Upper Wide Open

Total Miles
3.8

Elevation

3,230.40 ft

Duration

0.5 Hours

Technical Rating

3

Easy

Best Time

Summer, Fall

Trail Overview

The south end of Upper Wide Open starts along a fence and goes through a pinch point, then enters a forest of tall skinny lodgepole pine trees and the ground is full of downed skinny logs. It doubles back on big sweeping hairpin turns several times as it climbs up the mountainside. The trail is smooth and free of rocks, with banked corners, making it really easy. It keeps winding through the trees with big switchbacks. The trees really closely line the trail, so you have to be mindful not to get too close to the edge. It descends back down, with fewer switchbacks, so it's a little bit steeper on the descent. It goes around the hillside though, with great views of the valley below Tenderfoot Mountain. There's one spot with a couple more embedded roots and small rocks that are still super easy and you can ride right over them. The trail does some shelfy narrow side-hilling as it traverses around the mountain slopes, but it's still easy and not super exposed. The north end intersects with Tenderfoot Mountain Trail and continues until it intersects with Outer Wide Open and BB. This trail is open 6/21 - 10/9.

Photos of Upper Wide Open

Upper Wide Open
Upper Wide Open

Difficulty

This is an easy forested single track with lots of switchbacks that are easy and wide, and hardly any rock. This one is slightly harder than some of the other easy trails in the system because it is more narrow as it side-hills along the mountainsides.

Technical Rating

3

Status Reports

There are no status reports yet for this trail.

Access Description

The Tenderfoot Mountain Trail System is full of easy singletracks that are all very similar, fast and flowy. The main motorized trailhead is on County Landfill Road off of Highway 6. As the road turns into Frey Gulch Road there is a dirt parking lot. There's also a small parking lot near the north end of the Tenderfoot Mountain Trail off of County Road 51, but it's more of a parking lot for the hiking trails, so it will likely be busy and isn't good for trailers. The area is very well marked and maintained, with new trails still being constructed. It's a multi-use popular area, so you will see lots of hikers and mountain bikers. This area was built from your Colorado OHV dollars.

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