Welcome to the Colorado backcountry

The vast acreage of wilderness and backcountry beauty in Colorado make it one of the more popular locations for camping, backpacking, and day-hiking.

In addition to a eight National Parks and Monuments, Colorado boasts an equal number of Wilderness Areas, millions of acres of National Forest and BLM land, and over three dozen state parks.

From mountains to deserts, and grasslands to canyons, one could spend a lifetime hiking the trails of Colorado and not cover all of them.

Yule Creek Valley after the season's first winter storm


The Yule Creek trail starts a couple miles south of Marble, Colorado, at 9,000 feet.  This overlook, above Thompson Flats, is almost exactly 10,000 feet above sea level, and offers an incredible view of the hanging valley and bordering peaks of the Raggeds Wilderness area.