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The Deer Creek valley is an open willow-filled meadow surrounded by lodge pole pines and the barren rock face of Glacier Mountain along the western slope. From the base at 10,500 feet, the trail rises to about 12,200 feet at the junction with the Radical Hill Jeep Trail to the east and the Middle Fork Road to the Swan River heading west.
The Western Slope is a colloquial term generally understood to describe the part of the state of Colorado west of the Continental Divide. [1] Bodies of water west of the Divide flow toward the Pacific Ocean; water that falls and flows east of the Divide heads east toward the Gulf of Mexico. [2]
The Switzerland Trail remains a well known hiking, OHV, motorcycle, 4x4, and biking trail [1] because the smooth grade and 2%-5% slope of the railway make an easy traverse, while the narrowness of the railbed (typically 8–10 ft (2.4–3.0 m) wide) brings users close to the spectacular terrain.
The Wheelbarrow Gulch Road (Forest Road 746.1A) leads onto the western slope of Matchless Mountain. A hike to the summit can begin where the road ends at an elevation of (11,000 feet (3,353 m). The summit is a 1-mile (1.6 km), class-2 hike southeast through subalpine forest, meadow, and alpine tundra. The elevation gain is (1,400 feet (427 m)).
3.5 mile (5.6 km) hike on Grays Peak Trail Grays Peak is the tenth-highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the U.S. state of Colorado . The prominent 14,276-foot (4351.18 m) fourteener is the highest summit of the Front Range and the highest point on the Continental Divide and the Continental Divide Trail in North America.
This is a list of some important mountain passes in the Rocky Mountains of the U.S. State of Colorado. Mountain passes and highway summits traversed by improved roads
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