Long View Trail & Mason Trail via Fossil Creek Trail
5.8 mi · ▲ 236 ft · 2 hr 3 min
Long View Trail & Mason Trail via Fossil Creek Trail is a 5.8-mile out-and-back in Redtail Grove Natural Area near McClellands, CO. It is mostly level, with 236 ft of elevation gain, and mostly paved. It scores 0/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
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Long View Trail & Mason Trail via Fossil Creek Trail
5.8 mi · ▲ 236 ft · 2 hr 3 min
Elevation 4,946–5,065 ft
Out & Back · Redtail Grove Natural Area
Trailhead: 40.52174, -105.08031
Weather Sep 5: Overcast, high 95°F / low 63° · precip 6% · wind 6 mph · sunrise 6:31 AM · sunset 7:29 PM
Transit-accessible: Harmony & Mason stop 191 m from the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start at the trailhead, heading S.
- 50 ftTurn left onto Mason Trail, heading S.
- 0.8 miTurn right onto Fossil Creek Trail, heading SW.
- 1.2 miTurn left onto Long View Trail, heading W.
- 1.1 miReach Mason Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 1.1 miTurn right onto Fossil Creek Trail, heading N.
- 0.8 miBear left, heading NE.
- 0.5 miTurn left onto Mason Trail, heading N.
- 0.8 miTurn right, heading N.
- 50 ftArrive back at the trailhead.
Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.
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- Transit-accessible: Harmony & Mason stop 191 m from the trailhead
- Parking lot at the trailhead
More from this trailhead
- Dixon Reservoir Beach–Fossil Creek Trail, 4 sights 11.8 mi · ▲ 401 ft
- Mason Trail & Spring Creek Trail via Fossil Creek Trail 12 mi · ▲ 404 ft
- Dixon Reservoir–Dixon Reservoir Beach, 5 sights 15.6 mi · ▲ 582 ft
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