Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge
Rocky Mountain Greenway Trail & Walnut Creek Loop
4 mi · ▲ 328 ft · 1 hr 30 min
Rocky Mountain Greenway Trail & Walnut Creek Loop is a 4-mile out-and-back in Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge near Rock Creek, CO. It climbs 328 ft and is mostly gravel. It scores 0/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
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Rocky Mountain Greenway Trail & Walnut Creek Loop
4 mi · ▲ 328 ft · 1 hr 30 min
Elevation 5,777–5,948 ft
Out & Back · Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge
Trailhead: 39.91108, -105.18401
Weather Sep 5: Overcast, high 90°F / low 65° · precip 9% · wind 9 mph · sunrise 6:33 AM · sunset 7:28 PM
Bikes allowed on the whole route · Toilets at the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start at the trailhead, heading SE.
- 0.2 miTurn right onto Walnut Creek Loop, heading NW.
- 0.5 miSharp right onto Rocky Mountain Greenway Trail, heading NE.
- 1.4 miReach Walnut Creek Loop, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 1.4 miSharp left onto Walnut Creek Loop, heading SW.
- 0.5 miArrive 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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- Bikes allowed on the whole route
- Toilets at the trailhead
- Parking lot at the trailhead
More from this trailhead
- Coalton Trail–Meadowlark Trail, 4 sights 12.2 mi · ▲ 807 ft
- Lower Church Lake–Old Rocky Mountain Greenway Trail, 5 sights 15.3 mi · ▲ 1,009 ft
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