Trails.com - Your Guide to the Outdoors
Your guide to the outdoors.

We’re making the world a little greener. Check out how. For full access, Log In or begin your 14-Day Free Trial. Learn more…

Best Easy Day Hikes: Boulder Guide Book

by Tracy Salcedo (Falcon Publishing)
Best Easy Day Hikes: Boulder

96pp/maps
ISBN: 1560449489

If hikers had a Mecca, Boulder would be it. Seated at the base of Colorado's Rocky Mountains, in the shadow of the world famous Flatirons, this outdoorsy town is host to an abundance of wonderful hiking trails. From the red-rock cliffs of Eldorado Canyon to the airy summit of Flagstaff Mountain, from the wide open prairie cradling East Boulder Creek to the sheltering woodlands of the Betasso Preserve, the variety and beauty of trails around Boulder are astounding. And everyone, whether local or just visiting, is invited to partake of the bounty. Best Easy Day Hikes Boulder describes 23 short, easy hikes in the area with clear, easy-to-read maps and concise written descriptions. The hikes will take you among the waving grasses of the high plains, to the base of the red rock sentinels of the Flatirons, and up to the best high points in the mountains west of town.

View all trails from this book!
Trails from the "Best Easy Day Hikes: Boulder" Guide Book
Displaying trails 1 to 20 of 23.
... Preview: In late spring and summer, you will hardly be able to see the big bluestem grass for which a portion of this loop is named because the wildflowers will be too thick. You will find penstemon, lupine, I ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Boulder"
Boulder, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 4.6 miles
... Preview: This scenic and popular path attracts nature lovers, hikers and runners with a passion for a workout, and couples walking hand-in-hand through spectacular wildflowers. The route winds through a beauti ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Boulder"
Boulder, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 1 miles
... Preview: When you think of Boulder, no doubt mountains spring to mind, but the fact of the matter is, the city lies mostly on the flats—flats that are every bit as beautiful as the highlands but in a very diff ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Boulder"
Boulder, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 2.8 miles
... Preview: If Grandma’s House were at trail’s end, this would be a fairy-tale “through the woods” experience. And nary a big bad wolf in sight… The Canyon Loop Trail weaves through the expansive Betasso Preserve ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Boulder"
Boulder, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 3.2 miles
... Preview: This relatively strenuous hike is broken up by some of the most interesting scenery in the Boulder area. There is the commonplace—colorful wildflowers, magnificent trees, vistas of the Indian Peaks to ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Boulder"
Boulder, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 4 miles
... Preview: The Enchanted Mesa and McClintock Nature Trails combine to make an easy, well-maintained loop (spiced with a few steep sections, both up and down) that meanders through a lovely woodland and features ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Boulder"
Boulder, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 2 miles
... Preview: The rolling meadowlands of Doudy Draw are a springtime delight. Purple penstemon and lupine, delicate white Sego lily, vivid yellow-flowering prickly pear, and scarlet Indian paintbrush appear in prof ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Boulder"
Boulder, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 6.8 miles
... Preview: Climbing into Gregory Canyon, you will be hard-pressed to remember you are on the edge of a major metropolitan area. The trail is wild and rugged from its outset, ascending west along a sun-dappled so ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Boulder"
Boulder, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 3 miles
... Preview: Rabbit Mountain whispers of the wild west. It is raw and scrubby and drenched in sunshine, inviting and aloof, plain and starkly beautiful. Once the winter refuge of Arapaho Indians, it now welcomes h ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Boulder"
Boulder, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 2 miles
... Preview: For nearly 80 years, beginning in the mid-1800s, Marshall Mesa was the site of a huge coal mining operation. Walking through the peaceful prairie that thrives on the mesa today, such activity is diffi ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Boulder"
Boulder, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 2 miles
... Preview: To have homesteaded in this rugged high-country valley would have taken more energy and dedication than most hikers traveling the Meyers Homestead Trail today could ever muster. But the broad, green m ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Boulder"
Boulder, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 5 miles
... Preview: Undoubtedly one of the longest and most strenuous hikes in this book, Mount Sanitas is also one of the most rewarding. The trail to the top of the rolling peak is challenging; the rocky, sparsely fore ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Boulder"
Boulder, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 3.1 miles
... Preview: If male pattern baldness could strike a peak, Bald Mountain would be a textbook case. The ponderosa forest that circles its base is like the fringe of hair that often circles a shiny pate; the few tre ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Boulder"
Boulder, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 1.25 miles
... Preview: On a spectacular rock promontory, slowly succumbing to the forces of wind, snow, and sun, the brick skeleton of an oven overlooks the red rock walls of Eldorado Canyon. The oven, once mediocre amidst ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Boulder"
Boulder, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 2.8 miles
... Preview: You are going to have to work (and sweat) to get there, but you can savor the views (and alleviate the pain) on the smooth sun-drenched rocks beneath the Royal Arch. This towering red rock structure i ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Boulder"
Boulder, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 3 miles
... Preview: Gurgling and sparkling, with its bower of stately cottonwoods and lush border of wildflowers and shrubbery, South Boulder Creek is the soul of this hike. Interpretive signs along the first half of the ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Boulder"
Boulder, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 2.6 miles
... Preview: The top of Sugarloaf Mountain is painfully but exhilaratingly exposed—a jumbled hump of wind-whipped talus that drops away precipitously on all sides. The views will leave you awestruck. The jagged su ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Boulder"
Boulder, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 2 miles
... Preview: This gentle loop captures the best of Colorado’s foothills in a single sweep. From tumbling nourishment provided to the prairie by South Boulder Creek, to the rustic shelter of the historic Doudy-Deba ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Boulder"
Boulder, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 1.9 miles
... Preview: This easy, well-maintained path, which circles the summit of Flagstaff Mountain, one of Boulder’s landmarks, offers a look at the complex urban and wildland interface. From the east side of Flagstaff ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Boulder"
Boulder, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 1 miles
... Preview: In a world where it often seems that nature is losing out to development, the Walden Wildlife Habitat and Sawhill Ponds are a refreshing confirmation that sometimes the opposite is the case. Not only ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Boulder"
Boulder, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 2.75 miles

Search Trails.com




miles
Advanced Search

Related Regions