White River National Forest · Colorado
Wagon Wheel
0.3 mi of trail, end to end · native material surface · trail No. 9121 · trail class 2 · typical grade trail_grade · tread 18-24 inches wide · hiking, bike
Begins at the forest's mile 0, 39.6020, -106.0424 - no trailhead mapped Drive to where the trail begins
Wagon Wheel TH #2049 the Forest Service's write-up
The Wagon Wheel trail begins at Forest Road #644 north of Heart Lake and ends at Coffee Pot Road #600. The trail leads through an open meadow with spruce and fir on either side down to Wagonwheel Creek in a northwesterly direction.Cross the creek and the trail will turn to follow the creek down the valley into a meadow, be sure to look for the rock cairns that mark the trail through the meadow.Eventually the creek descends rapidly into a canyon of spruce/fir forest and the trail follows from the slope above.While crossing the steep slope beautiful views of Wagonwheel Creek and Shingle Peak are in the distance. The trail will descend through aspen, and then spruce and fir, descending steeply until it ends at Budges Resort.
Restrictions See Flat Tops Wilderness Regulations
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.
