Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests · Colorado

Dry Saint Vrain

0.4 mi of trail, end to end · native material surface · trail No. 920 · trail class 2 · typical grade 12-20% · tread 18-24 inches wide · hiking, horse, bike

Trailhead Dry Saint Vrain Trailhead Drive there

Dry Saint Vrain Trailhead the Forest Service's write-up

The Dry Saint Vrain Trailhead provides access to the Dry Saint Vrain Trail. Four-wheel drive is recommended and parking is limited.

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Dry Saint Vrain Trail (#920)

Length: 1.5 miles to North Saint Vrain Creek. DISTANCE IS ONE-WAY.

Elevation: 7,440 feet at Dry Saint Vrain Trailhead (TH); 6,600 feet at North Saint Vrain Creek.

Trail Description: Dry Saint Vrain Trail leads gradually downhill for about a mile, as it roughly follows an intermittent tributary of the North Saint Vrain Creek. The last stretch of trail to North Saint Vrain Creek drops to the creek bed. North Saint Vrain Creek runs heavy in the spring and early summer or during periods of driving rain and may be difficult or impossible to cross.

Latlong: 40.187603; -105.414

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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.