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A fun trail with good flow and nice scenery, despite massive logging.


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Map Key

2.6

Miles

4.2

KM

Singletrack

9,429' 2,874 m

High

9,299' 2,834 m

Low

202' 61 m

Up

157' 48 m

Down

3%

Avg Grade (2°)

11%

Max Grade (6°)

Dogs Unknown

E-Bikes Not Allowed

Description

Start off on a trail next to Keystone Ranch Rd for a few hundred feet, but then, due to logging operations, get back on that dirt road for a couple hundred yards until you see singletrack branch off to the left again. You are now on top of an aqueduct and you follow this for over a mile.

You snake through neighborhoods and open hillside, sometimes directly in the aqueduct (where it's not contained in pipe). Surprisingly fun!

After the neighborhood ends, leave the aqueduct and climb gently uphill through a massive logging operation. In summer 2013, there were MASSIVE piles of dead lodgepole pines waiting to be burned. Kind of sad, but due to the hills and big mountains in the distance, it's surprisingly scenic. And the trail flows very well, and is lots of fun.

Contacts

Shared By:

Nick Wilder with improvements by N G

Trail Ratings

  3.8 from 17 votes

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  3.8 from 17 votes
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Trail Rankings

#802

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Photos

Keystone Gulch path looking west over Keystone Ranch area.
Oct 7, 2016 near Keystone, CO
Some really nice fields of flowers at the end of Soda Creek loop, post card style
Jul 10, 2017 near Keystone, CO
View from the Soda Ridge Trail overlooking Keystone.
Jun 6, 2016 near Keystone, CO
Nice singletrack at Soda Ridge
Sep 9, 2018 near Keystone, CO
Panorama from Soda Ridge
Sep 9, 2018 near Keystone, CO
July and still snow up there
Jul 14, 2019 near Keystone, CO

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Jul 4, 2023
Seth Lippman
3.4mi
Nov 22, 2022
Peter Tiley
Sep 26, 2022
Tiffany Nguyen
you returned on Keystone Ranch Road 3mi — 0h 45m
Aug 10, 2022
Tiffany Nguyen
1.5 hr split with Soda Creek Trail
May 22, 2021
danny o
Jul 11, 2020
Jeff Verseman
Jun 25, 2020
Ken Garcia
Jun 1, 2020
Ken Garcia
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