Rocky Mountain National Park [Colorado]

by United States. Department of the Interior

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TRIPS FROM GRAND LAKE

Trips	Elevation Feet	Miles One Way	Days Round Trip	Remarks
1. Cascade Falls.	9,000	4	½	4 miles by horse or on foot.
2. Flattop shelter cabin.	10,500	10	1	10 miles by horse or on foot.
3. Lake Nanita.	10,750	10	1	10 miles by horse or on foot.
Lake Nokoni.	10,850	11	1	10 miles by horse or on foot.
4. Bench Lake.	10,923	12	1	10 miles by horse; 2 on foot.
5. Flattop Mountain.	12,300	12	1	12 miles by horse or on foot.
6. Adams Falls.	9,000	2	½	2 miles by horse or on foot.
7. Shadow Mountain.	10,100	3	½	3 miles by horse or on foot.
8. Lake Verna.	10,150	8	1	8 miles by horse or on foot.
9. Hell Canyon Pass.	11,400	13	2	8 miles by horse; 5 on foot.
10. Colorado River trail.	8,500	5	½	5 miles by horse or on foot.
11. North Fork Road.	9,038	13	1	13 miles by horse, on foot, or by auto.
12. Phantom Valley Ranch.	9,000	13	1	13 miles by horse, on foot, or by auto.
13. Milner Pass.	10,759	18	1	18 miles by horse, on foot, or by auto.
14. Tonahutu Creek, Big Meadows.	9,385	5	½	5 miles by horse or on foot.
15. Columbine Lake.	8,600	3	½	3 miles by horse, on foot, or by auto.
16. Fall River Road to Continental Divide and Fall River Pass.	11,797	22	½	22 miles by horse, on foot, or by auto.
17. Estes Park.	7,547	47	1	47 miles by horse or auto.

Other Trips In Rocky Mountain National Park

[Guide recommended on all these trips]

Trips	Starting point
1. Chasm Lake—Longs Peak.	Longs Peak post office.
2. Glacier Gorge—Lakes Mills, Black, Blue, and Shelf.	Glacier Basin.
3. Glass Lake—Sky Pond—Taylor Glacier.	Glacier Basin.
4. Loch Vale—Andrews Glacier—Otis Peak—Otis Gorge—Lake Haiyaha—Nymph Lake—Bear Lake.	Glacier Basin.
5. Nymph Lake—Dream Lake—Emerald Lake—Tyndall Gorge—Tyndall Glacier—Flattop Mountain.	Bear Lake.
6. Fern Lake—Odessa Lake—Flattop Mountain—Tyndall Glacier—Hallett Peak—Continental Divide—Tourmaline Gorge.	Fern Lake.
7. Spruce Lake—Spruce Canyon—Hourglass and Rainbow Lakes—Sprague Glacier—Continental Divide—Tourmaline Lake and Gorge—Odessa and Fern Lakes.	Fern Lake.
8. The Pool—Forest Canyon.	The Pool.
9. Wild Basin.	Copeland Lake.
10. Top of road on Continental Divide—Mount Ida—Gorge Lakes—Forest Canyon—The Pool.	Estes Park.
11. Fall River Road—Chapin Pass—Mounts Chiquita, Ypsilon, and Chapin—Bill Currence's trail.	Estes Park.
12. Fall River Pass—Cache la Poudre River—Down to mouth of Hague Creek—Up to Chapin Creek to Chapin Pass—Fall River Road.	Estes Park.
13. Horseshoe Park—Lawn Lake—"The Saddle"—Cascade Creek—Mouth of Hague Creek back as trip no. 12.	Horseshoe Park.
14. Fall River Road to Chapin Pass—Chapin Creek and Cache la Poudre to mouth of Hague Creek—Boundary of park to La Poudre Pass—Headwaters of Colorado River—Phantom Valley Ranch.	Estes Park.
15. Trail Ridge—Continental Divide—Phantom Valle Ranch.	Estes Park.
16. Phantom Valley Ranch—Headwaters of Colorado River—Thunder Pass and Thunder Mountain.	Phantom Valley Ranch.
17. Mount Richthofen.	Phantom Valley Ranch.
18. Specimen Mountain.	Phantom Valley Ranch.
19. Eight or more good climbs in the Never Summer Range.	Phantom Valley Ranch.
20. Flattop Mountain—Tyndall Glacier—Andrews Glacier—Flattop shelter cabin—Lakes Nanita and Nokoni.	Estes Park.
21. North Inlet to source—Mount Alice—Wild Basin.	Flattop shelter cabin.
22. Grand Lake via Phantom Valley Ranch.	Estes Park.
23. Grand Lake via Flattop.	Estes Park.

THE PARK'S MOUNTAIN PEAKS

Peaks In The Grand Lake Basin

	Altitude in feet		Altitude in feet
Snowdrift Peak	12,280	Mount Cairns	10,800
Nakai Peak	12,221	Mount Westcott	10,400
Mount Patterson	11,400	Shadow Mountain	10,100
Nisa Mountain	10,791	Mount Bryant	11,000
Mount Enentah	10,737	Mount Acoma	10,500

Peaks In The Never Summer Range (Continental Divide), North To South