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Hike · Colorado Trail Segment 14 trailhead

Colorado Trail Segment 14

Distance
11.7 mi
Vertical
1,732 ft
Summit
10,190 ft
Difficulty
Very strenuous

Segment 14 is one piece of the Colorado Trail, the 486-mile long-distance footpath that runs from the mouth of Waterton Canyon southwest of Denver to the town of Durango in the San Juan Mountains. The trail was conceived in the 1970s and built over the next two decades by an…

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A wide grassland basin spreads below an aspen-fringed section of the Colorado Trail, a representative stretch of the long-distance route the segment belongs to.
Hopkins.m.s · Public domain
A simple wood footbridge crosses a small drainage on the Colorado Trail in the conifer shade typical of its mid-elevation tread.
Xnatedawgx · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ponderosa-clad hills along the Colorado Trail, the long-distance footpath that threads the spine of the state from Denver to Durango.
Jacob Montgomery · CC BY-SA 3.0
Open pine forest with distant ridges seen from the Colorado Trail, characteristic of the high country corridors the trail follows for most of its 486 miles.
Jacob Montgomery · CC BY-SA 3.0

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