Willow Run Pond & Metzger Ponds via Big Dry Creek Trail
4 mi · ▲ 55 ft · 1 hr 22 min
Willow Run Pond & Metzger Ponds via Big Dry Creek Trail is a 4-mile out-and-back in Big Dry Creek Open Space near Brandywine, CO. The route passes Metzger Ponds before reaching Willow Run Pond at the turnaround, 1.8 miles in. It is mostly level, with 55 ft of elevation gain, and mostly paved. It scores 0/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
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Willow Run Pond & Metzger Ponds via Big Dry Creek Trail
4 mi · ▲ 55 ft · 1 hr 22 min
Elevation 5,192–5,257 ft
Out & Back · Big Dry Creek Open Space
Trailhead: 39.91439, -105.03971
Weather Sep 5: sunrise 6:32 AM · sunset 7:29 PM
Transit-accessible: 120th Ave / Perry St (W) stop 22 m from the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start at the trailhead, heading W.
- 0.1 miTurn left, heading S.
- 0.4 miTurn right, heading NE.
- 0.3 miPass Metzger Ponds.
- 150 ftTurn left onto Big Dry Creek Trail, heading E.
- 0.9 miTurn left, heading E.
- 250 ftTurn right, heading E.
- 100 ftTurn left, heading E.
- 250 ftPass Willow Run Pond.
- 0.2 miReach Willow Run Pond, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.3 miTurn right, heading S.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading S.
- 0.1 miBear right, heading SE.
- 0.8 miTurn right, heading SW.
- 0.3 miTurn left, heading W.
- 0.4 miTurn right, heading W.
- 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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Good to know
- Transit-accessible: 120th Ave / Perry St (W) stop 22 m from the trailhead
- Parking lot at the trailhead
More from this trailhead
- Brunner Reservoir–Country Vista Park, 4 sights 3.8 mi · ▲ 55 ft
- Metzger Ponds & Home Farm Trail via Big Dry Creek Trail 4.7 mi · ▲ 109 ft
- Bull Reservoir & Metzger Ponds via Big Dry Creek Trail 4.7 mi · ▲ 53 ft
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