Category: Colorado trails

Colorado Front Range Trail

Colorado Front Range Trail logo

Colorado Front Range Trail from Wyoming to New Mexico Most Colorado citizens are unaware that one of America’s premier trails is being proposed to run along the most densely populated portions of the state including Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Denver, Boulder, Longmont, Loveland and Fort Collins. The Colorado Front Range Trail would run all the way …

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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2015/01/31/colorado-front-range-trail/

Colorado Trail: Section 1

yellow flowers on trail

Hiking the Colorado Trail I completed most of section one of the Colorado Trail this summer. Due to some wilderness regulations and gnarly blisters, I’ll need to go back and tackle part of segment 4, but that’s already in the works. I highly recommend the Colorado Trail for you long-distance hikers out there. It’s absolutely …

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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2014/07/08/colorado-trail-section-1/

Volunteer Trail Work

rainbow on the plains of eastern colorado

Trail Work – It Does a Body Good Pawnee Buttes Trail was in need of some good trail volunteers to help connect the beautiful new trailhead to the existing trail. And who better for the job than those fearless folks from the Great Plains Trail Alliance? Beautiful Day on the Pawnee Grasslands Trail A group …

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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2013/04/03/volunteer-trail-work/

Winter Snowshoe Trails

Snowshoers pose for picture.

Trails are to Boulder, Colorado what beaches are to Honolulu, Hawaii. Ubiquitous, popular, and greatly enjoyed. But there is one major difference that can be summarized in one word: winter. In Hawaii, winter means a couple degrees cooler with water temperatures that are a bit less comfortable but still inviting. But in Colorado, winter means …

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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2011/12/10/winter-snowshoe-trails/

Poudre River Trail near Greeley, CO

As always, I started the day feeling rushed. A fall bike ride on the Poudre River Trail that runsbetween Windsor, Colorado & Greeley, CO I don’t have time for a trail ride.” I thought. But then, I did a little survey of the things I “had” to get done for the day. Other than a …

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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2010/10/30/poudre-river-trail-near-greeley-co/

Bitterbrush Trail on Hall Ranch Open Space

Northwest of Boulder, Colorado lies the Hall Ranch Open Space, part of the North Foothills Open Space complex. Both Hall Ranch and Heil Ranch are included in this system, and both areas have incredible mountain bike trails that are now connected by a bike trail. The Bitterbrush Trail and the Nelson Loop Trail are both …

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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2010/10/23/bitterbrush-trail-on-hall-ranch-open-space/