Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · Colorado, Wyoming

Albany Trail

20 mi of trail, end to end · native material surface · trail No. 5001 · trail class 1 · typical grade 8-10% · tread 18-24 inches wide · hiking, bike, motorcycle, e-bike · motorized use allowed

Begins at the forest's mile 0, 41.1865, -106.1641 - no trailhead mapped Drive to where the trail begins

Albany Trailhead and Winter Parking the Forest Service's write-up

$5/day/vehicle

Parking lot used primarily for snowmobile parking in the winter and ORV riding in the summer. It is located across the street from Albany Lodge in the Snowy Range and is managed by the Laramie Ranger District.

The lot is hard-packed gravel and is regularly plowed by the Albany Lodge. There is a vault restroom. The lot offers access to the Q-snowmobile trail, which is the main snowmobiling trail on the Snowy Range. Q-Trail connects all of the main trails in the area, and ends at the Ryan Park Parking Area.

In the summer this lot offers access to the Albany ATV trail, which is a single track trail dirt bike trail. There are also many dirt roads in the area that people use for larger ORV riding, i.e. razors and four-wheelers. No overnight camping in the lot, but you can dispersed camp in the area.

This trailhead on fs.usda.gov

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About this trail's facts

The lines are the US Forest Service's National Forest System trails layer (public domain), read 2026-10-16 and simplified for the map; the length is the line's, end to end, and the class, surface, grade and tread width are the forest's own entries where it publishes them - a forest that publishes the centreline alone has none. The trailheads and the points along the way are the Service's recreation points, and the write-ups its own recarea text, unedited. Heights come from USGS 3DEP through Terrain Tiles on AWS (Mapzen/Tilezen), read along each line and rounded; a short trail on steep ground can be off by a few tens of feet. Closures change: check the forest's own site before you go.