Now with a fresh design, this fifth edition of the bestselling authoritative guide for hikers in Southwestern Colorado features new and updated trails, clear maps, and beautiful color photographs. Used by beginner and seasoned hikers alike for years now, Hiking Trails of Southwestern Colorado shares the best nature-walking

Preface to the Fifth Edition Introduction General Information Technology HIKES IN AND NEAR DURANGO City Trails Hogsback Perins Peak Dry Gulch to Durango Barnroof Point Colorado Trail: Junction to Gudy's Dry Fork-Hoffheins Loop Animas City Mountain Log Chutes Raider Ridge Meadow Loop-Telegraph Trail Carbon Junction Trail Sale Barn-Cowboy Loop Skyline LA PLATA MOUNTAIN CLIMBS Sliderock Trail to Kennebec Pass Tomahawk Basin-Diorite Peak Centennial Peak and Sharkstooth Hesperus Mountain Transfer Trail Madden and Parrott Peaks Gibbs Peak Silver Mountain HIKES UP AND ON MISSIONARY RIDGE Haflin Creek Stevens Creek Mountain View Crest Red Creek-First Fork Shearer Creek Burnt Timber HIKES BETWEEN DURANGO AND SILVERTON Hermosa Creek Jones Creek Goulding Creek Chris Park Forebay Lake Elbert Creek-Castle Rock Purgatory Flats Cascade Creek Potato (Spud) Lake Potato Hill (Spud Mountain) Engineer Mountain Grizzly Peak Grayrock Peak Hermosa Peak Jura Knob (Coal Creek-Deer Creek) Crater Lake-North Twilight Snowdon Peak Molas Trail Sultain-Grand Turk Colorado Trail-Molas Pass HIKES OUT OF SILVERTON Hope Lake Ice Lakes US Grant Peak Columbine Trail Kendall Mountain Whitehead Peak Silver Lake Hematite Basin Highland Mary Lakes Continental Divide VALLECITO AREA HIKES Lake Eileen Vallecito Creek Cave Basin Pine River THE AREA FOURTEENERS Mount Sneffels Handies Peak Redcloud and Sunshine Peaks Uncompahgre Peak Wetterhorn Peak Ethics Resources Index About the Authors

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