Best hikes near Colorado Springs
By: Stewart M. Green
Contributors: American Hiking Society
Series: A Falcon guide; Falcon guide
Publisher: FalconGuides
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780762780778
Subjects: Trails; Guidebooks; Hiking
Description: It's not necessary to travel far from home for a great hike. With forty of the area's best hikes, all of them within an hour's drive of Colorado Springs, and these information packed guides in hand, readers have everything they need for the adventure they seek, from an easy nature walk to a multiday backpack. Each hike includes everything about the trail: color photos, brief route description, directions to the trailhead (including GPS coordinates), length, hiking time, level of difficulty, fees and permits, and canine compatibility.
Notes: "American Hiking Society"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (page 251).
Table of contents: title: The prairie: Homestead Ranch Regional Park Trail; title: Calhan Paint Mines Trail; title: Bluestem Prairie Open Space Trail; title: The foothills: Palmer Trail to Susan G. Bretag Trail loop; title: Ute Trail and Chambers Trail loop; title: Perkins Central Garden Trail; title: Red Rocks Canyon Trail; title: Contemplative, Roundup, and Red Rock Canyon trails loop; title: Coyote Run Trail; title: Blackmer Loop Trail; title: Aiken Canyon Trail; title: Ute Valley Park loop; title: Templeton Trail; title: Edna Mae Bennett Nature Trail; title: Pulpit Rock Trail; title: Spruce Mountain Trail; title: Inner Canyon-Lake Gulch Loop Trail; title: Canyon View Nature Trail; title: The mountains: Mount Cutler Trail; title: Columbine Trail; title: St. Mary's Falls Trail; title: Gray Back Peak Trail; title: Emerald Valley Pipeline Trail; title: Beaver Creek Loop Trail; title: Red Mountail Trail; title: Mount Manitou Incline Trail; title: Heizer Trail; title: Catamount Trail; title: Raspberry Mountain Trail; title: Crags Trail; title: Devils Playground Trail; title: Pancake Rocks and Horsethief Falls trails; title: Mueller State Park Loop; title: Vindicator Valley Trail; title: Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument trails; title: Twin Rocks Trail; title: Goose Creek Trail; title: Blodgett Peak Trail; title: Mount Herman Trail; title: Palmer Reservoirs Loop with Cap Rock option.