Grand Junction Hiking Guide

Steve is an experienced Colorado Outward Bound instructor and mountain guide. A well-traveled schoolteacher, Steve has taught students in remote regions of the Navajo Indian Reservation as well as along the Mexican border in Southern Arizona. Presently, Steve works as a special education teacher in Grand Junction where he instructs alternative middle school students.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSPreface viiiAbout the Authors ixIntroduction xiHow To Use This Guide xivBangs Canyon Area 3Lower Bangs Canyon 4Mica Mine Trail 5Rough Canyon 7Ribbon Trail 8Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness Area 11Devils Canyon 12Flume Canyon 14Jones Canyon Overlook 15Knowles Canyon (Lower Access) 17Mee Canyon (Lower Access) 19Pollack Canyon/Pollack Bench Loop 22Rattlesnake Arches 24Book Cliffs & Little Bookcliffs 27Cottonwood Canyon 29Demaree Canyon 31Hunter Canyon 33Hoodoo/Spring Creek Trail Loop 36Spring Creek Canyon to Falls 39Main Canyon 40Mt. Garfield Trail 42Stagecoach Trail 44Tellerico Loop Trail (To Top of the Book Cliffs) 44North Soda Trail 47Colorado National Monument 49Alcove Nature Trail 50Black Ridge Trail 53Devils Kitchen 54No Thoroughfare Canyon 55Gold Star Canyon 58Kodels Canyon 60Liberty Cap 62Upper Liberty Cap to Otto’s Bathtub 63Monument Canyon 64Red Canyon 66Old Gordon Trail 68Echo Canyon 70Serpents Trail 71Otto’s Trail 72Ute Canyon 73City Trails & State Parks 77Highline Lake State Park Loop Trail 78Vega State Park Nature Trail 80Corn Lake Trail 81Palisade Trail 82Redlands Loop (Audobon Trail, Connected Lakes Trail & Blue Heron Trail) 83Watson Island/Old Mill Bridge Trails 85Grand Mesa 87Coal Creek Basin & Switchbacks Trail 88Coal Creek Trail 89Deep Creek/Farmers Trail 90Indian Point Trail 91Spring Camp Trail to Blue Lake 93Kannah Creek Trail 94Rapid Creek Trail 96Cottonwood Trail 98Crag Crest 99Lake of the Woods Trail 100Mesa Lakes to Lost Lake 102Rabbit Valley 103McDonald Creek Canyon Trail 104Rabbit’s Ear Trail 106Rabbit Valley BLM Trail Through Time 108Uncompahgre Plateau & Basin 109Lower Big Dominguez Canyon 110Upper Big Dominguez Canyon 113McCarty Trail 114Little Creek/Corral Fork Loop 116Ute Creek Trail 118Unaweep Trail 119Upper Bench Trail 121Roubideau Canyon 123Wildcat Trail 125Unaweep Canyon Access Fund Trail 128Other Trails 131Spanish Trail/Gunnison River Bluffs Area 131Riggs Hill 133Dinosaur Hill 134Bibliography 137Index 139