Trail Overview

Gove Creek Road, just off Rampart Range Road in Pike National Forest, offers a secluded and serene camping experience with lighter summer traffic than its neighbors and stunning exposed granite formations. This trail provides vibrant wildflowers in summer and beautiful autumn aspens, perfect for those looking to escape civilization without traveling far from the Colorado Springs area. Gove Creek Road is a memorable destination, offering natural beauty and some challenges along the way.

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Difficulty

This trail features many high banks and washouts with a section requiring a full-width 4x4 to go near 30 degrees of tilt or risk going over a washout that's about 2 feet deep.

Technical Rating

Brian

Apr 26, 2026

Open

Great time, easily done in a 20ft full size truck. Some of the UTVs going through required one or the other to backup, but enjoyable ride. Not much a view at the top.

Mark Stanford

Jun 20, 2025

Open

Few people. Dry roads. No hard obstacles a stock 4x4 couldn’t drive.

C Westy

May 25, 2025

Open

Road has deteriorated compared to 5-7 years ago. Many of the culverts are either exposed or washed out. Full size truck compatible for now with pin stripes. Jeeps will make it without scratches. Hardest part of trail occurs after crossing a downed log that is partially buried and cross the length of the trail. Primary obstacles are off camber berms with potential high centering caused by high speed side by side use. This trail exists because it was a service access for a buried AT&T phone line that crossed the Mtn from Perry Park (DougCo) to Woodland Park (TellerCo)

Matt Washington

Jan 17, 2025

Open

Once you leave Fern heading East and continue onto Grove, the tracks change considerably. Very little is packed and we slipped around a lot. About 1-2miles down Grove we went head on into a snow drift area and got buried in pretty good. Took us 1.5 hours to dig ourselves out. We went from “hey, I think we can still manage this trail” to “oh shoot, why didn’t we turn back earlier”. I’d say avoid Grove altogether. Not worth it.