Heart Rock
Cappie’s Scoop: Coming soon! Don’t hesitate to add YOUR scoop in the comments below! Tips: There are two ways to reach the rock but we recommend you stay on the dirt trail that hugs the creek for a more scenic hike. Directions: Navigate to…
Viet Springs Trail
Cappie’s Scoop: Coming soon! Don’t hesitate to add YOUR scoop in the comments below! Tips: If you’re looking for the cabin and spring hut, once you get to the memorial, head to the left up the trail until you see a sign that says…
Blue Lakes
Cappie’s Scoop: Coming soon! Don’t hesitate to add YOUR scoop in the comments below! Tips: There are two trailheads, East Dallas Trailhead (closest town is Ridgway) and Yankee Boy Basin Trailhead near Telluride. We started at East Dallas. There are three lakes – Lower,…
East River Trail
Cappie’s Scoop: Coming soon! Don’t hesitate to add YOUR scoop in the comments below! Tips: The trail ends at a river crossing. Do not cross the river into private property. Turn around and hike back. Directions: From the town of Crested Butte, turn right…
Snodgrass Trail
Cappie’s Scoop: Coming soon! Don’t hesitate to add YOUR scoop in the comments below! Tips: If you have two cars, you can do this hike as a point-to-point or roundtrip from one of the two different trailheads. We started at the Gothic Road trailhead…
Bighorn Creek Trail
Cappie’s Scoop: Coming soon! Don’t hesitate to add YOUR scoop in the comments below! Tips: The parking lot next to the trail is very very small. If there are no spots available, you’ll need to park down the road a bit (towards the direction…
Stag Gulch Trail
Cappie’s Scoop: Coming soon! Don’t hesitate to add YOUR scoop in the comments below! Tips: The gem of this hidden hike is the huge fields and meadows of wildflowers, mostly the mule-ears, an iconic native sunflower. Directions: If you’re coming from Grand Junction (western…
Fiscalini Ranch Preserve
Cappie’s Scoop: This place is huge! I started hiking a trail along the water called the Bluff Trail. It was really nice. Lots of flowers and some cool wooden benches made out of big sticks. Then I hiked up a big hill and I…
Moonstone Beach Boardwalk
Cappie’s Scoop: Hikes along the beach are really nice but I wish I could go down to the beach and run into the water! This time I could only look at the beach from the boardwalk since no dogs are allowed on the beach….
Black Hill
Cappie’s Scoop: This trail started out very sandy and it felt like I was at the beach! There were lots of flowers to smell too. But then I walked under the trees and there was lots of poison oak around so mom held me…