Toll Gate Creek Trail & Tollgate Creek Trail
5 mi · ▲ 56 ft · 1 hr 42 min
Toll Gate Creek Trail & Tollgate Creek Trail is a 5-mile out-and-back in Sand Creek Park near Boston Heights, CO. It is mostly level, with 56 ft of elevation gain, and mostly paved. It scores 0/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
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Toll Gate Creek Trail & Tollgate Creek Trail
5 mi · ▲ 56 ft · 1 hr 42 min
Elevation 5,296–5,376 ft
Out & Back · Sand Creek Park
Trailhead: 39.76006, -104.85194
Weather Sep 4: Partly cloudy, high 93°F / low 61° · precip 10% · wind 5 mph · sunrise 6:31 AM · sunset 7:28 PM
Transit-accessible: stop 433 m from the trailhead
- Start at the trailhead, heading SW.
- 0.1 miSharp left, heading SE.
- 0.5 miTurn right, heading SE.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Sand Creek Regional Greenway, heading SW.
- 150 ftTurn left, heading SW.
- 450 ftBear left, heading E.
- 100 ftSharp left, heading E.
- 100 ftTurn right, heading E.
- 0.1 miBear right, heading NE.
- 450 ftTurn right, heading SE.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading SE.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Tollgate Creek Trail, heading SE.
- 0.7 miContinue straight onto Toll Gate Creek Trail, heading SE.
- 0.8 miReach Tollgate Creek Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.8 miContinue straight onto Tollgate Creek Trail, heading N.
- 0.7 miTurn left, heading NW.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading NW.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading NW.
- 450 ftBear left, heading NW.
- 0.1 miTurn left, heading W.
- 150 ftSharp right, heading W.
- 100 ftBear right, heading W.
- 450 ftTurn right onto Sand Creek Regional Greenway, heading W.
- 150 ftTurn left, heading S.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading S.
- 0.5 miSharp 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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Sunset
The best sunset spot on this hike is 1.3 mi in (~32 min). Leave by 6:36 PM for the 7:28 PM sunset. Back at your car by 8:13 PM, after dark — bring a headlamp.
Good to know
- Transit-accessible: stop 433 m from the trailhead
More from this trailhead
- Sand Creek Regional Greenway 2.1 mi · ▲ 26 ft
- Sand Creek Regional Greenway 2.1 mi · ▲ 26 ft
- Toll Gate Creek Trail & Tollgate Creek Trail 5.8 mi · ▲ 82 ft
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