Huston Park Continental Divide Trail
Posted: April 1st, 2009 | Author: Roger Ludwig | Filed under: Wyoming | Tags: Continental Divide Trail, Encampment River, Hiking, Huston Park Wilderness Area, Long Park, Medicine Bow National Forest, Sierra Madre Mountains, Southeast Wyoming | No Comments »
Highlights: This hike is a resplendent walk along the Continental Divide Trail where it weaves together a succession of verdant meadows, each a vast, rich, colorful carpet of wildflowers rimmed with pines, rising and falling along the gentle crest of the southern Sierra Madre Mountain range.
Location: West of Encampment, Wyoming in the Huston Park Wilderness area of the Medicine Bow National Forest.
Elevations: Red Mountain Trailhead, 10,067′; high point, 10,500′, Pipeline Trailhead, 9, 190′/
Distance: Entire trail through Huston Park Wilderness is 13.5 miles one way. The hike is out and back as far as you wish to go.
Maps: Forest Service brochures “Medicine Bow National Forest Continental Divide National Scenic Trail” and “Huston Park Encampment River Wilderness Trail Map”, Medicine Bow National Forest Map, USGS quads Red Mountain, Solomon Creek
Guide:Marc Smith’s Hiking Wyoming’s Medicine Bow National Forest – Third Edition
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