Red Feather Lakes, Colorado

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Red Feather Lakes, Colorado
Camp near Lost Lake (in the Red Feather Lakes area)

I need to start by saying I stayed here on Memorial Day weekend, a very busy camping weekend in Colorado. Online searches for a suitable campsite were useless, everything was booked. It is hard to drive 2 plus hours to an area and hope you find a place for dispersed camping. Thankfully a friend t...
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Bellvue, Colorado
Poudre Canyon Run

5.0

26.2 mi / 1800 ft gain

Stretching 126 miles from its source in the Rocky Mountain National Park, the Cache La Poudre (pronounced: Poo-ter) river provides host to an entire treasure trove of outdoor recreational activities. From Fly Fishing and rafting to camping and photography. Carved away by thousands of years of flo...
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Livermore, Colorado
Mt. McConnel Summit Trail Loop

4.26 mi / 1453 ft gain

This 4.3-mile round trip hike gains 1300 feet of elevation before reaching the Mt. McConnel summit. The primitive trail is rated as difficult and has an ascent of many switchbacks, leading up to a wild flower-covered summit. The trail winds along the ridge line around 8,000 feet, offering panoram...
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Bellvue, Colorado
Trail Run the Hewlett Gulch Trail

5.0

8.5 mi / 800 ft gain

Hewlett Gulch Trailhead is located about 20 minutes from Fort Collins and offers easy hiking in the Poudre Canyon.From Fort Collins, take 287 to Ted's Place. Take a left onto CO 14 and follow 14 through the canyon just past Poudre Park where you see the trailhead sign. Turn left onto the road tha...
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Bellvue, Colorado
Hike to Comanche Lake in Pingree Park

3.5

8 mi / 700 ft gain

You start out hiking through the average Colorado forest for the first 4 miles of the 7-8 mile trip at about 6,500 feet. The trail is largely downhill for the first couple miles until it levels out and you are headed North. A little more than halfway, you come to Comanche Reservoir and hike up al...
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Bellvue, Colorado
Climb Greyrock Mountain

5.0

7.1 mi / 3000 ft gain

The main trail begins at the Cache La Poudre river on the Poudre Canyon Highway about 30 minutes from Fort Collins. After about .75 miles the trail splits. To go left on Greyrock Meadows trail adds 2 miles to your trip and provides excellent views of Greyrock Mountain and Meadows from the south, ...
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Bellvue, Colorado
Photograph Poudre Falls

To get to Poudre Falls, simply drive up Poudre Canyon on Highway 14, just north-west of Fort Collins. The drive all of the way up to the falls is a little bit of a jaunt and will take about an hour or so. There are plenty of cool things to see on the way, so have the camera in the passenger seat...
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Bellvue, Colorado
Hike the Black Powder Trail

1.5 mi / 450 ft gain

The Gateway Natural Area, part of the City of Fort Collins public lands system, is a wonderful (and close to the city) place to begin exploring the many outdoor assets and activities found in the greater Fort Collins area. The Black Powder Trail is a relatively easy, well-marked 1.5 mile out and ...
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Laporte, Colorado
Hike the 3 Bar and Oh Tee Loops at Eagle's Nest Open Space

5 mi / 150 ft gain

To get to Eagle's Nest Open Space drive on Highway 287 between Laramie, Wyo. and Fort Collins, Colo. As you continue down 287, look for the Forks restaurant and rest stop in Livermore, Colo. Turn here onto Red Feather Lakes Road. After a few hundred feet on Red Feather Lakes Road, look for the E...
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Bellvue, Colorado
Snowshoe Sawmill Creek Trail

7 mi / 1660 ft gain

To reach the Sawmill Creek Trailhead you have to park at the Blue Lake Trailhead parking lot located across from Long Draw Road (Rd 156) Turn-off. Once you park here you'll see a big sign for the Blue Lake Trail but you'll have to continue following the road up (Southwest) for about 100 yards unt...
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Bellvue, Colorado
Winter camp at Zimmerman Lake

2.7 mi / 518 ft gain

This is a fairly popular snowshoeing and cross country skiing trail in the winter and offers a variety of additional trail options from the lake. Starting at the parking lot, the trailhead is easily accessed and begins the very gradual assent to Lake Zimmerman. Once at the lake, there are beautif...
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Laporte, Colorado
Hike the Bellvue Dome

2.8

1.75 mi / 600 ft gain

The Bellvue Dome, known locally as "Goat Hill", was created by the same geological forces that made the Rocky Mountains, but what makes this structure unique is its shape, the steep cliff on its western edge carved by the Cache la Poudre River at the base, and its prominent location dominating th...
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Wellington, Colorado
Climb Table Mountain in the Red Mountain Open Space

4.0

5 mi / 1200 ft gain

Table Mountain sits smack dab in the middle of Red Mountain Open Space, an area known to geologists (and settlers) as "The Big Hole", a singular and unique landform that peaks into the "basement" rocks that underly northern Colorado and Southeastern Wyoming. Soapstone cliffs and bright red Dakota...
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Wellington, Colorado
Hike the Bent Rock Trail at Red Mountain Open Space

2.6 mi / 200 ft gain

To get to Red Mountain Open Space from Fort Collins, take Highway 287 to Highway 1. Follow Highway 1 until you see County Road 15, get off there. This is where it gets confusing, so hang on. You will follow CR15 for a few miles until CR78, take a left onto CR78. Then take a right on CR17, then a ...
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Wellington, Colorado
Hike the K-Lynn Cameron Trail in the Red Mountain Open Space

5.4 mi / 800 ft gain

The K-Lynn Trail is a 2.4 mile loop trail that goes west off of the Ruby Wash Trail on the western side of the Red Mountain Open Space. To get there, take the Bent Rock Trail from the Red Mountain Open Space parking lot where the Red Canyon / Antelope Valley road dead-ends.Once on the Bent Rock T...
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Fort Collins, Colorado
Catch a Sunset at Bingham Hill Park

Bingham Hill Park sits on the northern terminus of the main hogsback/ridgeline that makes up the eastern wall of the Horsetooth Reservoir, just off the eponymously named Bingham Hill Road and minutes from downtown Fort Collins.From the top you look out over the Front Range, The Poudre River, Arth...
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