities have major roads heading west into the mountains. Each hike has its own webpage that is linked to the names below.
The hike descriptions have information on elevation gains that captures the topographic ups and downs - not just the difference between the starting and ending elevations. Each hike has a difficulty rating which factors in its length, elevation gain and average altitude. Some of the hikes have 3D maps with a 2x vertical exaggeration.
Here's the coding for how physically strenuous
the hikes are......
Easiest 1
2 3
4 5
Hardest
Here's the abbreviations for what mountain
range the hikes are in:
FR= Front Range; WM= Wet Mts.; SdC= Sangre de Cristo Range; SR= Sawatch Range;
MR= Mosquito Range; EM= Elk Mts.; WE= West Elk Mts.; P= plains
west of Ft. Collins
| Chasm Lake FR 4 |
| Greyrock Mountain FR 2 |
| Little Yellowstone Canyon FR 1 |
| Sand Beach Lake FR 3 |
west of Denver
| Chicago Lakes FR 2 | Mount Bierstadt (14er) FR 3 |
| Dinosaur Ridge & I-70 road cut FR 1 | Mount Democrat (14er) FR 2 |
| Grays and Torreys Peaks (14ers) FR 4 | Rock Creek to crest of the Platte River Mts FR 3 |
west of Colorado Springs
west of Pueblo
| Apache Falls from Bartlett Trailhead WM 3 | Newlin Creek WM 2 |
| Black Canyon of the Gunnison WE 1 | North Red Ck. to Siloam WM 2 |
| Comanche Peak SdC 5 | Pueblo Mountain Park WM 2 |
| Curley Peak WM 4 | Pueblo Mt. Park to Davenport Campground WM 4 |
| Greenhorn Mountain WM 2 | Shelf Road and Phantom Cyn Road loop FR 1 |
| Greenhorn Trail WM 5 | Snowslide WM 4 |
| Lakes of the Clouds SdC 3 | South Colony Lakes SdC 2 or 5 |
| Lewis Creek WM 3 | Storm Pass WE 5 |
| Millset Trail WM 4 | Tanner Peak WM 4 |
| Mount Ouray SR 5 | Trail Gulch FR 4 |
west of Walsenburg
| Lilly Lake SdC 3 | West Spanish Peak P 5 |
Outside of Colorado
| Bright Angel Trail to Plateau Point, South Rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona 4 in cool conditions 5 in hot conditions |
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