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Button Rock Preserve

Cook Mountain–Ralph Price Reservoir, 8 sights

11.9 mi · ▲ 2,253 ft · 5 hr 6 min

Cook Mountain–Ralph Price Reservoir, 8 sights is an 11.9-mile out-and-back in Button Rock Preserve near Pinewood Springs, CO. The route passes Ralph Price Reservoir before reaching Cook Mountain at the turnaround, 6 miles in. It climbs 2,253 ft, with sections as steep as 24% grade. It scores 82/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.

Elevation

0 mi6,103 – 7,527 ft · steepest grade: 24%12.3 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Sleepy Lion Trail 40.22291, -105.35155
Nearest town Pinewood Springs, CO
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Cook Mountain–Ralph Price Reservoir, 8 sights

11.9 mi · ▲ 2,253 ft · 5 hr 6 min

Elevation 6,102–7,527 ft

Out & Back · Button Rock Preserve

Trailhead: Sleepy Lion Trail · 40.22291, -105.35155

Weather Sep 5: sunrise 6:33 AM · sunset 7:30 PM

No dogs on part of this route

  1. Start on Sleepy Lion Trail, heading S.
  2. 1 miContinue straight onto Button Rock Trail, heading S.
  3. 50 ftContinue straight onto Sleepy Lion Trail, heading S.
  4. 0.5 miContinue straight onto Professors' Ranch Trail, heading SW.
  5. 0.3 miPass Ralph Price Reservoir.
  6. 200 ftBear right onto South Shore Trail, heading N.
  7. 0.2 miTurn left, heading NW.
  8. 0.2 miTurn left, heading N.
  9. 250 ftTurn left onto North Shore Trail, heading NE.
  10. 1.6 miTurn right onto Button Rock Road, heading W.
  11. 0.3 miTurn left, heading NW.
  12. 0.9 miTurn left onto Cook Mountain Summit (unmaintained), heading W.
  13. 0.8 miReach Cook Mountain, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  14. 0.8 miTurn right onto Button Rock Road, heading N.
  15. 1.2 miTurn left onto North Shore Trail, heading S.
  16. 1.6 miTurn right, heading SE.
  17. 250 ftTurn right, heading SE.
  18. 0.2 miTurn right, heading SE.
  19. 0.2 miBear left onto Professors' Ranch Trail, heading S.
  20. 0.4 miContinue straight onto Sleepy Lion Trail, heading SE.
  21. 0.5 miContinue straight onto Button Rock Trail, heading NE.
  22. 50 ftContinue straight onto Sleepy Lion Trail, heading E.
  23. 0.9 miArrive back at the trailhead.

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Trail map, photos and weather for this hike: www.ambleway.com/hikes/cook-mountain-ralph-price-reservoir-out-back-4-sights-13-km

Trail surface

37% dirt63% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:33 AMSunset 7:30 PM

Good to know

  • No dogs on part of this route

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