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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Jun–Sep · highs 16–22 °C (61–72 °F)
- J-4°-13°60
- F-3°-12°64
- M1°-9°73
- A5°-6°86
- M10°-2°92
- J18°4°74
- J22°8°89
- A21°7°84
- S16°3°83
- O9°-3°84
- N0°-10°73
- D-5°-14°65
Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.
How we pick months
Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.
Trail facts
- Length
- 13 km · 8 mi (agency length field)
- Source
- USGS National Digital Trails (US public domain)
- Managed by
- US Forest Service
- Data from
- U.S. Forest Service
- Mountain
- Black Mountain (mountain, 3,240 m; GeoNames)
- Mountain range
- Central Park Range (Park Range › Southern Rocky Mountains; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 49 km NW of Walden (Jackson County, Colorado) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest
- Connects to
- Manzanares (at its start or end)
- Best months
- Jun–Sep
- Country
- United States of America
- Region
- Colorado
- Continent
- North America
- Route centre
- 40.9290, -106.7769
How it’s scored
Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.
Nearest trails
distance from the trail centreMain Fork
1.2 mi · 2.0 km · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest
HARE
2.6 mi · 4.2 km · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest
Trail Creek
2.9 mi · 4.7 km · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest
Beaver Creek
3.5 mi · 5.7 km · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest
Buffalo Ridge
4.2 mi · 6.8 km · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest
Manzanares
4.5 mi · 7.2 km · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest
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