Coffintop Mountain–Ralph Price Reservoir, 8 sights
15.3 mi · ▲ 3,794 ft · 7 hr
Coffintop Mountain–Ralph Price Reservoir, 8 sights is a 15.3-mile out-and-back in Button Rock Preserve near Big Elk Meadows, CO. The route passes Ralph Price Reservoir before reaching Coffintop Mountain at the turnaround, 7.6 miles in. It climbs 3,794 ft, with sections as steep as 32% grade. It scores 80/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.
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Coffintop Mountain–Ralph Price Reservoir, 8 sights
15.3 mi · ▲ 3,794 ft · 7 hr
Elevation 6,382–7,998 ft
Out & Back · Button Rock Preserve
Trailhead: Button Rock B Road · 40.25001, -105.41069
Weather Sep 4: Drizzle, high 83°F / low 58° · precip 13% · wind 19 mph · sunrise 6:33 AM · sunset 7:30 PM
No dogs on part of this route · Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start on Button Rock B Road, heading E.
- 100 ftTurn left, heading E.
- 0.2 miTurn left, heading SE.
- 400 ftContinue straight onto Rattlesnake Ridge Road, heading S.
- 0.5 miBear right onto Rattlesnake Gulch, heading SE.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading S.
- 0.7 miTurn right, heading SE.
- 0.3 miBear right onto Button Rock Road, heading S.
- 0.9 miTurn left onto North Shore Trail, heading SE.
- 50 ftPass Ralph Price Reservoir.
- 1.6 miTurn right, heading S.
- 250 ftTurn right, heading SE.
- 0.2 miTurn right, heading SE.
- 0.2 miBear left onto Professors' Ranch Trail, heading S.
- 0.4 miContinue straight onto Sleepy Lion Trail, heading S.
- 0.5 miContinue straight onto Button Rock Trail, heading SE.
- 0.2 miBear right, heading N.
- 1.7 miReach Coffintop Mountain, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 1.9 miContinue straight onto Sleepy Lion Trail, heading NE.
- 0.5 miContinue straight onto Professors' Ranch Trail, heading SW.
- 0.4 miBear right onto South Shore Trail, heading N.
- 0.2 miTurn left, heading NE.
- 0.2 miTurn left, heading NW.
- 250 ftTurn left onto North Shore Trail, heading NW.
- 1.6 miTurn right onto Button Rock Road, heading SW.
- 0.9 miBear left, heading NW.
- 0.3 miTurn left onto Rattlesnake Gulch, heading N.
- 0.8 miBear left, heading NW.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Rattlesnake Gulch (unmaintained), heading NW.
- 0.5 miContinue straight onto Button Rock B Road, heading NW.
- 350 ftSharp left, heading N.
- 0.2 miArrive back at the trailhead.
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Good to know
- No dogs on part of this route
- Parking lot at the trailhead
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