White River National Forest · Colorado
Picket Pin Lily Pond
7.9 mi of trail, end to end · native material surface · trail No. 1811 · trail class 3 · typical grade trail_grade · tread 18-24 inches wide · hiking, horse, bike
Trailhead Lily Pond / Picket Pin #1811 Drive there
Lily Pond / Picket Pin #1811 the Forest Service's write-up
The Lily Pond / Picket Pin Trail is 8.3 miles long. The trail connects Rio Blanco County Road 8 with the Trappers Lake Road (Forest Road 205) by way of the Chinese Wall Trail and Picket Pin Park. The Lily Pond Trail climbs 4.5 miles through stands of aspen, open parks and scattered patches of spruce, fir and dead spruce. The Picket Pin end of the trail leaves from Forest Road 205, where it follows Picket Pin Creek for 2 miles before angling to meet the east end of Picket Pin Park.
This hike on fs.usda.gov
Every trail in White River 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.
