Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · Colorado, Wyoming
Turtle Rock Loop
2.9 mi of trail, end to end · Turtle Rock TH: 2.8 mi loop in the Service's write-up · native material surface · trail No. 793 · trail class 3 · typical grade 12-20% · tread 18-24 inches wide · hiking, bike
Begins at the forest's mile 0, 41.1609, -105.3762 - no trailhead mapped Drive to where the trail begins
Turtle Rock TH 2.8 mi loop · the Forest Service's write-up
$5/vehicle/day · season late-Spring to early-Fall
A very popular trail within the Vedauwoo Day Use Area. The easy trail winds around Turtle Rock, an icon Sherman Granite outcropping. Hikers will enjoy a 2.8 mile loop winding around the boulders, slabs and cliffs of the Vedauwoo rock formation as well as beaver ponds. Moose, beavers, and many birds are known to frequent the trail. The vegetation is a variety of Limber pine, Engleman spruce, Douglas fir, and Aspen . Animals must be leashed on this trail.
This hike on fs.usda.gov
Every trail in Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest
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.
