White River National Forest · Colorado

Wilson Mesa-Sleepy Cat Peak

11 mi of trail, end to end · native material surface · trail No. 1800 · trail class 3 · typical grade trail_grade · tread 18-24 inches wide · hiking, horse

Begins at the forest's mile 0, 40.1921, -107.5645 - no trailhead mapped Drive to where the trail begins

Morapos Trailhead the Forest Service's write-up

The Morapos Trailhead offers dispersed camping in the northernmost section of the White River National Forest, in an area adjacent to the Routt National Forest. The site offers access to a roadless section that is popular with hunters including the Wilson Mesa/Sleepy Cat Peak Trail (#1800) and the Salt Park Trail (#1805) .

Please Leave No Trace.

Restrictions The Morapos Trailhead area is very busy during elk hunting season. Please use as little of the graveled surface as possible, and locate camp kitchens, etc., on the grass adjacent to your vehicle.

This trailhead on fs.usda.gov

Waddle Peak #2210 the Forest Service's write-up

The Waddle Peak trail is 4.4 miles long. It begins at Wilson Mesa / Sleepy Cat Peak Trail #1800 and ends at the Forest Boundary.

This hike on fs.usda.gov

Wilson Mesa/Sleepy Cat Peak #1800 the Forest Service's write-up

The Wilson Mesa/Sleepy Cat Peak Trail is 10.9 miles long and offers access to a roadless section that is popular with hunters. The trail heads in an easterly direction through open meadows and aspen. After .5 mile, it drops into a fork of Morapos Creek and climbs up a ridge top to the Wymore Lake Trail junction. The trail then drops

into the main fork of Morapos Creek, crosses it, and again climbs a small ridge before dropping gradually into the east fork of Morapos Creek. After following this intermittent stream about 3/4 mile, the trail leaves the bottom and switchbacks up to a bald ridge, then through aspen stands to Wilson Mesa.

From Wilson Mesa, the Elk Head Mountains stand out to the north and Axial Basin to the west. The trail now turns south following the divide between Morapos Creek and Pine Creek for 3 miles emerging in the west end of Salt Park where it junctions with the Salt Park Trail # 1114 .

It begins at the Morapos Trailhead and ends at Forest Road 299.

This hike 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.