Favorite hikes in Colorado?

kateistoned
kateistoned Posts: 116
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What are your favorite hikes in Colorado? Anything you really love in the Denver-Metro area?

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  • kateistoned
    kateistoned Posts: 116
    Some of my favorites:

    Meyer Ranch Park
    Dear Creek Canyon & South Platte Valley
    Carson Nature Center/South Platte Area/Mary Carter Greenway

  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,832 Member
    I'm not sure about the Denver area, but enjoy the many areas to hike in the Springs! If you're ever up for a change and feel like getting out this way, I recommend Seven Bridges, Stratton Open Space, Bear Creek Canyon and St. Mary's Falls just to name a few. We hike at least one of these areas every Sunday Morning and enjoy the Beauty that our Lovely Pikes Peak area has to offer! These all have different levels of difficulty as some are very easy hikes and some more steep and difficult. The climb up Pikes Peak, Garden of the Gods and the Incline are very cool as well! Hope you get a chance to visit our area and enjoy all that Our Beautiful City has to offer! You can get info on these trails by accessing this website: http://www.cospringstrails.com/

    Happy Hiking!!! :grinning:
  • check1972
    check1972 Posts: 26 Member
    Roxborough State Park is my favorite. Never seen anything like it. Hanging Lake used to be great too, but now there are WAY too many people.
  • extraordinary_machine
    extraordinary_machine Posts: 3,028 Member
    Castlewood Canyon is so pretty!
  • mediamogulsteve
    mediamogulsteve Posts: 115 Member
    In so I can follow the thread.
  • jodynolte
    jodynolte Posts: 243 Member
    Also in Colorado Springs is Red Rock Canyon... incredibly beautiful hike!
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    edited October 2014
    Don't know any of the trail names, but when we were in Durango we hit all kinds of places around Lemon Lake. Scratch that, just looked and it is Lemon Reservoir near Vallecito Lake.
  • RestartingAgain1
    RestartingAgain1 Posts: 47
    I don't hike much, but hiking the Flatirons is so pretty!
  • farmgirlrrt
    farmgirlrrt Posts: 168 Member
    Saint Mary's Glacier is located about an hour west of Denver in Idaho Springs, CO. The hike is between easy-moderate but worth the view. Colorado Springs has some great hiking as well. If you want an intense hike then do Manitou Springs Incline. It's nearly a mile of stairs with a 46-68% incline. Grey Rock Trail another easy-moderate trail; located in Poudre Canyon is phenomenal. It's about 7.5 miles long.
  • hollyk57
    hollyk57 Posts: 520 Member
    FabulousFantasticFifty wrote: »
    I'm not sure about the Denver area, but enjoy the many areas to hike in the Springs! If you're ever up for a change and feel like getting out this way, I recommend Seven Bridges, Stratton Open Space, Bear Creek Canyon and St. Mary's Falls just to name a few. We hike at least one of these areas every Sunday Morning and enjoy the Beauty that our Lovely Pikes Peak area has to offer! These all have different levels of difficulty as some are very easy hikes and some more steep and difficult. The climb up Pikes Peak, Garden of the Gods and the Incline are very cool as well! Hope you get a chance to visit our area and enjoy all that Our Beautiful City has to offer! You can get info on these trails by accessing this website: http://www.cospringstrails.com/

    Happy Hiking!!! :grinning:

    Gotta agree with Colorado Springs - love it here! Red Rock Canyon, Palmer Park, Pulpit Rock, and the lesser-known trails out of Garden of the Gods, Ute Valley Park and the La Veta Open Space are all awesome. Also love the quiet trails at Fox Run Park (Black Forest), and the trails around Mt. Herman out of Monument. The trails at Dawson's Butte, outside of Larkspur, are also really nice.

    I used to live in the Denver area though and loved a lot of hikes there. Roxborough is awesome, but just a heads-up if you have dogs - they aren't allowed there. Castlewood Canyon (just south of Parker); Lair o' the Bear (on the way to Evergreen); the trails around Chatfield; The trail through Ken Caryl - the rocks are awesome; Deer Creek Canyon, etc.
  • Fitnin6280
    Fitnin6280 Posts: 618 Member
    I know you were wanting stuff in the Denver area, but in southern Colorado we have some beautiful trails in around Mt. Blanca and Zapata Falls. You hike right up to a water fall inside the mountain. Then you can go up and over the falls. It really is pretty if you are up for a drive down here...

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