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Button Rock Preserve

Sleepy Lion Trail via Night Hawk Trail

9.4 mi · ▲ 1,916 ft · 4 hr 5 min

Sleepy Lion Trail via Night Hawk Trail is a 9.4-mile out-and-back in Button Rock Preserve near Lyons, CO. It climbs 1,916 ft, with sections as steep as 17% grade. It scores 38/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: green fringe.

Elevation

0 mi5,565 – 6,723 ft · steepest grade: 17%9.9 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 40.20363, -105.29962
Nearest town Lyons, CO
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Sleepy Lion Trail via Night Hawk Trail

9.4 mi · ▲ 1,916 ft · 4 hr 5 min

Elevation 5,566–6,723 ft

Out & Back · Button Rock Preserve

Trailhead: 40.20363, -105.29962

Weather Sep 4: sunrise 6:33 AM · sunset 7:30 PM

No dogs on part of this route

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading SW.
  2. 0.7 miContinue straight onto Night Hawk Trail, heading W.
  3. 1.8 miTurn right, heading W.
  4. 0.5 miTurn left, heading N.
  5. 0.6 miTurn right, heading W.
  6. 0.8 miTurn left, heading NW.
  7. 0.3 miContinue straight onto Sleepy Lion Trail, heading SW.
  8. 500 ftReach Sleepy Lion Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  9. 0.4 miTurn right, heading NE.
  10. 0.8 miTurn left, heading SE.
  11. 0.6 miTurn right onto Night Hawk Trail, heading E.
  12. 150 ftSharp left, heading E.
  13. 0.6 miBear right, heading SE.
  14. 0.2 miBear left, heading N.
  15. 2.1 miArrive back at the trailhead.

Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.

Trail map, photos and weather for this hike: www.ambleway.com/hikes/sleepy-lion-trail-out-back-15-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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