Marvine Trail - Steamboat Springs, CO

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Marvine Trail


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The Marvine Trailhead is located at the end of Marvine Creek Road. Heading south out of the parking lot, vistitors enter the Wilderness about 1/2 mile up the trail. After following Marvine Creek through a narrow valley for 1/2 mile, visitors break out into wide grassy meadows flanked by aspen and spruce-fir to Slide Lake, four miles above the trailhead. Visitors ford the creek at Slide Lake, as the valley narrows with the Flat Tops plateau towering up to 2000 feet above the valley floor.

The meadows have changed to small parks in between stands of aspen and mixed conifers. Six miles from the trailhead, guests reach lower Marvine Lake. The trail again fords the stream and follows the east side of the lake to upper Marvine.

Undeveloped campsites are available along both lakes but make sure camps are at least 100 feet from the lake. Once above the lakes, visitors enter a spruce-fir forest and climb rapidly for four miles onto the Flat Tops plateau. The Oyster Lake Trail is 11.5 miles from the origin of the Marvine Trail.