Colorado Springs and Pikes Peak Region Trails

Colorado Springs, hiking, mountain biking, Pikes Peak | UltraRob | Sunday, October 21st, 2007 at 4:21 pm

Out There has launched a new trail resource for Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak Region. They’ve also included some trails from the surrounding area. We have more and better trails than even most people in Colorado realize.

They’ve taken the Happy Trails that have appeared on Fridays in the Out There section of the Gazette and made them searchable online. You can select by area or difficulty. According to their blog post you’re supposed to be able to select by specialty (biking, hiking with kids, cross country skiing, etc.) but I don’t see it as a choice. You can type those things in the trail search box and get matching trails. They have added topo maps and hope to eventually include GPS waypoints.

I believe one of the guys behind singletracks lives here although I’ve never met him. In any case there are a lot of the good local trails listed. It’s a mountain biking site but some of the information would be useful to hikers and runners.

Medicine Wheel has a few mountain biking trails online. They have a short description and include GPS file and maps made with TopoFusion.

MapMyRide and MapMyRun have GPS uploads of local trails too. The problem with most trails on MapMyRide and MapMyRun is they don’t really provide much information other than the GPS route.

Some other resources for hikes in the Pikes Peak region are Colorado Guy and LocalHikes. There’s also Trails.com. It’s a subscription site but you can sign up for a 2 week free trial.

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