Near Cold Boiling Lake Trail
Cold Boiling Lake is a small lake at the end of Cold Boiling Lake Trail. Cold gases gently percolate up out of the lake.
Near Cold Boiling Lake Trail
Cold gases rising from the bottom of Cold Boiling Lake (white dots across the top of the picture) are trapped under a thin layer of ice covering the lake on a cold Novemeber day.
Near Cold Boiling Lake Trail
Reading Peak is seen through the trees catching the last rays of sun on a November afternoon, to the northeast, along Cold Boiling Lake Trail.

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Cold Boiling Lake Trail

3.0 (6 Ratings)
A wide, popular trail through the firs to a small pond with cold gases gently rising from its bottom.
0.7
mi
Distance
65
ft
Gain
moderate
Difficulty
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Route Details

Flatter
Steeper
0.71mi
Distance
65ft
Elevation Gain
21ft
Elevation Loss
10%
Max Grade
7,449ft
High Point
7,374ft
Low Point
Path Type
Point to Point
Description
Cold Boiling Lake Trail is basically a wide, flat trail. Starting out in a thinly forested area, the trail passes through fir forested areas, and areas with fewer, wider spaced firs. There is very little undergrowth. At the 0.5-mile mark, in the thin fir forest, Cold Boiling Lake Trail passes Twin Meadows Trail to the left (south). Cold Boiling Lake Trail then continues through forest for a short ways, to emerge at a meadow and Cold Boiling Lake. Here, Cold Boiling Lake Trail passes Bumpass Hell Trail and Crumbaugh Lake Trail, as it makes its way to the lake's shoreline and ends.

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Contributors
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